RFK Jr.’s FOX News Interview about beef Talg -Talg fries spreads wrong and contradictory messages

In a Fox News interview last week, health and human service secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that a bad nutrition was a role in the production of a child who is not vaccinated in school age in the Mennonite community of West Texas, the first person to die in the USA for 10 years. “It is extremely difficult for measles to kill a healthy individual,” said Kennedy, adding that “there is a connection between those who suffer from measles and people who lack adequate nutrition or does not affect regular physical activity.”

Kennedy’s celebration with Fast Food directly contradicts his attitude towards the role of nutrition in the results of the disease.

Then, a few days later, Kennedy appeared in Sean Hannity’s Fox News program and praised Steak ‘n Shake to fry his French fries in beef valley. “Steak ‘n shake was fantastic,” said the health secretary and vocal seed-oil opponent. “We are very grateful that you have enriched your French fries. You have transformed my name into a verb. “

Kennedy’s celebration with Fast Food directly contradicts his attitude towards the role of nutrition in the results of the disease. And in order to be clear, it is dishonest and insulting to combine poor nutrition with a measles – death – to avoid that he does not blame the responsibility for the vaccination of children. Although Kennedy West Texas described as “something of a food desert” and suggested that malnutrition “could have been a problem for the deceased child, his comments from health officials in Texas were immediately refuted, which reported that the child had no” known basic conditions “.

Dr. Wendy Parker, a doctor from Gaines County, Texas, who serves numerous Mennonite patients, directly challenged Kennedy. She pointed out that Mennonites usually avoid processed food, put on their own cattle and bake their own bread. “They are the healthiest people,” she said. “Nutrition, I would compare it to everyone.”

And yet this child not only died, but also a non -vaccinated adult in New Mexico, who was also tested positively on measles after death. On Thursday afternoon, more than 250 cases of measles and 22 hospital stays in Texas and New Mexico took place in Texas and New Mexico. Most cases come from children of school age who are either not vaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown.

Kennedy sinks new misinformation in order to blame this measles outbreak during nutrition-and also misinformations if he suggests that Steak ‘n shake of beef is healthier. Its promotion of beef alg via seed oils misses the essential point: Fast food fries fries, regardless of what they are fried, are processed, calorie-rich foods with a minimal nutritional value. It is exactly the type of food that contributes to the epidemic of chronic diseases in America that Kennedy swore as HHS secretary.

Kennedy’s false and contradictory messages are problematic in and of themselves, but particularly troubling in view of additional measures by HHS that have harmful specialists, researchers and authorities for public healthcare. The latest termination of the National Institutes of Health Funds for vaccine deletion research will be counterproductive and only expand the gap of distrust in the American public. Science about measles is clear: vaccination is the most effective strategy for prevention. Two doses of the MMR vaccine offer protection of 97%. But Kennedy wrongly claimed Hannity that the measles vaccine itself was fatal.

Before vaccines were available, measles in the United States killed around 500 children a year – many of them have so far been healthy.

The virus does not discriminate against eating habits. For all 1,000 people who are infected with measles in the USA, there are one to three deaths, and about 40% of those who were infected last year needed hospital admission. These are not statistics that can be reduced by avoiding seed oils or the hug tallow or training of beef.

Every statement from official top health officers. As wrong Kennedy is to quote a bad nutrition as a reason why a person can die of measles, and as wrong as he tries to sell people on French fries that are fried in beef alg, there are people who become believe him. If the top health officer of our nation incorrectly blames the poor diet for measles death and then celebrates fast food, we are faced with a dangerous contradiction that undermines public trust and confuses the Americans who are looking for reliable health instructions.