I am very very happy to be here today, I’m proud that President Trump has appointed me to the position of trust to carry out his agenda to make America healthy again.
This is the mission that President Trump and I hold in common and that has inspired a tectonic outpouring of enthusiasm and support from the American people.
It’s not difficult to understand why. Six out of every 10 adults have at least one chronic disease and 4 in 10 have two or more the US has the highest age standardized cancer incident rate among 204 countries in the world nearly double the next highest rate of the world prior to Cove in American life expectancy average 7.8 years that’s about 4 years shorter than comparable countries autism now affects one in every 36 kids I’m more than four-fold increase of her past decades 18% of teens suffer from fatty liver disease nearly 38% are diabetic or pre-diabetic and more than 40% are overweight or obese these conditions were virtually unheard of on my uncle is president 1960 to 1963 when I was a 10 year old boy the sperm counts and testosterone are down about 50% and American boys and our girls are reaching puberty 6 years earlier than historical Generations
Pharmaceutical interventions don’t always alleviate the problem
Our only solution to these issues seems to be more and more pharmaceutical interventions that don’t seem to be alleviating the problem and in many cases appear to be worsening over medication particularly in children, is growing issue more than 3.4 million American children are currently taking medication for ADD and ADHD and yet numbers continue to rise.
