"Now Secretary of Health and Human Services--I tried to do innovative, nifty things 'cause I'm a person that believes in ideas.  One thing I did, you know I get a little embarrassed, sometimes upset, when I get up in the morning and listen to FOX News and some scientific report gets up and says, you know, this food is good for you and this beverage is good to drink and then about six months later another scientific report comes up and says that that food is bad for you.  You know what I mean?  Coffee's gone through three iterations.  It used to be bad for you, then it was good for you and then it was bad for you and now it's good for you again, especially for you drinkers.  It coats your liver.  [laughter]. 

"So what I did is I impaneled the world-renowned group of scientists from all over the world to come into Washington to study it.  And I says I'm going to be out and I'm going to speak to the American public about health care because that's my specialty, transforming health care, and I want to be able to tell them.  And I want to give you some really good [inaud. ?tidbits?], some information, ladies and gentlemen, you can go back use it in your family, your schools, your churches, wherever it is. 

"This group of scientists found out that the Japanese eat a lot of rice, drink a lot of sake, and they suffer fewer heart attacks than the British and the Americans.  They found that the Mexicans eat a lot of corn, a lot of tamales, they drink a lot of tequila, and they suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or the Americans.  They found that the Africans drink very little red wine and eat a lot of wild meat, and they suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or the Americans.  Our friends the French and the Italians drink large amounts of red wine, eat lots of white bread, and they suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or the Americans.  They found
that our friends the Germans eat lots of sausages, lots of fats, drink lots of beer, and they suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or the Americans.  Their conclusion was eat and drink whatever you like; speaking English is apparently what kills you.  [laughter, applause]."