Obesity in America: Finding the Balance Between Healthy Eating and Modern Medicine | This is America

Obesity remains one of America's most critical public health crises.

In response, the Trump administration has adopted a dual-track strategy: expanding access to highly effective weight-loss medications through subsidies and price caps, while championing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again initiative, which promotes whole foods, reduced consumption of ultra-processed foods and a rethinking of long-standing federal nutrition guidance.

Presenter: Alex Marquardt

Guests: Joanne Kenen - Journalist-In-Residence at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Michael Cannon - Director of Health Policy Studies at Cato Institute

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