President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to helm the Department of Health and Human Services has said he wants sweeping changes to how the United States approaches health and food, going so far as to suggest that the Food and Drug Administration should eliminate its nutrition operations.
But the agency may be more aligned with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goals than he’s made it seem.
Just one day after Trump announced Kennedy as his pick for HHS secretary, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf published an op-ed in STAT calling for action on diet-related chronic diseases — an area that Kennedy has emphasized.
