Lambert here: Whenever I hear a conservative use the word “freedom,” I check my wallet to make sure it’s still there. So the catchphrase “health freedom” leaves me cold. Still, one way to look at election 2024 is as the wholesale rejection of the PMC by a very large voting population, health professionals among them. So here we are, and we’ll see how MAHA does. For example: “The [Means] duo has blamed Big Pharma and the agriculture industry for increasing rates of obesity, depression, and chronic health conditions in the country.” Tell me that’s not plausible (or worth a shot).
By Stephanie Armour, senior health policy correspondent at KFF Health News, has reported on the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Medicare, covid-19, abortion, and how politics and regulations in Washington, D.C., affect patients, providers, and the health care industry. Originally published at KFF Health News.
Within days of Donald Trump’s election victory, health care entrepreneur Calley Means turned to social media to crowdsource advice.
“First 100 days,” said Means, a former consultant to Big Pharma who uses the social platform X to focus attention on chronic disease. “What should be done to reform the FDA?”
The question was more than rhetorical. Means is among a cadre of health business leaders and nonmainstream doctors who are influencing President Donald Trump’s focus on health policy.
Trump’s return to the White House has given Means and others in this space significant clout in shaping the nascent health policies of the new administration and its federal agencies. It’s also giving newfound momentum to “Make America Healthy Again,” or MAHA, a controversial movement that challenges prevailing thinking on public health and chronic disease.
Its followers couch their ideals in phrases like “health freedom” and “true health.” Their stated causes are as diverse as revamping certain agricultural subsidies, firing National Institutes of Health employees, rethinking childhood vaccination schedules, and banning marketing of ultra-processed foods to children on TV.
Public health leaders say the emerging Trump administration’s interest in elevating the sometimes unorthodox concepts could be catastrophic, eroding decades of scientific progress while spurring a rise in preventable disease. They worry the administration’s support could weaken trust in public health agencies.
Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said he welcomes broad intellectual scientific discussion but is concerned that Trump will parrot untested and unproven public health ideas he hears as if they are fact.
Experience has shown that people with unproven ideas will have his ear and his “very large bully pulpit,” he said. “Because he’s president, people will believe he won’t say things that aren’t true. This president, he will.”
But those in the MAHA camp have a very different take. They say they have been maligned as dangerous for questioning the status quo. The election has given them an enormous opportunity to shape politics and policies, and they say they won’t undermine public health. Instead, they say, they will restore trust in federal health agencies that lost public support during the pandemic.
“It may be a brilliant strategy by the right,” said Peter McCullough, a cardiologist who has come under fire for saying covid-19 vaccines are unsafe. He was describing some of the election-season messaging that mainstreamed their perspectives. “The right was saying we care about medical and environmental issues. The left was pursuing abortion rights and a negative campaign on Trump. But everyone should care about health. Health should be apolitical.”
The movement is largely anti-regulatory and anti-big government, whether concerning raw milk or drug approvals, although implementing changes would require more regulation. Many of its concepts cross over to include ideas that have also been championed by some on the far left.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist Trump has nominated to run the Department of Health and Human Services, has called for firing hundreds of people at the National Institutes of Health, removing fluoride from water, boosting federal support for psychedelic therapy, and loosening restrictions on raw milk, consumption of which can expose consumers to foodborne illness. Its sale has prompted federal raids on farms for not complying with food safety regulations.
Means has called for top-down changes at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which he says has been co-opted by the food industry.
Though he himself is not trained in science or medicine, he has said people had almost no chance of dying of covid-19 if they were “metabolically healthy,” referring to eating, sleeping, exercise, and stress management habits, and has said that about 85% of deaths and health care costs in the U.S. are tied to preventable foodborne metabolic conditions.
A co-founder of Truemed, a company that helps consumers use pretax savings and reimbursement programs on supplements, sleep aids, and exercise equipment, Means says he has had conversations behind closed doors with dozens of members of Congress. He said he also helped bring RFK Jr. and Trump together. RFK Jr. endorsed Trump in August after ending his independent presidential campaign.
“I had this vision for a year, actually. It sounds very woo-woo, but I was in a sweat tent with him in Austin at a campaign event six months before, and I just had this strong vision of him standing with Trump,” Means said recently on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
The former self-described never-Trumper said that, after Trump’s first assassination attempt, he felt it was a powerful moment. Means called RFK Jr. and worked with conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson to connect him to the former president. Trump and RFK Jr. then had weeks of conversations about topics such as child obesity and causes of infertility, Means said.
“I really felt, and he felt, like this could be a realignment of American politics,” Means said.
He is joined in the effort by his sister, Casey Means, a Stanford University-trained doctor and co-author with her brother of “Good Energy,” a book about improving metabolic health. The duo has blamed Big Pharma and the agriculture industry for increasing rates of obesity, depression, and chronic health conditions in the country. They have also raised questions about vaccines.
“Yeah, I bet that one vaccine probably isn’t causing autism, but what about the 20 that they are getting before 18 months,” Casey Means said in the Joe Rogan podcast episode with her brother.
The movement, which challenges what its adherents call “the cult of science,” gained significant traction during the pandemic, fueled by a backlash against vaccine and mask mandates that flourished during the Biden administration. Many of its supporters say they gained followers who believed they had been misled on the effectiveness of covid-19 vaccines.
In July 2022, Deborah Birx, covid-19 response coordinator in Trump’s first administration, said on Fox News that “we overplayed the vaccines,” although she noted that they do work.
Anthony Fauci, who advised Trump during the pandemic, in December 2020 called the vaccines a game changer that could diminish covid-19 the way the polio vaccine did for that disease.
Eventually, though, it became evident that the shots don’t necessarily prevent transmission and the effectiveness of the booster wanes with time, which some conservatives say led to disillusionment that has driven interest in the health freedom movement.
Federal health officials say the rollout of the covid vaccine was a turning point in the pandemic and that the shots lessen the severity of the disease by teaching the immune system to recognize and fight the virus that causes it.
Postelection, some Trump allies such as Elon Musk have called for Fauci to be prosecuted. Fauci declined to comment.
Joe Grogan, a former director of the White House’s Domestic Policy Council and assistant to Trump, said conservatives have been trying to articulate why government control of health care is troublesome.
“Two things have happened. The government went totally overboard and lied about many things during covid and showed no compassion about people’s needs outside of covid,” he said. “RFK Jr. came along and articulated very simply that government control of health care can’t be trusted, and we’re spending money, and it isn’t making anyone healthier. In some instances, it may be making people sicker.”
The MAHA movement capitalizes on many of the nonconventional health concepts that have been darlings of the left, such as promoting organic foods and food as medicine. But in an environment of polarized politics, the growing prominence of leaders who challenge what they call the cult of science could lead to more public confusion and division, some health analysts say.
Jeffrey Singer, a surgeon and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian public policy research group, said in a statement that he agrees with RFK Jr.’s focus on reevaluating the public health system. But he said it comes with risks.
“I am concerned that many of RFK Jr.’s claims about vaccine safety, environmental toxins, and food additives lack evidence, have stoked public fears, and contributed to a decline in childhood vaccination rates,” he said.
Measles vaccination among kindergartners in the U.S. dropped to 92.7% in the 2023-24 school year from 95.2% in the 2019-20 school year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency said that has left about 280,000 kindergartners at risk.
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To answer a question with a question: Yeah, but what about unvaccinated kids catching the diseases the vaccines prevent?
As to organic food, which I tend to favor when available and affordable, producing it in adequate volume and at low cost present problems that will not be easily overcome. For just one example, resistance by food producers on economic grounds would likely present a significant obstacle. A study (Pimentel, 2005) estimates that a farmer’s rate of return is four dollars on each dollar spent on pesticides but is coupled with high costs of damage to the environment and human health.
The author concludes:
My understanding is non-organic methods reduce soil quality and negatively effect the amount of food we will be able to produce in the next few decades. Some estimates project there’s only enough soil left for 45-60 years. When that bill comes due, the effects will be all the more painful because we did not adequately prepare. We’re skimping on cost now so that BigAg can rake in more profits at the expense of the future.
a fenceline divides my part of the place from a 60 acre field where my rancher neighbor raised peanuts for 40 years, with wheat in the winter. chemag all.
a simple walk through on both sides of the fence proves the point…his soil is dead…mostly sand and stickery poverty weeds…mine is rich, and smells, and even tastes good,lol.
his side, even abundant fertiliser wasnt working to grow silage for hay(“high gear”, “red top”= a sorgum/sudangrass hybrid)…so he poured on a bunch of ammonium nitrate, and sprigged with coastal bermuda(go-to hay grass around here).
with lots of financial and labor support,and an hundred or more tons of manure, it would take me 50+ years to rehab his field to where it would grow native grass and a few native trees again…and only thn could one even consider growing food back there..like pecans or grapes or pockets of curcurbits(which do well here).
this bill will not be paid, and my grandkids, if any, will bear the burden.
and in answer to the tired old “but organic cant replace big ag”…this is pure propaganda, by big ag.
there is abundant research, including Cuba’s “Special Period” and stuff all over the UN Food and Ag group….saying just the opposite.
its the pricing mechanism that is at the root of change. uproot big ag, and spend all that jack on people like me,lol.
i grow more food in around 2.5 acres of raised beds than we can eat….or than i can even give away….and i’m still just half-assing it,lol
my issue is access to the market for such things. local grocery wont take it, because of reasons…city run farmers market is a joke, and not worth the time nor the fees, nor the regulatory tangles.
so i’m currently black market word of mouth farming…maybe next year stting up on side of road in my truck, just outside of city limits.
Thank you for highlighting this. Most people are not aware of the difference between industrial grown food and how we used to grow food. Most people have no awareness of the importance of soil health. As a result we end up having “talking points” conversations with no nuance or understanding of the real issues.
Without healthy soil, we have no food.
Big ag and their bought-and-paid for-quislings in government along with a totally brainwashed body politic celebrate their monocropped, fossil-fuel driven chemical saturation of our precious farmland that strips everything natural from the soil, and despoils the land, can prove how productive they are.
I was silenced on Daily Kos* for pointing out how toxic weed-killers, atrazine and glyphosate are. “Bad science”, they cried, “there’s no evidence that that’s the case” – in all the research sponsored by Monsanto I might add, and, except for the sick and dying workers who are certainly no experts on toxic chemicals. Right?
* embarrasing, but nedarly a decade ago before I discovered NC
Where are any of these murderers testing permaculture organic growing on a large scale? Crickets reply … How about backyard gardens? Did you see the one about regreening the Sahara by building a permaculture border of many individual plots on the southern edge? Ands the Swedish lady who was featured here last week.
I’ve taken my greener pastures move while I’m still alive. I pity the left-behinds who can’t make that choice.
aye.
poisons…ahem…poison things, including you.
i remember the old man who owned the mountain out back, when i worked for him occasionally.
he couldn tell the diff between yellowjackets(bad dudes) and bees(good dudes).
wanted me to spray some crap all over a beehive back there in an oak tree.
i didnt.
and yes, that mindset is dying out…but the local ag extension agent always seems to have ties to chemag.
even way out here.
theres ways to do things that arent near as harmful, but habit…and the constant whisper in the ear from official and unnofficial mouths of sauron…has their effect.
and the way the subsidy, insurance and finance is set up makes it near impossible for most smaller operators to switch to some better way.
the better way takes lots of initial work, time and investment…results wont show up next quarter,lol…ie: you will losemony…prolly big time.
you also wont be able to go to the same big ag marketplace…because pioneer or conagra or whatever doesnt want you.
you, instead, must go forth and find or create your own markets…incurring further expense and work.
but…well, yeah,lol.
first step is that big ag needs to be torn down.
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Yes! If you have a yard you should absolutely have a garden. My garden supplies 95% of my yearly vegetables with surpluses of tomatoes and cucumbers that I give away.
I give my surplus vegetables to friends and relatives that can’t have a garden. If you have a yard and no garden don’t come around asking me for vegetables. Either get off your lazy ass and grow some or go to the farmers market and pay for them.
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For the unfamiliar with the Means siblings, this might be handy. As a shopping guide, if nothing else, because they have stuff to sell (not cover by insurance.)
Thanks for the link, quite a lot to digest.
I’ve read Casey Means’ book “Good Energy” and it makes a lot of sense. Nowhere in the book does she plug any of her products. Pharma and the food industry have a lot of money to throw on misleading information. They will do anything to discredit MAHA.
I also listened to her book. From what I remember, the thesis is that the highly processed foods containing a lot of sugar of the modern diet harm our mitochondria, which impacts their production of ATP from ADP. (Our cells use the fact that converting ATP back into ADP releases energy as their source of power.) Then she lists a whole load of diseases which are caused by cells getting an insufficient amount of energy. She lists a panel of blood tests that can help diagnose the problem, and suggests getting a continuous glucose meter, to help one associate one’s blood sugar level with one’s actions. She points out that one can buy this sort of meter abroad without a prescription, but not in the US. She did mention her company could provide a prescription if your doctor doesn’t want to. She lists a whole bunch of foods to buy at the local farmer’s market. It did not seem like an advertisement to me.
Oh, and there was some stuff about seed oils being toxic too.
The book is her ticket to money, fame and relevance. She takes on some low hanging fruit truthfully but built her industry on her ideas that follow from it. Ultimately she will defend herself going forward and not any conflicting or new science that might emerge. Follow if you believe but don’t be naive about it.
So she self funds through what may or may not be snake oil, I’m not qualified to judge.
But the obvious merit of many of her arguments isn’t colored by Oligarch cash laundered through some NGO or grant program.
It takes money to have meaningful free speech around here and it has to come from somewhere. Maybe talking her book, maybe booking stuff so she can talk.
The only way to make America healthier is to give all Americans access to affordable health care.
Health care or medical care?
As far as I can detect, way back when the govt, MDs and big business began pushing margarine as ‘better than butter’, I knew they did not care about my health.
And keep them away from the drug industry! Most medical intrusions don’t cure anything.
That is ridiculous, but typical, conveniently letting people off the hook to take charge of their own health.
The other only way to make America healthier is to stop making America sicker.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1u17H
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Life Expectancy at Birth for United States, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, 2017-2022
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1u17W
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Infant Mortality for United States, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, 2017-2022
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1BSrP
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Life Expectancy at Birth for United States, Sweden and Italy, 2017-2022
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1BSs5
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Infant Mortality for United States, Sweden and Italy, 2017-2022
Damn! Statistically, my time ran out a few months ago. I must admit that mortality, both personally and universally, is much on my mind of late—the final koan.
Statistically, my time ran out a few months ago…
The point is to continue to productively go on. If a Picasso can continue being productive beyond 90, then why not you or me.
A most agreeable sentiment.
thanks again, you frelling jewell,lol.
and yeah…if i stop moving around and doin productive stuff, i likely wont last long.
i will most certainly seize up and not be able to move at all, after a time.
my german sucks…but a modified arbeit macht frie,lol.
without the ovens and such…and self directed.
brother and sister in law remarked at my physique…lol, rockin the dadbod, here.
they had expected slovenly, potbellied, etc.
(altho i have quite gone to seed, grown out my winter coat(beard))
but i walk all over every day, and do things.
and eat like a damned king, to boot.
(this week alone, persian lamb, etc,stuffed pumpkin, lamb carne guisada, goose mole,and a whole bunch of fancy salad stuff…almost all of it from my place…and cooked out here at the wilderness bar, on a wood fire….and thats just my contribution)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/well/obesity-epidemic-america.html
November 14, 2024
Three-Quarters of U.S. Adults Are Now Overweight or Obese
A sweeping new paper reveals the dramatic rise of obesity rates nationwide since 1990.
By Nina Agrawal
Nearly three quarters of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to a sweeping new study. The findings have wide-reaching implications for the nation’s health and medical costs as it faces a growing burden of weight-related diseases.
The study, * published on Thursday in The Lancet, reveals the striking rise of obesity rates nationwide since 1990 — when just over half of adults were overweight or obese — and shows how more people are becoming overweight or obese at younger ages than in the past. Both conditions can raise the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, and shorten life expectancy.
The study’s authors documented increases in the rates of overweight and obesity across ages. They were particularly alarmed by the steep rise among children, more than one in three of whom are now overweight or obese. Without aggressive intervention, they forecast, the number of overweight and obese people will continue to go up — reaching nearly 260 million people in 2050.
“I would consider it an epidemic,” said Marie Ng, who is an affiliate associate professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a co-author of the new paper…
* https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01548-4/fulltext
If it’s an epidemic, then I suppose that no further action is required. We don’t respond to epidemics any more.
Maybe they’ll develop a vaccine to combat obesity. /s
Pharma is way ahead. They’re advertising shots for obesity. Ugh!
Aggressive intervention? I shudder to think what that might look like.
“Organic Food” was what people used to call “Food” before the 90s.
The would be the key, getting people to understand that non-organic food is subfood that is unsafe to eat for long periods of time. That and ending corn subsidies.
As a society, we need to use a lot less industrialized food oil (rapeseed, corn, soya) too.
the human brain is largely a blob of tallow with neurons.
it is a reasonable hypothesis that a high sugar, pro-veg oil, “low-fat” diet is suboptimal for neonatal/kid brain development. ( beyond all the latent chemicals in foodstuffs and environment)
but no one is funding the research.
Much, if not most, of industrial grown corn, for example, is grown as animals fodder . (Don’t know about Soy and rapeseed). Ideally, meat should not be considered a staple food.
Here in Iowa almost half goes to ethanol. And cows can’t even digest the stuff but they stuff them full of it right before the slaughterhouse*
*NOT meat packing plant, F that.
I think ‘seed oils’ is the relevant term. But the scientific studies give mixed messages about their effect on ATP, so funding reliable research without interference by the people who produce those oils is the first step.
olive oil, sunflower, even safflower oil= good.
i avoid corn oil, and especially rapeseed oil(“canola”)..screws up my belly bigtime.
i use olive oil, lard, bacon grease, butter(real, unsalted) and on very rare occasions, peanut oil if i want to deepfry somethin.
and yet, i am not fat…and my doctor marvels that my triglyserides and whatnot look so derned good,lol.
(i eat a lot of heavy and crazy european cheese, too…brie on sourdough, often with shallots, is a first breakfast a few times a week))
but if you’re active, like i am(and if my crippled ass can be this active, whats yer excuse?) such things are not a worry, and nor are carbs(lean heavily towards raw, nearly unprocessed,lol)…you simply work it off, burn the fuel you consume, so yer body doesnt think its starving.
I cried off seed oils – including sunflower – on the understanding that the excessive omega-6:omega-3 ratio causes inflammation, with 3:1 being ideal. As far as I understand, soybean oil is the daddy of them all, at something like 70:1, while corn, sunflower etc. come in about 8:1. Olive oil is a fruit oil and has a ratio about the same, but the absolute level of omega-6 is low – I still wouldn’t cook with it, since it smells rancid to me at high temperatures.
I’m open to correction on all that, but I do also take account of the concern in online discussions of the disruption these oil cause to the production of ATP. So, I avoid them as much as I can – bloody difficult, since they’re an ingredient in most prepared or processed food!
The issue as I understand is in how they are processed. Plants such as canola require chemical processing to release the oil. Other plants such as olives, & coconuts do not. It is the industrial processing that is the issue as we have been using olive oil & coconut oil as humans for a long time & thus have co-evolved. (our bodies can process these oils and our ancestor have been using them for 1000’s of years)
I think the processing is a problem all by itself, in addition to the inflammatory qualities. Seed oils have been around for thousands of years, but the quantity produced and added to foods in the past century is off the scale.
It may take an outright banning of soy in our food system to overcome the amount of it in our foods. I cannot tolerate soy, a new food allergy for me, so I started collecting a list of the names they give to soy. I have a list of 80+ soy products (for lack of a better name) and less than 25 on my list actually contain the word “soy” in their title. The rest have scientific or word salad descriptors – but they are soy nonetheless.
No. We need to eat less. If the average over-large person would just cut every portion in half, and make no other changes, they could see a dramatic improvement in their health.
Necropolitics
Large group formation generally considered to be adaptive OTOH, schismogenesis on the other, previously produced destructive intergroup human conflicts that were relatively limited both technologically and geographically. Ah, the good old days. Perhaps Homo Erectus and the Neanderthals are better models of hominid evolutionary success, at least in terms of tenure, than will be our own.
I wonder whether a national sales tax on highly processed foods could work and be made to stick.
The revenue generated could fund a universal non-means-tested cash benefit Call it a “Citizen’s Dietary Contribution.”
No.
Something in the spirit of Hansen’s anti-fossil-carbon feetax-and-dividend plan, only for fake fuud? A fake-fuud feetax-and-dividend plan in hopes that the recipients of the dividend will spend it on real food if the feetax on fake fuud can be raised to tortorously high enough levels that real food becomes more affordable than fake fuud?
KFF should know better. “Food as medicine is non-conventional.” Clearly, the author did not take a nutrition class and most doctors only get a few hours nutrition training in their studies.
Yet, it is well known that poor nutrition causes all sorts of health problems that require expensive drugs to address.
Oh, I get it!
Put 1000 random middle-aged Americans on a diet of miso soup, veggies, and soba noodles for one year, that group is going to have an outcome as good as, or almost as good as, being on a statin.
Alas since no one funds the research, my hypothesis is that of a mad man!
Call me highly skeptical of the Means siblings and their desire to improve public health and meaningfully improve the health of Americans overall.
Their general message of “exercise/moving more, eating less processed foods, and ensuring adequate sleep” isn’t new or a new paradigm. These are things we have known for a long time but, for varying reasons, don’t do.
Let’s see if steps are taken to address and remove certain additives and chemical modifiers from processed food, as they state they want to. Ditto on banning or curbing certain ads and promotions geared toward young children and improving the nutritional quality of school lunches.
As for Peter McCullough, he has gone way beyond just being against the COVID-19 vaccine and boosters. He was a big promotor of The Great Barrington Declaration, ignores long-term COVID and what the studies are increasingly showing on subsequent COVID reinfection, and continues to push Ivermectin as a treatment and prevention for COVID-19. His latest scam (and the latest among sellers of Ivermectin) has been promoting it as a “miracle cure” for other diseases, especially cancer. He is a grifter and readily blocks anyone on X who calls these things to attention.
Call me highly skeptical of your drive by shooting. Ad hominem is a contemptible argument. And the giveaway is your pharma cartel-friendly attack on ivermectin.
Please if nothing else just kill the corn syrup subsidies
MAHA could be a very useful acronym for a very useful concept. It could at the very least be a movement-inspirer and also a tire-iron to use against the ” enemy within” who are the people and businesses who worked and work to make America sicker to begin with.
I see this going the way of apps on your phone that monitor your movement and allow your insurance provider to stiff you if you’ve been too sedentary or were geolocated near McDonald’s once too many times. No one in the Trump administration is going to tell PepsiCo they can’t sell soda or take away agribus’s subsidies. They might throw some subsidies at supplements or gyms, which would make the conservative CrossFit crowd happy. Some of these characters crack me up. They think it’s ok to eat tons of fried food as long as you’re frying in tallow rather than peanut oil. Fads are stupid. I eat pasta several days a week, and I still weigh what I did when I was 16. It doesn’t take a genius to eat healthy: Eat fruit and vegetables. You wanna make America healthy? The problem is that people spend too much time sitting on their asses at work and we’ve made it impossible to take walks in this country.
Robert Lustig is an endocrinologist and researcher who has recently retired, encouraging preventative care via lifestyle with improved diets. He is not selling anything (beyond a few books), but pushes to help kids and others eat better, almost entirely as a volunteer. Below is a link for free access to his 2012 book, which is a cookbook, plus explanation of metabolic abnormality associated with western diets (coauthored with a professional cook). Currently, the USDA subsidizes commodity foods much more than healthy ones – changing that could make a difference IMO. This contributes to higher costs for real food, and eventually to far higher health sequelae and medical costs due to chronic disease.
https://eatreal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Fat-Chance-Cookbook_Eat-REAL-Download.pdf
Coincidentally (as far as I know) similar subjects are touched upon in Eric Topol’s blog _Ground Truths_: “Facts, data, and analytics about Covid and other biomedical matters:”
Kevin Hall: What Should We Eat? (from a podcast)
Insights from the research by a leading scientist in nutrition and metabolism
Nov 30
Eric Topol from Ground Truths