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Trump administration health policies may target ultra-processed foods

HEALTHBEAT

They have been absolutely instrumental and highly, highly successful at delaying any regulatory effectiveness in America, said Laura Schmidt, a health policy professor at the University of California-San Francisco. Nutrition and health leaders are optimistic that a reckoning is already underway. and Nestle USA.

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What RFK Jr. Might Face in His Nomination Hearings This Week

KFF Health News

trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system. Here are four considerations for lawmakers on the Senate Finance and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees, which will host Kennedy for questioning on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively: 1) Kennedy’s unconventional health claims.