RFK, Jr. would face a 'trifecta' of challenges in turning the tide on obesity epidemic: 'Not an easy fix'

Americans are getting heavier, and truthful is the task that awaits Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who, if confirmed by Congress arsenic President-elect Donald Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary, volition beryllium entrusted with mitigating the occupation arsenic overmuch arsenic helium can.

A new study published successful the aesculapian diary The Lancet suggests 260 cardinal Americans could beryllium overweight oregon obese by 2050, exacerbating an already devastating wellness situation predominantly affecting little income families.

Kennedy insists America's nutrient proviso is astatine responsibility – a culmination of effect oils, unsafe dyes, preservatives and different chemicals mostly absent from foods successful different developed nations. 

Fox News aesculapian contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier said a "trifecta" of issues person fueled the crisis, and fixing it won't beryllium truthful easy.

"This is not going to beryllium an casual fix. It is overmuch much analyzable than conscionable telling radical ‘eat healthier and bash a small spot much exercise,’" she said.

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Trump HHS nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to "Make America Healthy Again." (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

For caller mothers, she suggested, breastfeeding is simply a steadfast enactment to power not lone your ain weight, but besides to forestall weight-related problems for your child.

Beyond babyhood, families and communities should absorption much connected creating steadfast environments for outdoor play, getting acquisition astir nutrition backmost successful schools and promoting exercise.

"We besides request to get these unhealthy foods retired of our supermarkets, not needfully by banning them, but we request to marque definite that people, if we are consuming them, we either request a informing [on the package] oregon they request to marque them healthier. Frankly, we request a much affordable, steadfast option," she said.

Some studies suggest weight-related aesculapian issues disproportionately affect low-income families who trust connected little costly processed foods to support their pantry full.

To adhd to the crisis, Antiobesity drugs similar Wegovy and Zepbound – which beforehand value nonaccomplishment by curbing appetite and regulating hormones affected by conditions that marque value nonaccomplishment much hard similar metabolic syndrome, insulin absorption oregon polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) – travel successful astatine implicit $1,000 per month, meaning lone those capable to spend the drugs tin entree them.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. shakes hands with then-GOP nominee Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

With compounding pharmacies coming nether the FDA's scrutiny arsenic well, cost-effective medicine alternatives are becoming progressively limited. 

"Obesity and overweight rates person have doubled since 1990… and it truly boils down to respective things: the ultra-processed foods successful our diet, which, arsenic RFK Jr. likes to constituent out, are not disposable elsewhere successful the world. It's conscionable present successful the United States that we spot these truthful much," Saphier said.

"[There's also] the deficiency of accessibility and affordability of healthy options and the information that radical conscionable aren't moving anymore. We are obsessed with our devices. P.E. has been taken retired of schools. We're not focusing connected sports and afterschool programs, truthful this has conscionable been a trifecta that has led america into this crisis."

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