Food has been front and center in the Make America Healthy Again movement, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to solve chronic disease in the United States. That’s why forthcoming federal guidance on nutrition could draw extra attention this time around, even as a massive reorganization of the nation’s health workforce unfolds.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans come out every five years, jointly framed in their final form by federal health and agriculture agencies. The next set is due by December, a year after an outside committee of academic experts reviewed scientific evidence and filed an advisory report.
But on Thursday Kennedy fired a shot at the advisory committee’s report, traditionally the basis of influential government recommendations.
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