"HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat down with Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren Tuesday evening and exposed the dirtiest trick in the American food system. He says corporations hijacked an FDA loophole called “GRAS” to quietly flood our food with untested chemicals—without ever proving they were safe.
And the consequences didn’t take long to show up.
In the late 1980s and early ’90s, something strange started happening in America. Chronic illness was on the rise. Obesity rates soared. Autoimmune diseases became more common.
It felt like the health of the nation was unraveling.
According to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., that wasn’t a coincidence. It was the result of a corporate takeover.
“At that time… the tobacco industry took over the food industry,” he said.
“By the early 1990s, the two biggest food companies in the world were R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris.”
The same companies that had perfected the art of chemical addiction through cigarettes were now running the food system. And Kennedy says they brought the same playbook with them.
“They began moving scientists from the endeavor of making tobacco more addictive to developing new lab ingredients that would make food addictive.”
That’s when everything changed.
What had once been real food—grown, cooked, and served—became something else entirely. A highly engineered product designed not to nourish, but to keep people hooked.
The health consequences were immediate. But behind it all, there was something even more insidious: the regulatory system meant to protect Americans had already been compromised.
“Those chemicals were largely untested because of the capture of the FDA by the food and drug industries,” Kennedy warned.
The public trusted the FDA. But the FDA, Kennedy says, had already been captured by the very industries it was supposed to regulate.
Then came the dirtiest trick of all.
Kennedy revealed how the food industry hijacked a decades-old FDA loophole—one that allowed a flood of untested chemicals into our diets.
It started back in the 1940s, when the FDA first began regulating food.
At the time, they made one reasonable exception: ingredients with a long history of safe use—like wheat, eggs, and dairy—wouldn’t need testing.
“When the FDA first began regulating foods in the 1940s, it exempted food ingredients that had been used for generations—like wheat, eggs, and dairy,” Kennedy said.
“They didn’t require testing for those.” But decades later, that narrow exemption was quietly weaponized.
“The food industry later captured that label and applied it to every new chemical they wanted to add.”
Instead of testing new additives, companies simply claimed they were “generally recognized as safe.” And the FDA, Kennedy said, went along with it.
The result? America now has more than 10,000 approved food ingredients. Europe? Just 400.
“In the U.S., chemicals are never safety tested before being added to food,” he said.
Some of those ingredients are derived from petroleum. Others mimic the flavor of strawberries or blueberries, without providing a single nutrient. And they’re not just empty calories.
“These chemicals hijack the brain and trick the body into eating more food while getting less nutrition.” That’s not just unhealthy—it’s unprecedented.
“We are now the fourth most obese country in the world,” Kennedy said, “yet for the first time in history, obesity is often accompanied by malnutrition.”
Think about that for a second.
“The people who are most obese are also malnourished. That’s never been seen before in human history.”
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localsal 0 points 3 hours ago
That's good info, but I believe the last 10,000 years of water usage is enough to convince me that the body knows how to most efficiently use water of any sort.
The main reason for only having distilled water on hand for drinking is that the chemicals in the water treatment process are not natural, nor is the entire water supply system safe. When I distill water I get a huge layer of crud at the bottom of the pan, and that is all the shit that most people drink - WTF???
The biggest debates I always have is the insane lie that "distilled water doesn't provide the minerals, etc". It is a lie because just calculating the amounts of each mineral in drinking water - which limits non H2O materials to Parts Per Million - is nano - NANO - grams. Nothing in tap water replenishes any amount of minerals.
Food (and non-water) is the main source of all the chemicals that get into the body on the daily. Food can have GRAMS worth of these chemicals, depending on how much is eaten, and any spices added are 10,000 times more weight than what would be in tap water.
The only things that cross the cell membranes are H2O molecules, and the only way for the body to get oxygen to the cells is through the red blood cells - which get oxygenated in the lungs.
I'm not going to say there aren't any overall body benefits to different practices, but trying to target specific things that don't use those things - like the liquid oxygen (still only exists at -180C or below.... not many households can store true "liquid oxygen" - the type that NASA uses - other names for things can be called liquid oxygen but it isn't the true chemical name) most likely won't do anything. Muscles using oxygen will only get that oxygen from red blood cells, and drinking oxygen does not oxygenate blood.
But if it works for you, don't change, just research.
As Sheldon told Penny on the Big Bang Theory, when Penny was going to buy vitamins, "You are just making expensive pee".