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Allen Jackson: May 15, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now

May 15, 2025 | S25:E515

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: May 15, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | May 15, 2025

Well.
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Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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One of life's great mysteries is why the food
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That tastes good is often not the best food for you.
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I mean, after all, donuts, ice cream, and oreos
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Are far more tempting to most of us
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Than a plate of grilled chicken and broccoli.
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But the good news is that the mysteries are starting
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To get addressed, in part because of what we learned
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The hard way during the covid lockdowns, and in part
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Because of the new team at the white house, has made it
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A priority
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That we'd love to hear what you have to say
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About this new focus on health.
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You can send us a note at aj now.com.
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It's safe to say that there's a lot to discuss.
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From disease prevention to health and wellness.
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So tonight we're joined by the senior policy analyst
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On restoring american wellness at the heritage foundation,
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Jennifer galati. jennifer, welcome.
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Hi. thank you so much for having me tonight.
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Well, you've been in the health business for a while now,
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But health hasn't been the top of the news very often.
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And what's in the news is often very confusing.
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It's a diet for this or guidance for something else.
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Well, president trump and bobby kennedy have made this issue
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A priority.
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Are you noticing more interest
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In general regarding personal health?
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Absolutely.
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Those of us who have kind of been considered
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On the fringe for a little bit with our,
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You know, alternative cooking methodologies
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Now have the main stage, which is very exciting,
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Thanks to, robert f kennedy jr.
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And i think
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What's most exciting is that we've really seen
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A political realignment.
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And i wrote a piece,
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Speaking about the the message of unification that mha brings.
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It's i just came from a maha event here in d.c.,
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And you just
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Have all types of people that you would never expect
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To be sitting at the same tables together.
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And what i think we see in the mainstream press
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And the mainstream media is them really trying to attack
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That unity and keep us divided.
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But every event i go to, you know, heritage
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Is, is traditionally,
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One of the most conservative think tanks in the city.
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Yeah, we're we're across the table
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With people that maybe ideologically
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We would have differed on some things
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And that we're really coming
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Together over this message of health.
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So i think it's an exciting time politically, ideologically
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And just for all of us in this country.
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You know, i think our confidence in any government
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Direction on health, it took a big dive
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When anthony fauci presented
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His roller coaster comments on how to best handle covid.
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But now the media seems obsessed with secretary kennedy,
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But he sounds like he's pushing ahead in the right direction,
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Which is to get a more thorough information on all the issues
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That are lacking clear guidance publicly.
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What do you think of bobby's approach?
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I think it's great.
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You know, at the end of the day, he's calling for transparency
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And to restore the shattered trust that our institutions
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Broke, our medical institutions broke during covid
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And, frankly, have been breaking for many decades.
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But covid brought it all to light.
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The fallacies around nutrition.
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You know, this fear of fat which we should not have.
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There were people in the agricultural sector
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Today speaking, and that's really hurt their business.
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That's hurt middle america
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Because people have moved away from eating beef and full
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Fat dairy and cheese and things that are natural, right?
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Things that are whole foods that provide a lot of nutrition
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For these kind of frank.
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And what we call franken foods are highly processed foods.
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There's a lot of factors
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That contribute to the rise in and obesity.
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Processed foods is is a big one.
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So we have to take a multi-pronged approach to this.
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And that's what kennedy is doing.
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You're seeing him come together with brooke rollins at usda.
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You're seeing,
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Better communications across all governmental
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Agencies, even national security with our farmlands in china.
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So it's this whole of government approach,
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And it's a whole a body, holistic approach to health.
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Let's move to the pharmaceuticals
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And the president's recent announcement.
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But his executive order, the companies involved
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Will not be able
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To charge more money for medications
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In the us than they do in any other country
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Where they're sold.
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Listen to how he put it.
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The united states will no longer subsidize the health care of
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Foreign countries, which is what we were doing.
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We're subsidizing others health care to countries
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Where they paid a small fraction of what, for the same drug
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That what we pay many, many times more for
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And will no longer tolerate profiteering and price gouging.
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So now they have 30 days to comply.
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Translation americans won't pay any more than the lowest price
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Around the world
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Versus paying three times as much as others like we do now.
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Do you think this is really going to work?
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Well, it's a very trumpian approach, right?
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What it is definitely is america first approach.
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This is i see this,
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This executive order on pharmaceuticals
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As the same approach he's
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Taken to national security and defense, right, with nato.
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It's like america is getting ripped off in this deal, right?
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Nato countries weren't paying as much for defense,
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And they're not paying as much for pharmaceuticals.
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And america has been footing the bill for r&d.
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No. the case can be made,
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Maybe in defense that it's in our best interest.
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But why?
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Why is it in our best interest to pay more for pharmaceuticals
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Than than other countries?
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The fact is, too, though, that this is
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A very convoluted system.
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I'm sure
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Anybody who has had a loved one or themselves
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Have to go through
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The medical insurance system, medicaid, medicare,
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Whether it's government subsidized
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Or whether it's private insurance, it's a hot mess. and
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So we're still trying to figure out
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What this eo is actually going to do
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And how it's going to take effect. right.
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There's going to
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Be a lot of legal pushback, i'm sure, particularly,
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Pharmaceutical lobbying supported
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Agencies will push back.
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But it's it's really a tangled web.
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But you have these pharmacy benefit managers
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That profit off, so you have a lot of middlemen.
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He did mention that in the eo.
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He didn't mention,
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What we call pbms specifically,
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But he did mention the middlemen and cutting them out.
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And they all take a chunk.
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Right.
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So that that plays a part into it.
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Like i said, some of us policy people don't really understand
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How these how the medical system works.
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It's so entangled.
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I'm interested in something you wrote recently about how
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We should consider swapping meds for food,
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That the right diet can often prevent the need for more meds.
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Can you give us an example of that?
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Yes. in that article that i
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Wrote, i was specifically speaking of mental health.
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So again, this was a big conference today.
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Kind of a lot of people in the maha movement.
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But there's a whole panel on what we call, metabolic health
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And how metabolic dysfunction or the dysregulation
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Of the energy in our cells can really affect mental health.
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So, i really also see this as a, as a christian,
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As a christian approach to health, as this holistic body
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That we're not just treating symptoms,
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We're treating the physical, the mental
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And the spiritual bodies together.
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So through food, we can affect mental health.
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One diet in particular you spoke kind of about, it's
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Hard to decipher all the different
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Nutritional advice and the fads, but the ketogenic diet
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Has really been shown to improve mental health conditions,
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And that with the article was speaking to that specifically.
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Kids are often late.
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You know what i would call overdiagnosed.
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But a lot of people that have been through
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The system called a psychiatrist.
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So everything is now a pathology, right?
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You have a
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You have a boy that's 11 years old
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That can't sit in his seat for six hours a day at school.
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Oh, he's got adhd.
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Well, really, anybody who has boys knows
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He's just a boy and he needs to play.
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But unfortunately, the
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The treatment is treating the symptoms
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And not looking at the person as a whole.
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What's their spiritual like? life.
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What's their family like life.
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What's their nutrition life like.
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And that particularly with mental health, is really
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You have to have this holistic approach to it.
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You know, in reality, god designed us to heal.
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We want to learn more about how to do our part.
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Jennifer,
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I hope you stay with us for another segment
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And we'll talk about some of the
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Biggest health concerns we're facing.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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We're
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Back now with jennifer galati from the heritage foundation.
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She recently joined as the senior policy analyst
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In the restoring american wellness department.
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One change that's happening already
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Is they plan to take food dyes
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Out of products on the shelves now.
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Bobby kennedy has pointed out that red,
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Yellow and blue are made from petroleum based compounds,
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And the fda has previously said they're safe.
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Kennedy said, and i quote,
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If the food companies want to eat petroleum,
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They ought to add it themselves at home,
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But they shouldn't be feeding it to the rest of us.
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He also said that he's going to go after sugar,
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Which he says is as addictive as crack.
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Is this just the beginning of what they've got planned?
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Yes, i believe so.
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I mean, if we look at the past two weeks,
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The amount of exposure that health issues
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Have had in the media
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And the amount of stuff that's coming,
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I mean, it's hard to keep up with the trump administration
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Across all departments, but especially hhs.
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He's really blowing full steam ahead.
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I don't know if you saw his,
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His testimony yesterday in the house and senate committees,
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But i watched some of that, and i said,
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I love this scorched earth kennedy,
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Because he really took on i can't remember her name.
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She is the democrat from connecticut about the food dyes.
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And he, you know, she was pressing him on measles.
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And he said, listen, how long have you been trying
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To get food dyes out of out of food?
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And, you know, she he said, for 20 years, i did it in 100 days.
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Give me a little bit of credit.
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And he just really started to, you know, push back.
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Now that he's confirmed, right. he didn't have to,
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Kind of acquiesce so much.
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And i'm really enjoying this this a little more aggressive
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Side of of kennedy.
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And i do believe it's just the beginning.
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You know, it seems to me he's really bringing a science
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Based approach back to the forefront.
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He's an advocate for testing, for good data, for transparency.
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You know, one of the issues
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That's really become kind of a plague,
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I think, is the abortion pill, seem
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To have gotten pushed to market without fully being tested.
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And there's a lot of side effects and consequences.
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We weren't anticipating.
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Yes. so we are seeing now they're reporting that,
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There are a lot of more adverse effects
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Now, whether they were hidden.
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Right.
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And they knew them because there is
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Corporate capture going on in our industries.
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We do have paid for science.
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It's a fact.
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So whether that science has been biased or now
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We're just getting better
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Studies, either way, we're getting more transparency.
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About these medical devices,
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Pharmaceutical drugs, anything in the medical field.
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And that's what he's really calling for, is
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The gold standard science for it not to be bought
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By industry, you know, big what we call big ag, big pharma.
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We really do have monopolies in those areas right now.
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The pharmaceuticals. right.
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So i think we're going if we had a true free market,
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It would be different. we don't have that right now.
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And the food and agricultural businesses,
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So i think he's going to get those private interests
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Out of what's really public health.
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We had another health guest on recently who said that
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The big food companies
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Have deliberately tried
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To make food is addictive, as cigarets used to be.
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In fact, some of them were taken over by big tobacco.
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Have you worked with people
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Who needed help getting free from food addictions?
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I have, and i can tell you it's both a chemical
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And i really, when it boils down to it,
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I do see a lot of these as kind of spiritual sicknesses.
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I do see food addiction. i've struggled a little bit.
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I was on camera for a lot of my career in the fitness industry.
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And there were there was a lot of pressure,
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But i look back and i see that i had a,
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Misconception about who i was, who god said i was.
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And, you know, when
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I peeled back all the layers and i really dug in, it was
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It was that kind of thing that ultimately brought me out.
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But then god kind of led me through the proper steps, right?
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The proper healing.
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But so there are these different components of addiction,
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And it's food is just as addictive as alcohol.
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There is a chemical component, but there also,
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As we know, with any sort of addiction,
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There is a spiritual sickness going on. right?
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And our misunderstanding of how
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How much either god loves us or wants us to heal.
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And so we have different tools for that.
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We have, we have willpower, right?
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You need some of that
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With any addiction to break the cycle
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And to break the chemical dependency
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On whether it's sugar, it's usually sugar,
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Or the byproducts of sugar, insulin and carbohydrates.
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So that's kind of
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Tossing back to a ketogenic diet that reduces all of that.
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And reduce helps to break that addiction.
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But then you kind of have to address
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These other components of health
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That really break you free completely of the addiction.
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Right?
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Where the where the kind of spiritual desire to reach
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For the thing that is not good for you is turned around.
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But one last point that mr.
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Kennedy made was that he believes the media has done
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A very poor job of covering children's health issues.
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Mr. kennedy has six children of his own,
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And he thinks
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The media has stifled how the public is informed,
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In part
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Because of the massive tv advertising
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By the pharmaceutical and food industries.
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But whatever the reason, i think it's a good thing
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That the president decided to make it a priority now,
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And that places like the heritage
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Have their own department on the subject.
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Maybe you could tell us briefly what's on your agenda.
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Yes. one of the priorities for heritage,
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Is ending gain of function.
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And again, you said, is kennedy moving?
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You know, how quickly moving is this just the beginning?
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I mean, i think they've already moved
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On, that he's, past couple of days.
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They have come out,
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To try to remove the funding for gain of function.
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Not that we're removing the funding from investigative
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Science and progress, but there's trade offs.
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And we saw the trade offs very clearly with covid.
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So that is a priority.
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Really for heritage, too, it's we want to be the convener
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Of these kind of different interests.
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So within the maha movement, again, you have some people
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That are very opposed to vaccines,
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Or at least all the vaccines
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That we're giving our children introducing
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To them in their first six months of life.
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You have some people that are more focused on food.
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You have some people more focused on the food pyramid
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And the nutritional guidelines.
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You have a lot of people focused on agriculture.
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This touches every aspect of our life.
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And like, bobby has said, right,
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A healthy person has a million dreams.
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A sick person only has one.
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Health is the cornerstone of our life.
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And so if we don't have that right, you you kind of miss out
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On everything else. so we're really looking to help,
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Be a nice landing, particularly for people in dc, right?
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Because a lot of these people are coming from all over.
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A lot of these people in the maha movement
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Are moms in indiana, right?
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Or homeschooling moms that pulled their school,
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Their kids out of school during covid.
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And then you've kind of
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Got the hippie vibe culture from where i came in california.
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And you've got,
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Parents with kids in public schools, in cities.
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So we really want to be the convener of all these voices.
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And i think, heritage can really lead the way and,
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Helping people drive this, their message in their platform,
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Not only on the national level, but also back
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To their local communities and schools and families, really
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Even around the dinner table by the choices they make.
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Well, jennifer galati, thank you for your wisdom
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On how we can make ourselves a bit healthier these days.
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We appreciate your time.
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Thank you so much for having me and have a beautiful evening.
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You've convinced me to trade my oreos for almonds
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And that's no small feat.
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So we'll be back after this short break with some thoughts
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On how we can give application to this in our lives. now.
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On how we can give application to this in our lives. now.
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I'm grateful for the fresh approach
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Being taken
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By this administration towards better physical health.
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I'm all for eating right, exercise, getting rest,
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For closer inspection of the foods we eat,
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And taking steps that contribute to a healthier society.
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You know, if you're a christ follower,
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The biblical direction is really clear.
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When you make a profession of faith
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In jesus,
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Scripture tells us that the spirit of god dwells within us.
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So god no longer lives in a building built with human hands.
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He doesn't dwell
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In a special part of the temple or the church.
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He dwells in us.
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So christianity makes this assertion
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That no other religion in the world does that.
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The god we worship actually dwells within us.
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It's a remarkable thought.
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You know, the bible talks more
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About gluttony than it does drunkenness.
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That'll change sermon topics in most of our churches.
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You know, when god brought the hebrew slaves out of egypt,
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One of the first things he began to teach them
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Was how to eat in a way that would be promoted,
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Would promote health and wellness.
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Now we don't eat for righteousness anymore.
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What goes on our fork and goes into our mouth?
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Does it make us more or less godly?
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But it certainly makes us more or less healthy.
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Now i believe in a god who heals.
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I pray for the sick. i'm all for that.
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But you and i have to do our part.
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We've got to make personal, intentional decisions
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To eat with an eye towards wellness,
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And then we can invite the spirit of god
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To do what only god can do.
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We'll do that. i can promise you.
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For all of us, there's more reasons for hope than despair.
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Well, in a moment, we're going to be back with your emails.
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Stay tuned.
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Stay tuned.
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Yeah.
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I'd like to personally thank you
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For taking the time to be a part of this program.
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Make a suggestion if i may, visit aj now.com.
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There's an archive there of all the programs.
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You could even sign up for our weekly newsletter
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To keep up to speed on all the things
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We're doing as a part of the ministry,
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And maybe even recruit a friend to watch the program with us.
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It makes a difference.
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I particularly enjoy your emails.
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Your thoughts and perspectives do a lot to inform our show.
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Atia from ashland, alabama wrote, the volume of content
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Coming from this ministry is astounding.
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Please give your family our thanks for sharing
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So much of your time with us.
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As the battles come to a head, we're seeing god grant
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A miraculous deliverance in our day.
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Many of our christian brethren seem unwilling or unable
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To join in the support
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Of president trump in his quest to make america great again.
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Why is this?
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Well, he said, that's not a simple question.
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It's a complex answer.
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And i think there's a lot of things
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That feed that reluctance in the christian community.
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And i don't think we'll see it change immediately.
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Some of it goes to the way
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Our christian leaders have been educated,
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Some has to do with the great division in the churches.
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We don't longer as a universal
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Universally hold to a biblical worldview.
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We're making our doctrine up on our own.
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All of those things have brought fractures
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To the body of christ.
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But i can tell you
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This god is moving in the earth in the most remarkable ways.
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And if we'll continue to put him first
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And choose him with our whole heart,
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I believe we'll even see a new unity emerge
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From the people of faith.
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Larry p from oregon wrote in
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1939 there was a john wayne movie called stagecoach.
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In it, there was a banker that robbed his own bank.
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But he says in the movie,
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What this country needs is a businessman for president.
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Well, it took a long time,
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But we got one, and he's doing a fantastic job.
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Well, i'm great to have a businessman
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In the white house again, because it seems like to me
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We've had a lot of bank robbers there for quite a while.
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I want to thank you for watching tonight.
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I'm alan jackson
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And i hope to see you tomorrow evening as well.
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Good night.
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Allen Jackson: May 15, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now

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