Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. marked the first anniversary of the “Make America Healthy Again” initiative on Monday, highlighting a series of reforms he said were aimed at improving public health. Those efforts include reducing synthetic food dyes, reshaping the federal food pyramid, and issuing updated dietary guidelines.
Other MAHA achievements that the HHS is celebrating include lowering prescription drug prices, updating the childhood vaccine schedule, researching autism treatments, bringing back physical fitness, and withdrawing from the World Health Organization. -- 📺 Watch NTD News 24/7 on cable, broadcast, and streaming: https://www.ntd.com/watch
And Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. marks one year of the Make America Healthy
Again project, speaking at the Heritage Foundation.
Here's more from that event.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. celebrates the first year of
the Make America Healthy Again project on Monday.
He touts the reforms he initiated, including reducing synthetic food dyes, inverting the
food pyramid, and releasing new dietary guidelines.
You can summarize it in three words, eat real food.
And we took the politics out of it.
And we made science-based, gold standard science-based recommendations.
And these are recommendations that are going to keep us healthy.
Kennedy says his agency plans to remove all nine synthetic petroleum-based food dyes from
the food supply by the end of this year.
The Secretary highlights the health impacts of ultra-processed food and the importance
of diet in preventing chronic diseases.
The cause to our society are existential.
Seventy-seven percent of our children can no longer qualify for military service.
And most of that is diet-related.
And we need to change what we're feeding these children, or we're going to lose our country.
Regarding the healthcare industry, Kennedy says HHS is focusing this year on affordability
and transparency.
Prior authorization is now gone.
You will have an answer at point of care.
In other words, before you leave that doctor's office, you will know whether your insurance
company is going to pay for it.
The health secretary thanks President Trump for putting him in this role and initiating
the Maha project.
He says he has been screaming about children's health with nobody paying attention for 20
years.
I was censored and shut down, and I prayed every single day that God would put me in
a place where I could fix this.
And so for me, when President Trump asked me to join his campaign in August of 2024,
it felt providential.
It felt like the answer to prayers.
Other Maha achievements that the HHS is celebrating include lowering prescription drug prices,
updating the childhood vaccine schedule, researching autism treatments, bringing back physical
fitness, and withdrawing from the World Health Organization.
