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RFK Jr on Trump's diet: "I don't know how he's alive" (archive.ph)
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Kennedy said Trump had the most "unhinged" diet of the administration officials.

"The interesting thing about the president is that he eats really bad food, which is McDonald's, and, you know, candy and Diet Coke. He drinks Diet Coke at all times," Kennedy said. "He has the constitution of a deity. I don't know how he's alive, but he is."

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[–] 79 points 8 months ago (15 children)

The health secretary was also open about his dietary supplement routine — but he warned that he shouldn’t be seen as a pinnacle for what others should take. In response to Miller's question, Kennedy said he takes Vitamin D, quercetin, zinc, magnesium, Vitamin C and “a bunch of other stuff.” How does he choose which supplements to take? In a relatable way — and one that’s not necessarily medically advised. “My method is I read an article about something, you know, and I get convinced that, oh, I gotta have this stuff,” he said. “And then I get it and then six months later I’m still taking it. I don’t remember what the article said. So, I end up with a big crate of vitamins that I’m taking, and I don’t even know why.”

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  • [–] 71 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    “My method is I read an article about something, you know, and I get convinced that, oh, I gotta have this stuff,” he said. “And then I get it and then six months later I’m still taking it. I don’t remember what the article said. So, I end up with a big crate of vitamins that I’m taking, and I don’t even know why.”

    This is the guy in charge of our entire health system

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Our health system is a bunch of VCs funding startups trying to jam more AI into it, even if it has to be perpendicular to the other AIs. This is hot on the heels of the same thing with blockchain. I think the big crate fits.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    What really jumped out is fucking vitamin C. It's an absolutely pointless supplement for people who aren't on sea voyages in the 16th century. Just eat a raw orange or something.

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago

    Vitamin C is abundant in leafy greens too. Like, it's so difficult to have a vitty C shortage that scurvy was completely unknown in all human records until we started making long voyages without fresh vegetables

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Vitamin C degrades too easily. Just by shaking an orange a little too much you destroy most of its vit C.

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