He had beforehand shared his ideas on wholesome diets by posting a previous interview he had with Conan O’Brien, the place he made a dangerous touch upon folks with weight problems calling them ‘cute.’
“Properly, you already know, we may very well be humorous about it as a result of fats individuals are sort of cute,” the singer mentioned within the previous clip, “however it’s the primary explanation for dying within the free world. There’s weight problems and unhealthy diets, you already know.”
He went on sharing his personal food regimen and way of life:
“I’m only a guitar participant, and I’m 52 years previous, and I’m sort of limping and over the hill, however my household solely eats what we kill ourselves. We eat venison and geese and geese and quail, and it’s so pure and pure. I’ve by no means touched alcohol, medicine, tobacco, or quick meals. My thought of quick meals is an elk, you already know.”
Nugent’s submit clarified that his views on the matter haven’t modified a lot over time, as he repeated the phrase ‘My thought of quick meals is an elk’ within the caption.
The singer has spoken brazenly about weight problems charges within the U.S. on completely different platforms as properly. In 2022, he harshly known as out on the difficulty whereas discussing former U.S. Secretary of Protection Mark Esper’s warning about declining U.S. army recruitment.
Esper wrote in a Fox Information op-ed {that a} small fraction of People had been match to serve within the army as a result of many had been obese, on substances, or had legal data. Nugent criticized mentioned folks by saying they had been “destroying [their] sacred temple with poisonous non-food with components which you’ll’t pronounce in parts that may sink the Bismarck.”
A yr later, the singer got here up with potential options to beat the weight problems epidemic, suggesting discovering a authorities company coping with the issue.
