The new activity to” Make America Healthy Once” is very popular.
Americans were three times as likely to have a positive view of the MAHA movements as opposed to having either a “very” or” somewhat unpleasant” mind, according to a recent YouGov poll released last year. Even though there were significant differences between the views of Kennedy himself, Americans overwhelmingly support the main pillars of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s proposals to reform the food industry as secretary of Health and Human Services ( HHS).
According to the surveys, the majority of Republicans and Democrats backed “requiring protein knowledge in federally funded health schools, banning some food chemicals, funding research into alternative and holistic approaches to health, increasing limits on the use of pesticides in agriculture, and banning processed foods from public school dinners.”
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Out of the 1, 064 people surveyed online between Nov. 19-20, responders were most united on guidelines to promote health training in medical schools, with almost 8 in 10 who said they supported the proposal. However, as outlined in my new book Fat And Unhappy: How” Body Positivity” Is Killing Us ( and How to Save Yourself ), U. S. medical programs are already failing to meet the minimum standards for nutrition classes set by the National Academy of Sciences. Just 27 percent of medical schools met the academy’s recommendation of a 25-hour minimum embedded in curriculums, according to a 2010 survey.
The public health establishment continues to support the low-fat diet as conventional wisdom, despite the controversy surrounding what students are taught about nutrition in medical school. On the other hand, Kenneth is right to denounce the low-fat dogma promoted by the food industry, even though the YouGov survey provided no specifics on how the potential new HHS secretary might change nutrition curriculums in higher education.
Americans from both parties interviewed by YouGov also support Kennedy’s endorsement for legalizing marijuana, with 58 percent of U. S. adults claiming to either” strongly support” or” somewhat support” the idea. Respondents were less receptive to the legalization of psychedelics for therapeutic purposes, the lifting of the ban on fluoride from public utilities, and the lifting of the ban on raw milk, as well as the restrictions on GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic for weight loss. Republicans and Democrats, however, both voted for 6 of the 10 ideas that were presented to survey participants.
But while many of Kennedy’s plans enjoy broad bipartisan agreement, views of Kennedy himself were sharply divided.
” Far more Republicans now have positive views of Kennedy ( + 63 ) than did last year, while most Democrats now say they dislike him (-41 )”, YouGov reported.
According to a Federalist analysis, Kennedy still faces an uphill confirmation battle among senators on the Finance Committee who have raked in nearly$ 7 million from the pharmaceutical industry over the past half a decade.
If confirmed, one of Kennedy’s first battles is likely to be President Joe Biden’s late effort to implement a$ 35 billion subsidy for the pharmaceutical industry’s lucrative new weight loss drugs. Last month, the Biden administration’s HHS unveiled a proposal to cover popular diabetes medications for weight loss under federal insurance programs, of which Kennedy has been a consistent skeptic.
