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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Jasmine Fernández

RFK Jr. wants hospitals to serve more meat — despite cardiologists’ concerns

No Jell-O in sight — the plant-first dishes served at NYC Health + Hospitals, the country’s largest hospital system - (NYC Health + Hospitals)

Everyone agrees hospitals should serve better food to patients — but deciding what those meals should contain cracks open a much larger debate over the American diet.

“We shouldn’t be giving … people who are sick Jell-O and Cheerios and rubber chicken and sugar drinks,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at a press conference in March.

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