How America's Lifestyle is Making the World Sick
00:00:00.000 | we're starting to see it really catch up
00:00:02.200 | in lots of other countries
00:00:03.460 | as we export the American way of life all over the place.
00:00:06.460 | Like, if you go to Japan,
00:00:07.640 | the childhood obesity rate is, like, 5%.
00:00:09.740 | Here, it's, like, 5x that.
00:00:11.740 | Japan's a high-income country,
00:00:13.700 | but they have a completely different food system.
00:00:16.380 | They have a completely different relationship
00:00:18.020 | with nature and respect for nature.
00:00:19.740 | It's a very different culture.
00:00:20.840 | So when America exports their food to other countries
00:00:24.480 | and the way that we live,
00:00:26.160 | the countries seem to be getting sicker.
00:00:27.980 | But we are uniquely one of the sickest countries in the world,
00:00:31.300 | because I feel like we are the epicenter
00:00:32.920 | of "technological progress,"
00:00:35.800 | and we're moving away from nature
00:00:38.240 | at one of the fastest paces, I think, of any country.
00:00:41.940 | And so because of that,
00:00:42.940 | we're sort of the leading edge of sickness,
00:00:45.140 | but we do see it happening all over the world.