Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Mark Hyman

Mark Hyman

American Becoming Behind Both Centuries Children Deficient Depleted Diseases Eating Foods Get Increasingly Left More Obese Processed Same Thought Time Were

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