On Tuesday, the duration of an appearance in “Jesse Watters Watters” of Fox News Channel, the Secretary of Human Health and Services, Robert Kennedy Jr., commented on the decrease in testosterone levels among young men in the United States.
Watters: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is here.
Very well, secretary, I don’t know if you can see, but I have a small corridor of snacks by my side here on the set. We have hot hot cheetos, we have skittles, we have Trx, Froot Loops, everything.
Now, Gutfeld made a point in “The Five” today. He said that when I was little, I ate breakfast loops every day, and I went well. Now, I would say it came out like a maniac. It is hyperactive and upset. But does it have a point? What are these food dyes doing to children, especially?
Kennedy: Well, if you look at Froot Fruit Loops 20 years ago, it was very, very different from what it is today. And today we use chemicals in Froot loops that are prohibited in virtuaxy in all countries of the world.
So, if you buy Froot loops today in Canada, it is made with vegetable dyes. If you buy it here in the United States, it is made with oil synthetic.
And as I said in that clip, nobody moves to eat oil. So, when we get used to meeting with food companies, I told my staff, you know, if they want to eat oil, they should go to their food at home. They are not feeding it with Americans who without knowledge, without their consent.
And today, we announce that we are going to get it out of the food. So there are nine dyes, Jesse, two of them are going to ban immediacy, orange B and red dye 2. We will accelerate the elimination of red dye 3, so we will take it less than one year and the other. We hope to get them out of all the food and that is just the beginning.
I mean, one of the problems is that science about these additives has been systematically suppressed for 30 years because the industry has directed this agency. And we are getting rid of all those conflicts. We have got rid of most of them, and we are going to do real sciences, and we are going to do science precisely about the problems that matters to Americans, make sure children receive foods that are not poisonous.
The food that our children are eating today is not really food. They are substances similar to food, and some of them were made in oil refineries, and we need to give our children real food again.
We have the greatest load of chronic diseases in any country in the world. When my uncle was president, three percent of Americans had chronic diseases. Today is 60 percent. Seventy -four percent of our children cannot qualify for military service.
We have fertility rates that are simply spiral. A teenager today, an American teenager has less testosterone than a 68 -year -old man. Sperm counts have dropped 50 percent. And we are also arriving at Puberty at age six.
Watters: Wait, wait. Does an American teenager have less testosterone than a 68 -year -old man?
Kennedy: That is correct. Testosterone levels have fallen 50 percent of historical levels. And, you know, and that is a problem, and it is an existential problem, but it is only, that is only when we have obesity that is out of the lists.
Again, when my uncle was president, we had 11 percent of the children who had obesity. Today, 74 percent of Americans are obese or overweight. And you know, in Japan, it is three percent, so you know, and that is because it pays attention to what they are feeding children in school.
Watters: Yes, the Japanese are very thin, except Sumo’s fighters. Those people are not so thin.