Understanding the scientific value of “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) can be challenging. The MAHA report — commissioned by President Donald Trump and overseen by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr — cited hundreds of sources, misinterpreting some and fabricating others.
“We may not agree with everything that the MAHA commission and [Kennedy] are putting forth,” said the UPenn report’s lead author Alyssa Moran, ScD, MPH, director of policy and research strategy at the Penn Center for Food and Nutrition Policy.
But some of MAHA’s priorities are backed by well-established science and are worth supporting, according to a new University of Pennsylvania report published Wednesday on the Psychology of Eating and Consumer Health Lab website and obtained by Medscape Medical News for exclusive review.