In 1980, the US government developed daily dietary guidelines for adults.
According to the CDC, obesity in the US more than doubled over the next 28 years, from 15 percent of the adult population to 34 percent. Child obesity grew even more, from 5 to 17 percent. That was in 2008. Just last week, The Lancet published a report showing that now 42 percent of American adult females and 34 percent of American adult males are obese – and nearly 75 percent of American adults are overweight.
It's fair to ask what the daily dietary guidelines have accomplished, and whether we would be better off without them.
President-elect Donald Trump just nominated a man to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) who might ask this very question: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
RFK Jr is a controversial nominee for people who believe in science because of his opposition to vaccines. On the right, he's controversial because of his support for abortion. But neither side can doubt his commitment to making Americans healthier. It's all he talks about (except for the worm in his brain and picking up stray bear carcasses). We might disagree that legalizing raw milk and eliminating fluoride from water will make Americans healthier, but that's why he wants to do it.
The food industry is in a tizzy about his nomination and is discussing plans to oppose him. But when you hear "food industry" about Washington DC politics, we're not talking about organic spinach farmers. We're talking about big companies that make heavily processed snacks. They know he is a threat to them.
For this very reason, he might end up saving the US wine industry from a devastating blow the Biden administration has been trying to level.
To be clear, RFK Jr is no supporter of alcohol. He is a recovering alcoholic. He says he became addicted to heroin at age 15, and he inherited an addictive personality. His brother David died of an overdose. He goes to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings regularly and says he plans to hold them in the White House.
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