{"id":21608,"date":"2025-09-10T08:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=21608"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:59:59","slug":"rfk-jr-s-plan-to-make-our-children-healthy-again-is-another-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=21608","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr.&#8217;s plan to &#8216;Make Our Children Healthy Again&#8217; is another miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>In his official bid to \u201cMake Our Youngsters Wholesome Once more,\u201d Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falls in need of any stable recreation plan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Launched Tuesday, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-MAHA-Strategy-WH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Kennedy\u2019s report<\/a><span>\u2014detailing how the Trump administration plans to sort out issues like meals advertising and marketing to kids, pesticides, and meals dyes\u2014appears to lack any precise roadmaps, solely promising to \u201cdiscover\u201d these points.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image-captioned width-xl align-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as President Donald Trump listens at an event to promote his proposal to improve Americans' access to their medical records in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein)\" class=\"width-xl\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.dailykos.com\/images\/1462700\/large\/AP25211762479891.jpg?1753993956\" title=\"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as President Donald Trump listens at an event to promote his proposal to improve Americans' access to their medical records in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein)\"\/><figcaption>President Donald Trump sits beside Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cHHS and FTC, together with different related businesses, will discover the event of potential business pointers to restrict the direct advertising and marketing of sure unhealthy meals to kids, together with by evaluating using deceptive claims and imagery,\u201d the report reads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However based on Marion Nestle, New York College professor emerita of vitamin, meals research, and public well being, the report doesn\u2019t have a lot substance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe report appears to twist itself into knots to make it clear that it&#8217;ll not be infringing upon meals firms,\u201d Nestle <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/kids-health\/kennedys-new-maha-report-outlines-steps-improve-kids-health-short-spec-rcna223893\" target=\"_blank\">said in an email<\/a><span> to NBC Information. \u201cMAHA has a lot bipartisan assist. This was the time to control meals advertising and marketing to youngsters \u2014 not \u2018discover.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She went on to say that the report is \u201cin need of specifics and weak on regulatory actions,\u201d echoing an analogous sentiment from professionals when the preliminary report leaked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kennedy <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/8\/18\/2339040\/-Make-America-Healthy-Again-Only-if-Big-Ag-is-cool-with-it\" target=\"_blank\">was given flack<\/a><span> for his flip-flop method to widespread meals pesticides like glyphosate and atrazine. Whereas he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rfkjr\/posts\/2667897973536935\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">used to refer<\/a><span> to pesticide big Monsanto\u2014now owned by Bayer\u2014as his \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Lex_Luthor\" target=\"_blank\">Lex Luther<\/a><span>,\u201d the brand new report means that these chemical substances may reside to see one other day.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span><strong>Associated |\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/9\/7\/2341838\/-Republicans-who-confirmed-RFK-Jr-now-worried-he-might-be-a-nut-job\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Republicans who confirmed RFK Jr. now worried he might be a nut job<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span>\u201cEPA, partnering with meals and agricultural stakeholders, will work to make sure that the general public has consciousness and confidence in EPA\u2019s pesticide strong assessment procedures and the way that pertains to the limiting of danger for customers and most of the people and informs continuous enchancment,\u201d Kennedy\u2019s report mentioned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And whereas the report doesn\u2019t explicitly focus on SSRIs, that are used to deal with melancholy, Kennedy <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/factpostnews.bsky.social\/post\/3lyghcdzdy42s\" target=\"_blank\">said during a press conference<\/a><span> Tuesday that the Nationwide Institutes for Well being intend to discover the right-wing idea that they play a task within the rise of faculty shootings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe had a number of weapons once we had been youngsters,\u201d Kennedy mentioned. \u201cYoungsters introduced weapons to highschool and had been inspired to take action. And no one was strolling into faculties and taking pictures individuals. There are lots of issues that might clarify this. One is the dependence on psychiatric medicine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/9\/9\/2342666\/-RFK-Jr-s-plan-to-Make-Our-Children-Healthy-Again-is-another-miss?pm_campaign=blog&#038;pm_medium=rss&#038;pm_source=main\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his official bid to \u201cMake Our Youngsters Wholesome Once more,\u201d Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falls in need of any stable recreation plan.\u00a0 Launched Tuesday, Kennedy\u2019s report\u2014detailing how the Trump administration plans to sort out issues like meals advertising and marketing to kids, pesticides, and meals dyes\u2014appears to lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2027,113,3521,1558,3520],"class_list":["post-21608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-children","tag-healthy","tag-jr-s","tag-plan","tag-rfk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21609,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21608\/revisions\/21609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}