Every five years since 1980, the federal government has issued an updated set of dietary guidelines. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has vowed to transform Americans’ unhealthy eating habits. Given that he has expressed some unorthodox...
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