Dr. Shawn Baker

“So 95% of the people that sit on the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Panel today, for this next one when they're going to come up for the 2025 guidelines, all have fin…”

Baker claims 95% of the panel members writing the 2025 U.S. Dietary Guidelines have financial ties to processed food companies.

“If meat caused cancer, most people would have cancer. 95 plus percent of the population on earth eats meat.”

Baker argues that because most people eat meat and most people don't get cancer, meat cannot cause cancer.

“the FDA for new drug, for new drug approvals, it's like 65% of that budget comes from the pharmaceutical industry itself. So they're like, they're paying to re…”

Baker claims about 65% of the FDA's new-drug-approval budget comes from pharmaceutical industry user fees.

“we spend $4.3 trillion a year on health care in this country, and what do we get for it? We've got one of the sickest populations in the world. Our life expect…”

Baker states the U.S. spends $4.3 trillion annually on health care while life expectancy is currently declining.

“by the time they're eight years old the average eight-year-old has eaten more sugar than somebody would have eaten in their entire life you know and?”

Baker claims the average 8-year-old today has consumed more sugar than a person would have eaten in an entire lifetime around 150 years ago.

“The results in the ultra-processed DGA menu that was created, 91% of the kilocalories were from ultra-processed food or NOVA Category 4.”

Baker cites a study claiming a menu built to meet U.S. Dietary Guidelines can be 91% ultra-processed food by calories and still score as healthy.