President Donald Trump’s new secretary of HHS offers Americans a generational opportunity to reinvigorate the nation’s health.
The confirmation of America’s new Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., offers a generational opportunity to reinvigorate the nation’s health before the twin epidemics of obesity and chronic disease become endemic.
In our new book, Fat And Unhappy: How “Body Positivity” Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself), we explain how the food and pharmaceutical industries have preyed on the ignorance and emotional baggage of obesity to profit off a nation left chronically fat, sick, and depressed. Simply put, Americans are eager to be happy and healthy but don’t know how, and corporate America would like to keep it that way.
“If I’m given the chance to fix the chronic disease crisis and reform our food production, I promise that within two years we will watch the chronic disease burden lift dramatically,” Kennedy said in his Phoenix endorsement speech of then-Republican nominee Donald Trump. “We will make Americans healthy again.”
Now, Kennedy, confirmed as HHS secretary on Thursday, has that chance. Here are five things we believe Kennedy should do immediately. […]
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