NEW POST: RFK Jr. may lead health policy

Here's a food policy reform agenda that deserves everyone’s support

Let’s hope an administration unattached to the status quo can make progress where others have failed.

Recent news that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may lead health policy in a second Trump administration has generated understandable concern among medical professionals, particularly given his history of spreading misinformation about vaccines and other public health issues. However, as an integrative medicine physician focused on helping patients achieve optimal health, I find myself intrigued by one specific aspect of Kennedy's proposed agenda: reforming America's food system.

In a recent Wall Street Journal essay, former New York City health commissioner Thomas Farley and former director of the CDC Tom Frieden outlined how Americans' unhealthy diets reflect a slew of health policy choices that the new administration will have control over, including how foods are designed, sold, and marketed. They urge RFK Jr. and Trump to take on “Big Food” in specific areas where they themselves have previously tried and failed.

I absolutely support those efforts.