Joe Rogan and guest Dave Smith are alarmed by deadly consequences of America’s fast food culture: "It's killing people"

Joe Rogan, aside from being one of the most influential minds in the world today, is also an emblem of physical health among men. A lifelong martial artist and fitness enthusiast, Rogan is a powerful advocate of the physical, mental, and emotional benefits of a healthy lifestyle.

This is one of the main concerns Rogan and his podcast guest and fellow stand-up comic Dave Smith had when the two met in a recent episode of Joe Rogan Experience. Smith went on a tangent of how frighteningly unhealthy Americans are today, with obesity on the rise fueled by the increasing number of fast foods in the country.

Smith said:

"Every single town I go to in this entire country has an Arby's and a Burger King and a KFC and like, they have [it in] every single town. Even when they have nothing else, they have every single type of fast food. And you look around and everybody's obese. Everyone's unhealthy."

On the topic, Joe Rogan said:

"It's killing people. It's killing kids, and it's making people way more vulnerable to a host of other diseases, including cancers. It's terrible for you."

Check out their conversation here (1:11:57):

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Joe Rogan quoting Bobbby Kennedy Jr: "77% of all American boys are not eligible for the military"

Listening more to the conversation, it seems it's not just public health that would be affected if fast foods and unhealthy lifestyles are not put in check in America - their national security might be at risk too.

Speaking further on the topic, Rogan mentioned that politician and public health activist Robert 'Bobby' F. Kennedy Jr said that more than half of American boys are unfit to defend their country because of health issues:

Joe Rogan said (1:13:12):

"77%, I think, Bobby [Kennedy] said, [73%] of all American boys are not eligible for the military. So they are unfit to serve because they are either obese or they have a host of these metabolic conditions that have come about from poor diet. From poison. From eating poison. Essentially you're slow-dosing your body with poison and sugar all day long and that's most [American] people. And we don't do anything about that. But then we try to regulate vapes."

If the army couldn't recruit men to the military, there would eventually be a scarcity of human resources, effectively dwindling the capacity of the US military to do their jobs. This may not seem like a big problem now, but if the fast food epidemic in America doesn't get addressed soon, it may become a point of no return.