Cooking with sugar cane may not be great in Maha’s victory
Coca-Cola will offer a cane sugar version of its distinctive drink, instead of one sweetened with corn syrup.
The main sectors of the food industry, including General Mills and Heinz, have pledged to remove some colored dyes from their products.
Steak ‘N Shake makes a fast food chain that makes fried potatoes in the fat instead of vegetable oil.
The Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) has claimed Robert F. Kennedy Junior is all victories on “making America healthy again” (MAA) as part of its endeavor to repair American food supply.
Kennedy said on the social platform X after Froot Loops recently agreed to its nose-as well as a good instinct, “WK Kelogg Co.
But food and food policy experts say that the moves are far from making America more healthier.
While they praised the administration and Mahh drew attention to what they said is a broken diet, the victories that have been described so far were largely symbolic and relied on goodwill to the industry keen to seem useful to avoid strict government organization.
“I think that if we are really interested in improving public health, some small health initiatives, such as … replace the high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar, is not in fact the place where the administration should direct its efforts and benefit from the strength it enjoys,” said Berra Wielding-Seng, Director of Politics and Programs at the World Food Institute at George Washington University.
“I think they should focus their efforts on initiatives that already address the root of the problem, a diet that mainly promotes sugar, salt and fat,” said Fielding Singh.
Health officials and legislators have moved to the conservative media in recent weeks to distribute the obligations from food and beverage companies to remove artificial dyes. According to HHS, approximately 35 percent of the industry has been subjected to such commitment.
But there was no power behind the actions of companies, which experts said was an issue.
“The switching from artificial colors to natural colors will not make these products less likely to cause obesity,” said Gereold Mandy, a former official during three departments in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Ministry of Agriculture, Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Barry Popkin, professor of nutrition at North Carolina Gilings University for Global Public Health, said Kennedy could make a major statement by banning all colors and dyes.
The Americans will not make healthy directly, but it will make a long way to make the very treated food look less attractive.
“All of these voluntary things are going only until now. They really affect the minimum,” said Boubkin. “Unless he goes to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and made the Food and Drug Administration change a list … there is nothing.”
Kennedy has also delegated the use of high fructose corn syrup as a major contributor to diabetes and obesity. He was previously called “poison”, an expert in late April when talking about sugar.
When Steak ‘N Shake said earlier this month, she would have been selling Coca-Cola with Sugy Cane Real, and Kennedy praised this step.
“Maha Wins”, Kennedy posted on X.
But the experts said that there is no big difference in the benefits of using cane sugar as an alternative to the high fructose corn drink.
“At the end of the day, coke is still a box of coke. It is not fruit or vegetables, right? And so if the consumption does not turn away from these higher calories, foods that are treated with low nutrients in the right direction,”
“They are drunk and they will be poison,” said Mandy, the CEO of Nourish Science, but if Kennedy believes that sugar is poison, “They are drunk and they will be poison, as he put it.”
Health officials argue that industrial cooperation is the key of Maha’s agenda.
“Working with industry is the best place to start. We believe in the industry to do the right thing when calling,” wrote the Food and Drug Administration Marti Macari and the centers of Medicare and Medicaid Mehmet Oz in a joint article in Wall Street Journal.
“Our agencies are in a strong position to show Americans who are the right thing when it comes to popular reforms. By the time we end, we will fill new relationships and be in a better position to hold them accountable,” said Makary and Oz.
However, there is a lot of agency that you can do, it should do so, and this industry has pushed back.
Aviva Music, the scientific director of the non -profit science center in the public interest, said that Maha wastes her political capital.
“It is amazing that we have not seen the administration a policy to improve the diet. It only depends on the voluntary industry obligations that we have seen, repeatedly and repeated in the past,” said Musicus.
“When pushing the food industry to change, Trump and RFK JR have an opportunity to raise their promises to fight chronic diseases. Coca -Cola on the table, but they get lost the opportunity to improve health.
Boubkin said he would like to see warning stickers on the foods that are equipped with super sodium, additive sugar and saturated fat.
“Kennedy hasn’t dealt with the treatment of flying foods yet. This will be where it can have a health effect in the United States and all non -infectious diseases, including obesity. But he hasn’t gone there yet,” said Boubkin.
The coming months will reveal the MAA movement plans to change how to take Americans. Kennedy recently said: “New food instructions will be released” in the next few months, “Kennedy said recently.
In addition, the MAHA Second report is expected to focus on the policy recommendations in August.
“We must think that there may be real capabilities on the road,” said Boubkin. “but [there’s been] Nothing yet. This document will tell us if there is ever. “
