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Allen Jackson: America's Health Crisis | Allen Jackson Now

May 27, 2025 | 20:7

In Nashville, Alan Jackson welcomes Carolyn Caballero, CEO of Daily Nori, to discuss America's health crisis. They address the country's high obesity rates, addictive nature of unhealthy foods, and the need to prioritize children's health.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: America's Health Crisis | Allen Jackson Now | May 27, 2025

Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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If you've been here before,
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It was probably for the great music.
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You can find it everywhere around middle tennessee.
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Even walking down the street
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Or catching a flight at the airport.
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But one of the best things about the south is the cooking.
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All of it.
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Country ham and biscuits, barbecue and cornbread
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All chased down by a big glass of sweet tea.
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It's the kind of comfort food
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That will keep your waistline growing.
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Well, this type of food baked into our culture.
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It makes you wonder,
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Is it even possible to enjoy a great meal
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And do it in a way that's also healthy?
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It's a hard question to answer when there's so much
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Conflicting information about what's good for us
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And what's not.
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So where do we go for advice?
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Well, that's the focus of our show tonight.
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Now that our health and our physical well-being
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Is being addressed
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With the emphasis on making america healthy again,
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Whether you agree or disagree with robert f kennedy jr
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On some of his ideas, he's now focused on
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What we all need to do to stay healthy
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Or to get healthy before it's too late.
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You've likely heard some of his comments
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On the health of our nation.
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60% of the country suffers from a chronic illness.
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77% are unfit to serve in the military.
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Americans spend 12 years of their life
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Dealing with some sort of disease.
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And among the ten high income countries,
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The united states ranked last in health care performance.
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Well, clearly it's time to pay more attention
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To our health and the health of our children.
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So we've invited someone in who focuses on this full time.
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She's the ceo and founder of daily nori.
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Carolyn caballero, welcome to our show.
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Thanks for having me.
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It's great to be with you, ellen.
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Well, as you know,
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I'm the pastor here at world outreach church.
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We host outdoor worship festivals
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In the spring, in the fall, and is a part of that.
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We have dozens of nashville food trucks come to our campus,
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And they show up with these oversize
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Cheeseburgers and pizzas and french fries and ice cream.
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All those good treats that we all love.
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I'm all for sharing a great meal.
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But somewhere along the line, americans
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Have become unable to figure out how much was too much.
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Yeah.
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Can you start by telling us
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How big a challenge we're really facing?
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Yeah.
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Well, i mean,
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You really mentioned this very, very well in your intro, but,
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You know, right now we're facing a very stark reality.
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74% of americans are either obese or overweight.
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And then really concerning and something that rfk junior
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Has talked
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About a lot that i really agree with is the focus on children.
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And now you're looking at the high 30 percentiles,
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About 38% of children that are pre-diabetic.
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So these are numbers we've never seen before.
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These are numbers that the way that i like to talk about it.
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This is a uniquely american problem.
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This is happening in other parts of the world.
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But so much of this is a uniquely american problem.
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And so we really need to go back
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And figure out why this happened.
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Get to the root cause
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And then, you know, provide solutions moving forward.
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It's clear that if the health care system was the
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You know, end all, be all, and the solution for this,
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We would know it by now.
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Now we have spent more than any other country
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Providing health care for the individuals and
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Citizens of the united states.
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And we have the worst results.
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And simultaneously, the health care system is the
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Largest industry and the fastest growing industry in the world.
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Not tech, not ai, but health care.
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So there's a lot of money there.
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There's been a lot of power there,
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And still is a lot of power there.
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And if this was something that we could drug or vaccinate
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Our way out of, we would know it by now.
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And so this is clearly an issue,
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That really stems from our diet and the environment as well.
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Right? it's the soil. it's agriculture.
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There's a huge part to play here in how our food is grown.
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Our meat is grown.
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But there's something that i think is really interesting
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To look at.
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And it's in 1980 when we got our new food
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Pyramid, which really,
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Focused on low
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Fat and high carbohydrate carbohydrate diet.
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And what has that gotten us?
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Well, if you look at the at the rates of obesity
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Since 1980, they've continued to skyrocket.
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So there's a direct correlation
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There that needs to be looked at.
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And, you know, we're hopeful,
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I think that the reality of what's going on right now
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From the top down is that there's at least
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A conversation happening.
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This conversation has needed to happen for decades.
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And the interesting thing, alan, is that traditionally,
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This would have been a conversation
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That democrats would have had.
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You know,
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We normally would have seen democrats
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Bring this conversation to the table.
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So there is sort of a political brilliance in trump,
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You know, adopting rfk, joining forces with him
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Over the summer as they headed into the election season.
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Because this isn't a partizan issue.
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It should not be a partizan issue.
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You know, children are children
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And we really need to look at why we are so unhealthy.
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So a lot to unpack here.
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Thanks for having me.
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And, you know, i think here you you hit it.
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There's definitely, delicious food
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And not all of that so healthy for us.
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But i want to just encourage
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The listeners
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And the viewers that there
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Was a lot of delicious food that is healthy and meat
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That is healthy, and ways to eat that are still delicious.
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So we can dive into that.
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But, you don't have to think
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That this is going to be some painful, awful diet is.
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And that's not it at all.
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Eating real food is actually delicious.
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Not only do you feel better, but it's
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Just absolutely delicious.
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I choose to believe you.
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You seems like food and nutrition is really become a
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Challenge.
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You you alluded to the food pyramid,
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And often to me it feels like it's more fashion
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That the government's dictating than just healthy science.
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And then we get new food labels with details on calories
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And carbs,
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And then we roll in some commercials everywhere
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That tout a big meal or a happy meal, or all the
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We can eat buffets.
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I don't see very many restaurants
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That are pushing kale and carrots.
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So outside of what rfk jr's doing with health
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And human services, where do we start with this? in our homes?
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Yeah.
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So where in the american family should start is
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And this is really challenging because this gets to a
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Much bigger problem, which is a cultural breakdown.
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But it starts with actually cooking, right?
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Actually doing cooking meals because you start there.
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That right away gets to the root of the problem
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Of so much of the highly processed foods.
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If you had, someone cooking, putting the kernel oils
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And all of these processed foods
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Into a pan and actually seeing what happens,
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In and kind of peeling back
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The layers of what's actually in the food,
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That alone would be enough to really change.
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Change some things for for american families.
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The first thing is cooking. and that's hard, right?
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Because the way that modernity is is it really works against
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Us, especially as women,
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To be cooking and to have that extra hour or two
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That it takes throughout the day to be preparing food?
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But that's the first thing. and,
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You know, this is a problem, that there is no easy fix.
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You know, this isn't something
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That you can just take
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A magic pill or, you know, have some some magic microwave meal.
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I mean, this is something that's a cultural issue.
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But where we start is we start with some simple steps.
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One is to cook more,
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But the other simple step is just to be really,
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Highly aware and educated around highly processed foods
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And to, you know,
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It's as simple as when you're shopping in the grocery store.
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Most of those products on the center
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Aisles are not good for you, and you can look at things,
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And i hate to pick on it, but it's so relevant right now.
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You can look at things like girl scout cookies,
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And those ingredients in there are not healthy.
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And so you have to start to, peel back
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The amount of packaged food that you're eating
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Because it really is wreaking havoc on not only your body
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And your weight, but your brain. right.
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And these chronic illnesses.
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So that's where we start, ellen, is we start around,
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Meal time, we start around cooking.
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We start around trying to avoid highly processed foods.
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To the best of our ability.
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That sounds like a good plan.
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Bobby kennedy has tried to emphasize
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That this isn't about politics.
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Listen to how he describes the mission.
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Our health should not be a political issue as i said to
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President trump the other day, there's no such thing
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As democratic children or republican children.
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These are all of our children, and all of us want to keep
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Them healthy.
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So if you could advise him directly,
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Where would you suggest that he start?
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Well, i think they're starting exactly where they need to.
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You got to start really with some of the lower hanging fruit.
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Like changing the government
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Funded programs like snap, right?
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Snap and wake programs.
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But you look at the government funded food
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Stamp programs and, not allowing those, those,
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That fund those funds to be used on things like soda.
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You know, soda is the number one purchase item
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On, on snap programs, and that alone is not going
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To cause a problem. and it get it perpetuates itself.
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So that's one place to start
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And that's, you know, pretty simple,
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That the government has control of from the top down.
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And the other place to start
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Are things like school lunch programs, which, you know,
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By volume, is the largest fast food restaurant in america.
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Are they school lunch programs, breakfast and lunch programs,
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And the families that are being served by these programs.
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Oftentimes, this is some of the only food
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That the child gets all day.
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And so it's incredibly important that
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When they're going to school starting around 7 a.m.
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And getting their breakfast
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And then getting their lunch at the school program.
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Think about this.
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You know, for a second here,
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You've got, you know,
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A young boy or young girl that 7 or 8 years old,
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They're going and getting breakfast.
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They're getting,
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You know, jacked up on a bunch of sugar and a juice,
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And they're eating all this processed food,
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And then you'd put them in a desk all day.
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You try and teach them mathematics and how to read.
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And of course, their brain is like on a roller coaster.
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And so it doesn't, you know, it just it doesn't make any sense.
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And so those programs are a great place to start.
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That's where they are starting.
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They directly impact children, which is obviously incredibly
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Important for our future. and it is nonpartisan.
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That's pretty black and white and simple.
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Should we have freedom of choice? absolutely.
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And i don't think that you, you know, take away the freedom.
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You don't take away these items.
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That's not what anyone is suggesting.
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You know, i think it was pretty funny
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In the confirmation hearing, rfk jr said,
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We're not taking away any of your items.
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You know, my boss, referring to president
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Trump, loves his cheeseburger, right? diet coke.
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No one's taking away these items.
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However, we do have to address the issue that we're seeing,
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And particularly with children who don't know any better,
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Their palates are getting trained to crave these things,
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And then they are stuck on a forever loop.
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With big food and big pharma. right.
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And that's what we've been on. it's not working.
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So we're kind of at a fork in the road
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Here and need to need to choose, choose our path.
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I agree, we have an opportunity for a better future.
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We'll be back with more
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From carolyn caballero in just a moment.
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And if you use the break to grab a snack,
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Make sure it's something like celery and carrots.
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We'll be right back
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With.
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With.
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We're back now with the founder
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And ceo of daily new carolyn carroll era.
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If you go downtown nashville, you'll see people
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Enjoying a wide range of foods and beverages.
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But it'd be hard to find someone munching on a handful of kale.
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So here's a question i've often
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Wanted to ask somebody with some expertise.
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Why do so many things that are
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Bad for your health taste so good?
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And why do the healthy things seem not so tasty?
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Well great question.
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A lot of the reason
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Why the bad foods taste so good is they're designed
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To be addictive.
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Right.
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This goes back to how the food r&d works
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And how these products are designed,
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Particularly packaged foods, but they're designed with salts.
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They're designed with sugars, they're designed
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With highly processed chemicals, frankly, that are addictive.
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And this goes back to when, you know, nicotine,
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The nicotine industry,
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Took a hit and there was, you know, widespread awareness
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That smoking wasn't good for you.
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Those companies actually invested.
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It's, on record. you can go check it out.
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Some of the biggest
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M&a merger and acquisition activity in history.
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The nicotine companies invested in food,
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And they worked to make food addictive.
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So there's a lot going on there.
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But food is created, in america,
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Unfortunately, with ingredients that just are not in food.
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Other places in the world.
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They're highly engineered ingredients
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So that you are addicted.
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So that's one of the reasons that it tastes
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So good in that it is so addictive.
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And i don't think that
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All healthy food has to be bad and a handful of kale.
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You don't need to eat a handful of kale.
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I mean, some of the healthiest
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Stuff you can eat is just a great mistake.
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You know, eat a great, great piece of meat and,
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You know, make sure that it's high quality.
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I always say, you know, go for quality versus quantity.
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You don't need to eat steak three times a day
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Or every night, but each to eating,
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You know, good meat a couple of times a week.
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Good eggs, you know, in the morning.
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I mean, these things are just. they're delicious.
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It's easy to eat and doesn't have to be, you know,
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You know, a diet full of bland, raw vegetables by any means.
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Actually,
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One of the healthiest diets, you know, that it's on record
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Is the ketogenic diet,
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Which doesn't really incorporate too many vegetables at all.
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So i think that
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What people find when they actually
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Change their diet and start to introduce things
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That are healthier, that,
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You know, it might take,
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You know, a week or so, but your body responds so positively
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And so quickly, and it's really is goes back
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To the miraculous nature of how we created and designed,
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The body is forgiving, in a sense.
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And when you start to change your diet, you can feel it.
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You can feel it. you start to, respond.
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You have higher energy.
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Your body,
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Is, you know, less bogged down with all of the chemicals.
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So, i think that actually the change in diet
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May be a little bit more intimidating than it really is.
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There's some,
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You know, delicious ways to change your diet,
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That aren't that aren't so challenging
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As it used to be, of needing to drink weird shakes
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And eat vegetables and reduce your calories like crazy.
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I don't think that's it.
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I think it's more
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So just redirecting what you're eating, to real foods.
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We've
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Got time for one more question, and i'm curious,
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Is it possible
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To train our tastebuds to enjoy the healthy food,
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Even if it's not quite like a hot basket of french fries?
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Yeah. well, absolutely.
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And as a mother, particularly one right now
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That's introducing foods to an infant,
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This is why children's health is so important.
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Because actually we train the palate
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When they're infants, right.
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Starting when they first start to eat food.
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So six months, nine months, you know, under a year. even.
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So, there is a way to train a palate
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So that you're not craving processed sugars.
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And as adults,
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If you start to change your diet, you will see
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A reduction in cravings.
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So reducing sugar from your diet, replacing it
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With things like great meats, why do i say great meats?
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And you know, you know, eggs and things.
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Because that protein will help with the, cravings, right?
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That will help reduce the cravings
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Because you're full from real food.
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So absolutely, you can train your palate.
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It's really important that we focus on children's health.
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So i mean, that's a really key part of this is that we can
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Get to the root of this with children first.
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So, big problem on our hands.
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But at the same time, you know, a lot of opportunity here.
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And it should be exciting for everyone right now
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Because unlike ten years ago,
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At least, we're having this conversation.
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And we have the ability as americans,
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We have the resources.
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We have the ambition.
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We can turn the dial on this.
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We can make a change on it.
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And i think that's what this is all about right now.
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Amen.
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Well, carol and carol, i want to thank you for your time today.
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It's certainly a subject we'll be revisiting
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If you come to nashville.
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We'll have you here on our set,
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And you can choose the snacks for the green room, i promise.
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Awesome. i'll be there, ellen.
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I'll be there in a few months.
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All right, well, in a moment, there is hope, and i'll explain
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Right after this next break.
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Right after this next break.
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I'm grateful for the fresh approach being taken
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By this administration toward better physical health.
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I'm all for eating right exercise, getting dressed up
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For closure, inspections of the foods we eat,
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And taking steps that contribute to a healthier society.
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Having said that,
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I would suggest that we don't stop there.
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We need to take some intentional steps
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That contribute to our spiritual well-being as well.
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My question for you is what steps
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Are you willing to take?
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What are you willing to sacrifice
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For your spiritual well-being?
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You see, spiritual wellness is not a one time event
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Or just a one time decision.
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It's a personal, persistent endeavor on a daily basis.
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You've got to have a personal reflection,
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A little bit of self-aware sureness,
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Some thought and intentionality
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About what you do and how you do it.
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The truth is, ungodliness is not a better way to live.
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It will not bring us greater fulfillment
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And more contentment.
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It won't make us happy.
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So i have a question for you.
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What if you and everybody you know, everybody
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That you put on your friends list?
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What if you saw them gain freedom,
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Move more fully into the kingdom of god?
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Well, jesus has made a way for us.
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He has rescued us
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From the dominion of darkness through scripture says,
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And he provides a pathway to greater freedom
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And fulfillment in his kingdom of light.
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So let's make it our daily cry to seek the lord.
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Seek his will.
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His purpose for our lives.
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Read his word every day.
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If we'll do that,
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We're on the right track to becoming spiritually healthy.
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I'll be back with your emails.
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Just a moment.
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Stay with us.
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Stay with us.
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Your thoughts and perspectives.
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We always look forward to your emails.
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We've got to read some on the air.
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Mary and wayne emailed.
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Thank you for the unvarnished truth
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That you speak from the pulpit at world outreach church,
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And also on your new program, alan jackson.
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Now, the program is a breath of fresh air.
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Each evening,
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Instead of watching news programs
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That we can't trust to report the truth.
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Well, marion wade, thank you.
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Our goal is to try to help you understand
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What's happening in the world through a biblical perspective,
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And then we can decide the best way for us all to move forward.
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Dixie emailed.
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First of all, thank you for your great program.
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It's so needed.
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I live in oregon, which is extremely liberal.
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Abortion pills are sold over the counter to anyone.
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We're overrun with drugs and crime is a sanctuary state.
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Yet our leaders are opposing kicking out the illegal alien
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Criminals, causing so much of it.
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Whatever happened to common sense?
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Well, i think some
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Common sense has come back to washington, d.c.,
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If we will pray.
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I trust it will make it all the way to oregon.
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And we will see what happens when a bit of truth comes.
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I think it'll bring freedom.
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Finally, kevin is from smyrna, georgia.
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I love your show.
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The only problem is it goes off too fast.
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Try pushing it to an hour.
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I bet you'd get more viewers.
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I wanted to let you know i watch alan jackson ministries too.
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God talks to me through it. way to go.
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Keep it up.
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Well, kevin, there's some dialog around expanding the show.
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There's a couple things we need.
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We'll need permission from the network
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And then the resources to do so.
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When those things come together
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And the lord says, yes, we'll move for the time being.
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Just watch it over and over.
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More than once to really get the message.
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