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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Social Services, has undermined public confidence in vaccines and supervised research paralyzing research through American science. And yet, his movement “Make America Healthy Again” highlights the more familiar themes in liberal circles: toxins in the environment, biodiversity, a healthy diet. Kennedy put junk food at the center of political conversation, speaking of ultra -transformed foods and their links established with chronic diseases – despite the president Donald Trumpis a reverence well known for fast food of all kinds. Marion Nestlé, a leading nutrition researcher and author of “”Food policy“, Wrote in depth how money and politics affect our food and health, and how American research has been hampered by limited funding. She tells the doctor and the contributing editor Dhruv Khullarwas statement On the American regime, “it would be wonderful if RFK, Jr., could make food supply healthier. I just think that, to do this, he will have to take the food industry, and I do not think that Trump has a story to take societies of all kinds … I will believe it when I see it.”
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