If you don't get enough vitamin B6, you break your chromosomes. If you don't get enough vitamin B12, you break your chromosomes. With maybe eight or nine of the micronutrients, there's pretty good evidence that deficiency leads to broken chromosomes. And chromosome breaks lead to cancer. My guess is that about half of the population's intake is too low in at least one of them.
Poor people are eating terrible diets, so they're really in trouble.
It's giving them heart disease, cancer, and perhaps harming their brains. We spend practically no money on informing people about the importance of a good diet for health. Some Harvard economists have estimated we would save 150 times more lives for the dollar if we put the EPA money into medical interventions instead of toxic interventions. And the lives saved on toxic interventions are fake lives as they are based on a whole series of wrong assumptions. Obviously, you'd see it as a step in the right direction to alter where the money is going.