The deterioration of the American diet, characterized by processed foods and high fructose corn syrup, contributes to increasing obesity and poor health.

“look what's happened to the American diet I mean there are people now that don't even recognize vegetables in the supermarket there are people that only eat prepared food and so what we've seen is on the one hand you're talking about preserving health and all that but on the other hand the overall health of Americans is deteriorating obesity is greatly increased and has no sign of abating the diet of Americans loaded with high fructose corn syrup and diets that are disproportionate with prepared food”