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14-02-2025
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RFK Jr.'s top health and wellness priorities as doctors share input
With the Thursday confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the spotlight is on the new secretary's plans to "Make America Healthy Again." "The future of public health is about to change forever," Kennedy's team wrote in an email announcing his confirmation. "This is a turning point for our nation. With RFK Jr. at the helm, the battle for accountability and real health reform is just getting started." Also on Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing the Make America Healthy Again Commission, which will be led by Kennedy, Fox News Digital exclusively learned. Everything To Know About Maha Here are some of the key issues and policies the commission plans to focus on, along with doctors' insights. Many doctors — including Dr. Brett Osborn, a Florida neurosurgeon and longevity expert — believe that food is the "root cause of chronic disease." Read On The Fox News App "Kennedy understands that fixing the food system is a priority," he told Fox News Digital. "Americans should expect policies to increase access to real, whole foods, counter corporate lobbying, and make nutrition a cornerstone of healthcare." Lara Trump On Food, Health And America's Children: 'We Want The Truth' "If Americans stopped consuming nutrient-deficient, ultra-processed junk laden with sugar, we wouldn't need a drug like Ozempic to compensate for poor dietary discipline," the doctor also said. "Remember, aside from the rare exception, a leaner body is always a healthier body." Dr. Dino Prato, oncologist and owner of Envita Medical Centers in Arizona, also emphasized Kennedy's focus on food quality and safety. "Kennedy's focus on promoting healthier food choices could lead to reforms in food policy, such as updating dietary guidelines to reflect the importance of whole foods, limiting the marketing of unhealthy foods to children, and supporting local and sustainable food systems," he told Fox News Digital. Maha Movement's 'Food Babe' Shares 5 Nutrition Tips For Healthier Eating Kennedy's emphasis on clean food aligns with a "growing public concern" about the impact of processed foods and environmental toxins on health, Prato noted. "By promoting cleaner food standards and a shift toward sustainable, whole food-based dietary guidelines, we aim to address chronic diseases at their roots." The MAHA Commission aims to expand health coverage and treatment options "for beneficial lifestyle changes and disease prevention," Fox News Digital has learned. "Kennedy's support for value-based care models could lead to more efficient and cost-effective healthcare delivery, improving access to care for underserved populations," Prato told Fox News Digital. "This will also incentivize the development of innovative and more affordable healthcare solutions." Prato also predicts a renewed focus on "integrative medicine," which combines therapies and lifestyle changes. "Kennedy's personal experience with integrative medicine could lead to increased support for and greater access to alternative and complementary therapies, potentially improving patient outcomes and reducing reliance on pharmaceuticals," he said. Kennedy's focus on holding pharmaceutical companies accountable for potential vaccine side effects could lead to greater safety measures for patients, according to Prato. "This increased scrutiny may incentivize companies to conduct more rigorous and transparent clinical trials," he told Fox News Digital. Maha Moms Call For 'Rigorous Transparency' Into Health Concerns Emily Austin, TV personality and clean beauty brand owner in New York City, agreed that people are getting "more and more dependent on drugs and procedures that profit organizations and corporations." Osborn reiterated that the pharmaceutical industry generates profit by managing disease, not preventing it. "Kennedy intends to challenge this model, starting with transparency in drug pricing while exposing conflicts of interest and the revolving door between regulatory agencies and industry executives," he told Fox News Digital. Kennedy will push to break the ties between government agencies and pharmaceutical giants, Osborn predicted. "Expect reforms in clinical trial transparency, a crackdown on direct-to-consumer drug advertising, and a stronger emphasis on disease prevention rather than symptom management." While some lawmakers have expressed concerns about Kennedy's vaccine views, the incoming secretary has vowed not to take away anyone's access to vaccines, but rather provide them with access to "good science." "Medical decisions – like surgery — should be rooted in informed consent, not blind compliance," Osborn said. "Kennedy's is not an 'anti-vax' position, but a pro-transparency, pro-science position. Patients deserve full access to data, risk-benefit analysis, and the ability to choose what is injected into their bodies without coercion or censorship." The pandemic exposed "glaring issues" in our public health infrastructure, Osborn said, and he believes Kennedy will address those head on. "The goal is not to abolish vaccines – national vaccine programs have been around for decades, and they work — but to restore trust by eliminating the profit-driven conflicts of interest that have eroded credibility." "Americans should be able to ask questions without being silenced or ridiculed." RFK Jr. has regularly shared videos of his rigorous gym workouts on social media, including some with Ike Catcher, a bodyweight training influencer. Osborn refers to exercise as "the forgotten prescription," blaming physical inactivity as one of the strongest predictors of chronic disease. Click Here To Sign Up For Our Health Newsletter "Our system prioritizes pharmaceutical interventions over lifestyle changes that actually address the root cause," he said. "In this context, RFK will push for initiatives that reinforce movement as medicine." The appointment of RFK Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services marks a "major shift" in American healthcare, according to Osborn. "Kennedy's approach rejects top-down mandates and bureaucratic interference," he said. "Instead, he focuses on personal accountability." The current healthcare system profits from disease rather than preventing it, Osborn noted. "For too long, we've been stuck in a passive disease management system that treats symptoms instead of addressing the root causes of illness," he said. For more Health articles, visit "Kennedy's message is clear: Your health is your responsibility. The government won't fix it. Your doctor won't fix it. Big pharma certainly won't fix it. It's on you."Original article source: RFK Jr.'s top health and wellness priorities as doctors share input
Yahoo
11-02-2025
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MAHA, RFK Jr. confirmation put childhood vaccines in spotlight: MMR fact vs fiction
Amid Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s push to improve healthcare as part of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, there is a growing focus on vaccine transparency. One of the most common childhood inoculations — the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine — has been a requirement for school attendance since its development in the 1970s. Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier answered some frequently asked questions regarding the vaccine in a video for Fox News Digital. (See the video at the top of the article.) Make America Healthy Again: What To Know About The Movement People often ask why the three vaccines are combined, which Saphier said is simply for convenience. "From a public health standpoint, if the goal is to vaccinate as many children as possible to reach that herd immunity and keep these infections at bay, again, parents are more likely to only bring their child to the pediatrician that one time," the doctor said. Read On The Fox News App "And on a child, isn't it easier to give one injection as opposed to three separate injections?" Lara Trump On Food, Health And America's Children: 'We Want The Truth' Saphier also addressed concerns about MMR vaccine side effects, including inflammatory reactions at the site of the injection, where the skin can become red and warm. Children can also have low-grade fevers and feel irritable or lethargic, which is "likely to happen" even with each individual vaccine – not just when the vaccines are combined. "The reality is there are always side effects when it comes to any sort of healthcare intervention," she said in the video. "But with vaccines in particular, you can have the more mild side effects, and there are some severe, more rare side effects that are well-documented." The potential for a link between autism and vaccinations has been a deterrent for many parents when choosing to vaccinate their children, but Saphier said the "overwhelming majority" of "good research" shows no causal link. Bill Gates Likely Had Autism As A Child, He Reveals: 'Wasn't Widely Understood' One of the largest studies, conducted in Denmark, found a lower risk of autism in more than 650,000 vaccinated children, the doctor noted. While the U.S. has a higher incidence of autism compared to other countries, specifically Europe, the doctor revealed that European nations have higher rates of MMR vaccine uptake. "The signs and symptoms [of autism] start to show around the time we're giving all these vaccines, so it makes sense to kind of think they may be related," she said. "And it made sense to do as much research as we can to make sure there isn't a link." Maha Moms Call For 'Rigorous Transparency' Into Health Concerns "But I think we need to be looking really hard at our environment, what we're ingesting, the pollutants, the toxins, everything in big agriculture, big pharma, in our food industry and everything else." Saphier suggested that a link to autism may be found after diving into the "harmful chemicals" consumed by Americans that other nations do not consume. The doctor also said that medical agencies — such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics — should be "less stringent" on vaccination schedules, leaving the decision to the parents. "If parents don't want to give these vaccines when their babies are so little, I think it's OK to have that conversation and let them wait until their child's a little bit older before they head off to kindergarten," said Saphier, who is a mother of three boys. For more Health articles, visit "Because maybe at that time, you start to see signs of autism between about 1 to 3 years of age for the most part. So maybe let the parent get their child through that time, and if there aren't signs of autism, then maybe they'll feel better about … being able to vaccinate their children." "It should be a conversation between the doctor and the patient," she said. "Unfortunately, during the COVID pandemic, the CDC and a lot of healthcare professionals really took away this conversation." "By putting the COVID vaccine and booster for children in the same basket as MMR and some of the other vaccines, when it comes to children, that was the biggest mistake they could have ever [made]," Saphier continued. "That has caused more vaccine hesitancy and concern." Click Here To Sign Up For Our Health Newsletter Saphier expressed her hope that the MAHA movement will help identify safety signals in vaccines, which will "give parents the confidence they need to continue with the vaccine programs, because they really can save lives." Fox News Digital's Khloe Quill contributed article source: MAHA, RFK Jr. confirmation put childhood vaccines in spotlight: MMR fact vs fiction
Yahoo
11-02-2025
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MAHA, RFK Jr. confirmation put childhood vaccines in spotlight: MMR fact vs fiction
Amid RFK Jr.'s push to improve healthcare as part of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, there is a growing focus on vaccine transparency. One of the most common childhood inoculations — the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine — has been a requirement for school attendance since its development in the 1970s. Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier answered some frequently asked questions regarding the vaccine in a video sent to Fox News Digital. (See the video at the top of the article.) Make America Healthy Again: What To Know About The Movement People often ask why the three vaccines are combined, which Saphier said is simply for convenience. "From a public health standpoint, if the goal is to vaccinate as many children as possible to reach that herd immunity and keep these infections at bay, again, parents are more likely to only bring their child to the pediatrician that one time," the doctor said. Read On The Fox News App "And on a child, isn't it easier to give one injection as opposed to three separate injections?" Lara Trump On Food, Health And America's Children: 'We Want The Truth' Saphier also addressed some concerns about MMR vaccine side effects, including inflammatory reactions at the site of the injection, where the skin can become red and warm. Children can also have low-grade fevers and feel irritable or lethargic, which is "likely to happen" even with each individual vaccine – not just when they are combined. "The reality is there are always side effects when it comes to any sort of healthcare intervention," she said in the video. "But with vaccines in particular, you can have the more mild side effects, and there are some severe, more rare side effects that are well-documented." The potential for autism being linked to vaccinations has been a deterrent for many parents when choosing to vaccinate their children, but Saphier said the "overwhelming majority" of "good research" shows no causal link. Bill Gates Likely Had Autism As A Child, He Reveals: 'Wasn't Widely Understood' One of the largest studies, which was conducted in Denmark, found a lower risk of autism in more than 650,000 vaccinated children, the doctor noted. While the U.S. has a higher incidence of autism compared to other countries, specifically Europe, the doctor revealed that European nations have higher rates of MMR vaccine uptake. "The signs and symptoms [of autism] start to show around the time we're giving all these vaccines, so it makes sense to kind of think they may be related," she said. "And it made sense to do as much research as we can to make sure there isn't a link." Maha Moms Call For 'Rigorous Transparency' Into Health Concerns "But I think we need to be looking really hard at our environment, what we're ingesting, the pollutants, the toxins, everything in big agriculture, big pharma, in our food industry and everything else." Saphier suggested that a link to autism may be found after diving into the "harmful chemicals" consumed by Americans that other nations do not consume. The doctor also said that medical agencies — such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics — should be "less stringent" on vaccination schedules, leaving the decision to the parents. "If parents don't want to give these vaccines when their babies are so little, I think it's OK to have that conversation and let them wait until their child's a little bit older before they head off to kindergarten," said Saphier, who is a mother of three boys. For more Health articles, visit "Because maybe at that time, you start to see signs of autism between about 1 to 3 years of age for the most part. So maybe let the parent get their child through that time, and if there aren't signs of autism, then maybe they'll feel better about … being able to vaccinate their children." "It should be a conversation between the doctor and the patient," she said. "Unfortunately, during the COVID pandemic, the CDC and a lot of healthcare professionals really took away this conversation." "By putting the COVID vaccine and booster for children in the same basket as MMR and some of the other vaccines, when it comes to children, that was the biggest mistake they could have ever [made]," Saphier continued. "That has caused more vaccine hesitancy and concern." Click Here To Sign Up For Our Health Newsletter Saphier expressed her hope that the MAHA movement will help identify safety signals in vaccines, which will "give parents the confidence they need to continue with the vaccine programs, because they really can save lives." Fox News Digital's Khloe Quill contributed article source: MAHA, RFK Jr. confirmation put childhood vaccines in spotlight: MMR fact vs fiction
Yahoo
09-02-2025
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MAHA influencer demands stricter safety standards for US cosmetics
As the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement gains momentum, U.S.-made products are getting closer attention. In an on-camera interview with Fox News Digital, TV personality and clean beauty brand owner Emily Austin expressed her excitement about the push for change. Austin, who is the CEO of People's Beauty in New York City, noted that her skincare brand is made with "clean ingredients," with no parabens, sulphates, phthalates, silicone, dyes or fragrances. Maha Moms Call For 'Rigorous Transparency' Into Health Concerns The People's Beauty website states that its products are formulated to "EU cosmetics standards (the highest standard in the world), banning over 1,300 toxins." "But how sad is it that we have to fit another country's health standards?" Austin questioned during the interview. Read On The Fox News App "I would love our website to say, 'We meet the U.S. health standard – because America has higher standards for their consumers." Austin said she considers it "pathetic" that the U.S. "brags" about meeting Europe's standards of safety. Lara Trump On Food, Health And America's Children: 'We Want The Truth' "It should be all across the globe," she added. "But especially a country like the U.S., where everyone has eyes on [us] – I think it's a shame." As the Mediterranean diet has been widely dubbed one of the healthiest ways to eat, Austin suggested that the U.S. should take a page out of Europe's book when it comes to food as well as cosmetics. Austin said she is optimistic that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — leader of the MAHA movement — will tackle preservatives and pesticide use in the U.S. food supply. "Why are we eating poison, and then questioning why so many Americans are sick?" she said. "Too many people are focused on the cure and not on preventative care." Click Here To Sign Up For Our Health Newsletter For cosmetics, Austin challenged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban the same toxins as the EU — especially offenders like parabens, also known as preservatives, which have been linked to endocrine issues. For women, this may manifest as reproductive complications or hormone disruptions that could lead to cancer, according to Austin. For more Health articles, visit "Just because [some companies are] legally allowed to have parabens to a certain extent, doesn't mean they should," she said. "Yes, it's better for the companies, of course — your products don't expire — but at whose expense?" she went on. "It's at the consumer's health expense." To consumers, Austin recommends sticking with ingredients that come from nature and steering clear of plastics in exfoliating products and chemical-based oils. "Nature provides you with every single alternative that you need for cosmetics," she said. "I really don't think there's a good excuse anymore to use chemicals. Maybe it's a lot cheaper, but nature always has the same solution."Original article source: MAHA influencer demands stricter safety standards for US cosmetics
