Can MAHA succeed at making America healthy again?

Is the movement working to address the root causes of our collective, systemic health issues, as they laid out (with flaws, including fake citations) in their initial MAHA Commission Report? Or are they capitulating to the agriculture industry and merely tinkering with the removal of food additives? Will they address pesticides? Or focus on the removal of high fructose corn syrup from some Coca-Cola products?

On the latest episode of our podcast, What You’re Eating,  we speak to Helena Bottemiller Evich and Theodore Ross, co-hosts of the podcast Forked. Every two weeks, they discuss “the politics and policy that are turning the American food system on its head.” For much of the past year, they have spent a huge amount of time discussing MAHA, its connections to RFK Jr., and the ways in which he and the movement are shaping policy and practice, from federal and state laws to food companies’ promises to change the formulas of their products. Together we talk through who makes up this movement, what their priorities are, what progress MAHA is making toward its goals — and where it is falling short. Can it succeed where prior efforts have failed and make America healthy again?