HHS Secretary RFK Jr. was on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo to talk about the health of Americans. He also discussed the dietary guidelines for Americans with the new food pyramid.
“I want to get your take on why now you’ve decided to change the guidelines for diet and health. Walk us through those guidelines and what the impact will be?” Bartiromo asked.
“We assembled the best food scientists in the world, from the greatest American universities, and they have been quartered, debating these issues, looking at the science. And we’ve come up with guidelines that are actually going to benefit American health,” RFK Jr said.
RFK Jr explained that previous guidelines were more focused on the interests of the food industry. The new guidelines are designed to promote health and encourage Americans to eat things like fruits, vegetables, dairy, whole grains, and meats.
“The prior guidelines were driven not by health interests, but by mercantile interests of the food industry, which had captured FDA,” RFK Jr said.
“We’ve now flipped the food pyramid, and we are urging Americans to eat real food. Eat whole food, meats and healthy fats like dairy. Fruits and vegetables and whole grains,” RFK Jr continued.
RFK Jr went on to explain that the massive amounts of money the US spends on health is because of poor diet.
“We are spending 5 trillion dollars annually on health. We spend three times per capita what European countries do and we have the worst health outcomes, and it is mainly driven by food,” RFK Jr said.
“The only way that we are going to lower healthcare costs in this country is by helping Americans to change their diet and eat healthy food is the first major step,” RFK Jr explained.
“Why did it take so long to make this an actual guideline of a policy, and how significant an impact will this have?” Bartiromo asked.
“I think the reason that it took so long is that we have not had a President previously that has been willing to stand up to these very, very powerful interests,” RFK Jr said.
“The most immediate impact that we are going to see is with military meals, with federally subsidized programs like SNAP, like the tribal health programs, like Headstart and many others. It’s gonna change the diet in those programs, in prisons. Any place where the federal government, in school lunch programs, any place where the government is involved in subsidizing food,” RFK Jr continued.
“78 percent of the SNAP recipients, of food stamp recipients, end up on Medicaid,” RFK Jr said.
“10 percent of the SNAP prior to when we got in here was going to soda drinks which are poisoning people and giving them diabetes,” RFK Jr warned.
“38 percent of American teens are now diabetic or prediabetic. That was essentially zero when I was a kid. Now it’s one out of every three kids who walks into a pediatrician office, and we can change that with diet,” RFK Jr continued.
“Most people, most type 2 diabetes can lose their diagnosis simply by changing diet. It’s much more effective than pharmaceutical drugs, or pharmaceutical interventions, or medical interventions,” RFK Jr explained.
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Today, exclusively on @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo , HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr spoke about the new dietary guidelines for Americans.@FoxNews pic.twitter.com/FTP9vsURF6
— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) January 11, 2026
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