Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told NBC News that the Trump administration is simplifying the dietary guidelines meant to advise Americans on healthy eating.

Until now, the sugar industry had been somewhat spared from a huge decline in consumption of caloric sweeteners. While annual per capita consumption in 2023 was 21% lower than in 1999, the decline was driven by corn syrup, according to the Department of Agriculture. Sugar consumption per capita actually grew about 1% in the period.

The Health and Human Services secretary snapped so hard that a GOP senator had to step in and tell him “to hold back.”

I believe Cesar killed my father,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in a 2021 San Francisco Chronicle op-ed of security guard Thane Eugene Cesar, who died in 2019 and was never charged.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised President Donald Trump at a MAHA commission event at the White House on Thursday. Kennedy said he has never seen a president who is willing to stand up to industry and willing to talk about difficult issues.

The "Make America Healthy Again" report, commissioned by President Trump, highlights ultraprocessed foods and environmental toxins as driving causes of chronic disease.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slammed Washington Democrat Sen. Patty Murray for "presiding over the destruction" of Americans' health across her years in the Senate.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to release a report Thursday on how pesticides and other issues may be linked to childhood chronic diseases.