RFK Jr.: We Need to Start Thinking About Getting Americans in Shape Again

EXCERPT:

KENNEDY JR.: "I mean, we are trying to get our kids — our kids now are spending seven hours a day on average in front of their screens, and we have to get them out. You know, my uncle in 1960, a month before he took the oath of office, he wrote an article for Sports Illustrated called 'The Soft American' and it was about how worried he was that we were falling behind Europe and other nations, and that America had been created by this beef jerky toughness, we have the toughest people in the world, we tamed the wilderness, we built this extraordinary economy, and now we were losing that. And today it is so much worse. 8 out of 10 of our kids cannot qualify for military service. The obesity rates are over 50%. Diabetes rates now, 38% of our teenagers are prediabetic or diabetic, and 77% of type 2 diabetes cases can lose their diagnosis or arrest the disease just by changing their diet. So we need to start thinking about getting Americans in shape again, and we made this challenge particularly for young people. We would love you to post your time, you know, your challenge on Instagram or TRUTH Social or X or TikTok or Facebook. And we are just challenging people to get up and get moving."