KFF Health News 89d ago

Top Trump health officials Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mehmet Oz visited Miami’s Nicklaus Children’s Hospital on Monday to advance the Make America Healthy Again movement. Florida is an early adopter of the administration’s farm-to-hospital program. The idea is that fresh food improves patients’ health and recovery and can help them reduce chronic disease. But MAHA’s food goals can contradict advice from groups such as the American Heart Association, which advises Americans to shift from meat to plant-based proteins and choose fats from sources such as nuts and seeds. Meanwhile, when it came to addressing a major public health threat facing the state, the event hosts shut down a question by reporter Daniel Chang of KFF Health News about Florida’s growing measles outbreak.