{"id":70773,"date":"2025-05-03T09:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70773\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T09:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:18:13","slug":"robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-the-confounding-politics-of-junk-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70773\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Confounding Politics of Junk Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has been undermining public trust in vaccines and overseeing crippling cuts to research across American science. And yet his \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d movement highlights themes more familiar in liberal circles: toxins in the environment, biodiversity, healthy eating. Kennedy has put junk food at the center of the political conversation, speaking about ultra-processed foods and their established links to chronic disease\u2014despite President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s well-known reverence for fast food of all kinds. Marion Nestle, a leading nutrition researcher and the author of \u201cFood Politics<\/a>,\u201d has written in depth on how money and politics affect our diet and our health, and about the ways that American research has been hampered by limited funding. She tells the physician and contributing writer Dhruv Khullar<\/a>, who\u2019s been reporting<\/a> on the American diet, \u201cIt would be wonderful if R.F.K., Jr., could make the food supply healthier. I just think that, in order to do that, he\u2019s going to have to take on the food industry, and I don\u2019t think Trump has a history of taking on corporations of any kind.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. I\u2019ll believe it when I see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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