* Guest: Dr. Scott Bradley, Author of the book and DVD/CD lecture series To Preserve the Nation. In the Tradition of the Founding Fathers - FreedomsRisingSun.com

* Ultra-processed foods tied to 124,000 premature deaths over 2 years in US, study finds - UPI.com

* Nicole Shanahan’s ‘Back to the People’ is coming to Blaze Media - Starting soon, the podcast will be available to BlazeTV+ subscribers on BlazeTV.

“Back to the People” features in-depth interviews and candid conversations with thought leaders, cultural critics, and the voices shaping the future of the country. Shanahan has a particular focus on the Make America Healthy Again movement and has been working tirelessly to help Americans live healthier lives.

* How Junk Food Took Hold in the US and What RFK Jr. Is Doing About It - ‘We have people who are obese who are at the same time malnourished, because the food that we’re eating is not nutrient-dense anymore,’ Kennedy said - Lawrence Wilson, TheEpochTimes.com

* “It’s not food. It’s food-like substances.” - This is how Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described the many manufactured food products that are high in calories but low in nutritional value.

* Junk Food Origins: Kennedy and others have blamed the glut of tasty but vacuous foods on big tobacco companies, which entered the food industry more than 60 years ago.

Beginning in the 1960s, R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, then the largest tobacco brands, began acquiring sugar-sweetened beverages such as Hawaiian Punch, Kool-Aid, Capri-Sun, and Tang and marketing them to children, according to a report from The BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal.

* “Tobacco executives transferred their knowledge of marketing to young people and expanded product lines using colours, flavours, and marketing strategies originally designed to market cigarettes,” a team of researchers reported.

* Ultra-Processed Food Addiction: A Little-Known and Growing Problem!

Nearly 70 percent of U.S. adults are either overweight or obese, according to a 2023 report by the federal government. Obesity rates have tripled over the past 60 years, while severe obesity has increased by a factor of 10.

Americans are not alone in this. More than 60 percent of Europeans are either obese or overweight, according to data reported by the National Institutes of Health. Worldwide, the prevalence of obesity has been rising for decades.