{"id":2370905,"date":"2024-11-19T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-book-explains-how-americans-can-become-healthy-again\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T15:52:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:52:33","slug":"new-book-explains-how-americans-can-become-healthy-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-book-explains-how-americans-can-become-healthy-again\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Explains How Americans Can Become Healthy Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-book-explains-how-americans-can-become-healthy-again%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2370905&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the surprising nomination of\u200d Robert F. \u200bKennedy Jr., a pro-abortion Democrat, to lead the\u2064 Department of Health\u200b and Human Services (HHS) in a Republican administration, emphasizing\u2064 a growing recognition among Americans of a healthcare crisis. The author posits that American health is deteriorating\u2014evidenced by rising obesity rates and \u2062chronic illnesses\u2014with a new \u200bmandate for <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">health reform\u2063 overshadowing traditional \u2063political divides<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In this\u2064 context, the article highlights \u2063the challenges posed by the industrial food system and pharmaceutical companies,\u2064 which, according to former \u200cPresident Trump, have contributed \u200cto public \u2064health issues through misinformation\u2062 and harmful products. Kennedy&#8217;s \u200bappointment \u200brepresents \u200ban \u2062attempt to reform healthcare and food production, promising significant\u2062 improvements in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-workers-pay-hidden-cost-for-minimum-wage-hike-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Nevada workers pay hidden cost for minimum wage hike - Washington Examiner\">chronic disease management<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The narrative also \u2063critiques past \u2064health initiatives, such as those \u200dlaunched by former First Lady Michelle Obama, suggesting they failed to address the root causes of obesity \u200dand \u2064health crises. \u200bThe article argues that Americans remain\u2063 trapped in a cycle of unhealthy lifestyles and \u200dcorporate manipulation, which has only worsened over the \u2062decades. <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy aims to\u2062 break \u2064this cycle \u200dand implement real changes, challenging the existing healthcare\u200c and food industries in a bid to improve public health and make Americans healthier. the article presents an optimistic\u200c outlook \u2064on the potential for meaningful health reforms under \u200bKennedy&#8217;s\u200d leadership, \u2062contrasting sharply with\u2064 the perceived failures of previous initiatives.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>How did a pro-abortion Democrat capture the nomination for secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) in a Republican administration? Simply put, Americans are too sick, and they want something done about it, regardless of who their champion might be. My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DNJZLVZ5\/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=5RZXAJFSEBXR&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.u_gMME28cHAPUsj1hYJVsw.JJuiyfR7wdRCcVMWcBf1k7T9P3sxqnkz9hRRqDhCsII&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=fat+and+unhappy+tristan+justice&amp;qid=1732021014&amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C105&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new book<\/a>, co-authored with fitness writer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FlorioGina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gina Bontempo<\/a>, releases this week and explains how America got to this point and offers a road map back to health.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump was reelected this November on a mandate to make America &ldquo;great&rdquo; again by making America &ldquo;healthy&rdquo; again. In August, environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ended his own independent White House run to forge a bipartisan coalition that would cement health as a new pillar of Trump&rsquo;s signature campaign slogan. The former president can grow the gross domestic product (GDP) all he wants, but America is not that &ldquo;great&rdquo; if all of those economic numbers are built on a nation that remains chronically fat, sick, and depressed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If I&rsquo;m given the chance to fix the chronic disease crisis and reform our food production, I promise that within two years we will watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-pitches-himself-to-join-trump-administration-as-chronic-disease-czar-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"RFK Jr. pitches himself to join Trump administration as chronic disease czar - Washington Examiner\">chronic disease burden lift dramatically<\/a>,&rdquo; Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/im1776.com\/2024\/08\/24\/rfk-address-to-the-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in his Phoenix endorsement speech. &ldquo;We will make Americans healthy again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Republican president-elect gave Kennedy that chance.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health,&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1857170020427595797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> on X in a post announcing Kennedy&rsquo;s appointment to lead HHS. &ldquo;The Safety and Health of all Americans is the most important role of any Administration, and HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy&rsquo;s nomination might have been months in the making, but the movement had been decades in the pipeline. <\/p>\n<p>Americans have long understood that their health has been rapidly deteriorating with no help from their diet. Health care costs keep skyrocketing while waistlines keep swelling. A new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(24)01548-4\/fulltext\">p<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(24)01548-4\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ublished<\/a> in The Lancet last week estimates nearly 260 million U.S. residents will be either overweight or obese by 2050. Lifespan might be longer than it was a century ago, but health span, the number of years lived without debilitating disease, certainly isn&rsquo;t where it should be. <\/p>\n<p>Six in 10 Americans suffer from at least one chronic illness, while four in 10 from two or more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/chronic-disease\/about\/index.html#:~:text=Chronic%20diseases%20in%20America&amp;text=Six%20in%2010%20Americans%20have,inactivity%2C%20and%20excessive%20alcohol%20use.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according <\/a>to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Americans have become miserable as the nation grapples with an unprecedented <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/16\/we-dont-have-a-mental-health-crisis-we-have-a-lifestyle-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mental health crisis<\/a> that coincides with a lifestyle crisis delivered by corporations that keep users hooked on television and cheap food.<\/p>\n<p>Our new book explains how Americans became so &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DNJZLVZ5?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_tw_ud_dp_2JQWQHWKND2KZVYKXZP5&amp;ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_tw_ud_dp_2JQWQHWKND2KZVYKXZP5&amp;social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_tw_ud_dp_2JQWQHWKND2KZVYKXZP5&amp;skipTwisterOG=1&amp;bestFormat=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fat and Unhappy<\/a>&rdquo; and what to do about it. <\/p>\n<p>For decades, those who&rsquo;ve wanted to lose weight and reclaim their health too often only wound up frustrated. Americans dutifully followed expensive regimens endorsed by establishment medical professionals who promoted corporate-backed remedies, such as the low-fat diet. The failed efforts bred a new generation of internet influencers raising the white flag of &ldquo;body positivity,&rdquo; promoted again by the food industry, as detailed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DNJZLVZ5?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_tw_ud_dp_2JQWQHWKND2KZVYKXZP5&amp;ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_tw_ud_dp_2JQWQHWKND2KZVYKXZP5&amp;social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_tw_ud_dp_2JQWQHWKND2KZVYKXZP5&amp;skipTwisterOG=1&amp;bestFormat=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Former First Lady Michelle Obama tried to rectify the crisis 15 years ago with the launch of her own initiative to tackle childhood obesity. The Obamas left the White House with American children heavier than before after the first lady&rsquo;s activism was received as another celebrity-infused campaign to manipulate behavior. Corporations raking record profits from a nation of sick children, meanwhile, were recruited into the initiative only to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/19\/melania-trump-must-pick-up-where-michelle-obama-unsuccessfully-left-off-in-tackling-childhood-obesity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sink any real progress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President-elect J.D. Vance wrote about the public&rsquo;s rejection of the Obama obesity campaign in his 2016 memoir <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hillbilly-Elegy-Memoir-Family-Culture\/dp\/0062300547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hillbilly Elegy<\/a><\/em>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us aren&rsquo;t. He wears suits to his job while we wear overalls, if we&rsquo;re lucky enough to have a job at all. His wife tells us that we shouldn&rsquo;t be feeding our children certain foods, and we hate her for it &mdash;<\/em>&nbsp;not because we think she&rsquo;s wrong but because we know she&rsquo;s right<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Obama movement was condescending. The first lady placed blame for the crises on the parents and children whose brains were determined to reach for cupcakes over celery, and she danced with celebrities on TV as if her performances would change anything. The placement of the blame and responsibility for the twin epidemics of obesity and chronic disease is the defining difference between the Obamas&rsquo; initiative and Kennedy&rsquo;s new effort to &ldquo;make America healthy again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Americans at the end of the Obama administration remained hooked on a lucrative industrialized food supply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2023\/09\/19\/addiction-foods-hyperpalatable-tobacco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">designed<\/a> by cigarette companies. Several years later, pharmaceutical giants were more than happy to have their latest generation of weight-loss drugs be <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/10\/forget-playing-outside-big-pharmas-solution-to-childhood-obesity-is-more-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recommended<\/a> by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for children as young as 12.<\/p>\n<p>As recounted in our book, the same institutions now eager to discredit Kennedy&rsquo;s crusade to responsibly regulate Big Food and Big Pharma are the same forces that locked down fitness centers during Covid and exploited compulsory vaccination campaigns that forced Americans to get vaccinated to get their lives back. Pharmaceutical companies made almost $<a href=\"https:\/\/www.somo.nl\/big-pharma-raked-in-usd-90-billion-in-profits-with-covid-19-vaccines\/#:~:text=Pfizer%20alone%20generated%20USD%2035,Sinovac%20pocketed%20USD%2015%20billion.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100 billion<\/a>&nbsp;on the experimental coronavirus vaccines, while junk food sales jumped more than $<a href=\"https:\/\/theshelbyreport.com\/2023\/01\/31\/how-has-the-pandemic-and-inflation-impacted-snack-sales\/#:~:text=Total%20snack%20unit%20sales%20were,off%20by%20just%201%20percent.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10 billion<\/a> over two years. Public health authorities were well aware that obesity was a primary comorbidity to severe outcomes from Covid-19 but incentivized sedentary lifestyles anyway.<\/p>\n<p>While Kennedy&rsquo;s crusade under a bold new Trump administration unintimidated by the food and pharmaceutical industries offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make America healthy again, the federal government can still only do so much. Responsible regulation might make Kellogg&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/18\/the-new-york-times-fact-checks-itself-in-fumbled-fact-check-of-rfk-froot-loops-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fruit Loops<\/a> healthier, for example, but that does not mean healthy. The Trump administration might go to war with Wall Street on K Street, but those efforts amount to virtually nothing if Americans don&rsquo;t do their part to educate themselves on the issues and commit to being fit. <\/p>\n<p>After decades of bad science guiding nutrition guidelines, the public needs a manual to become healthy again. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DNJZLVZ5?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_tw_ud_dp_2JQWQHWKND2KZVYKXZP5&amp;ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_tw_ud_dp_2JQWQHWKND2KZVYKXZP5&amp;social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_tw_ud_dp_2JQWQHWKND2KZVYKXZP5&amp;skipTwisterOG=1&amp;bestFormat=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fat and Unhappy: How &ldquo;Body Positivity&rdquo; Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself)<\/a> <\/em>offers readers exactly that.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is a national correspondent for The Federalist and the co-author of &#8220;Fat and Unhappy: How &#8216;Body Positivity&#8217; Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself).&#8221; He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>. Buy &#8220;Fat and Unhappy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sz7EDAJI1c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pro-abortion Democrat won the HHS nomination due to Americans&#8217; health concerns. My new book, co-authored with Gina Bontempo, explores this issue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2370906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Copy-of-Book-Cover-Featured-Image-4.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32557,11168,4964,8472,16041],"class_list":["post-2370905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-book-review","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-wellness"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Copy-of-Book-Cover-Featured-Image-4.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370909,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370905\/revisions\/2370909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}