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Since being confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been working non-stop to make America healthier. What has he been up to, and what’s next on his agenda?

From CBN. The movement to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) is alive and well under new Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  From food dyes to baby formula, he and his team are moving at breakneck speed to address America’s chronic disease epidemic.

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In February, RFK, Jr. was sworn in as the new Secretary of HHS. …

Kennedy says nothing is off limits.

His first target: food additives.

In March, Kennedy met with the heads of major food companies, telling them food dyes must be phased out by the end of his term. …

“Big Food” has been pushing back, though. A memo from the Consumer Brands Association warned that a ban threatens the industry’s reliance on cheap, vibrant dyes to maintain product appeal and affordability.

Kennedy has also announced the complete review of the standard known as GRAS, or Generally Recognized as Safe.

“In 1958, the government created a designation called Generally Recognized as Safe or GRAS so that we can make common ingredients like salt and baking soda exempt from testing,” he explained in a social media video. “But today it isn’t just salt and baking soda. Food companies and cooperative regulators have enlarged the GRAS exemption so that these companies can decide for themselves whether a substance is Generally Recognized as Safe. No FDA approval is needed.”

It looks like that will be changing. …

And then there’s what HHS has dubbed “Operation Stork Speed.” The agency is aiming to update American baby formula standards, in a move to remove ingredients like seed oils and high fructose corn syrup.

All of these moves are generating excitement in the health world.

“I’m a person that believes that this immune system that God made for us is amazing,” John Richardson, founder of Operation World Without Cancer, told CBN News. …

So, where does this movement go from here?

Katy Talento is an epidemiologist who served as a health advisor in the first Trump administration. She says one of Kennedy’s biggest tasks will be to get his HHS employees, many of them career civil servants, on board with his vision. …

In terms of what she thinks could happen next, she anticipates an update to dietary guidelines. She also wants Kennedy to address the childhood vaccine schedule and focus on how various agencies got so much wrong during the COVID pandemic.  …

We prayed about the movement to Make America Healthy Again on our most recent First Friday webcast. You can view that webcast embedded below.

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(Excerpt from CBN. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=143035691)