STAT+: Sanders blames food companies for diabetes epidemic
Sen. Bernie Sanders blames the rise of diabetes on the rise in the obesity rate. And he blamed the rise in obesity on the food industry.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a new corporate target: the food industry.
Sanders held a hearing today on diabetes that implicated both the food and drug industries in what the American Diabetes Association estimates is a $413 billion annual cost to the health care system. That’s up 27% over the past six years, he said, and he warned that new weight loss drugs could send health care spending to the stratosphere.
But the food industry received more attention, especially from Sanders, than the drugmakers and drug middlemen.
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