05/07/2025
The Trump administration is a treacherous danger to the country and the world.
To be fair (and believe me, I don’t give this sadistic administration benefit of the doubt lightly), the White House statement referenced in the image (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/ ) basically says that those *health problems* are a dire threat, not the people who have them.
And that’s actually true. In the United States we waste an enormous amount of money, experience untold misery, and live shorter, less productive lives because of these health problems.  
An annoying thing about RFK is that some of what he says is correct. There *is* a lot we can do to reduce the “diseases of civilization,” including heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, cancer, and others. There’s nothing crackpot about that – it is based in solid and well studied science. We *should* be eating better, moving more, sitting less, being more social, and getting out in nature.
Those are things I have been pushing for for years. We have “health insurance,“ that will pay for drugs and surgeries, but won’t pay for even a few sessions with a personal trainer or health coach to get people started down the road to better fitness and lifelonghealth. That kind of help should be available to everyone, not only the privileged. 
The problem with RFK, and this whole administration, is they think that if they don’t measure it, and don’t talk about it, and stop studying it, it will go away. (Look at what they are doing to trans people, and look at what they are doing about climate change.)
Or they endorse bogus treatments that not only don’t help people, they actively cause harm. 
A responsible and proactive government could produce PR campaigns, offer free activities, create inspiring videos, etc., to get people out and moving. It could mandate/encourage/reward businesses who provide breaks where employees have time to go for a walk, a place to move, lift, and stretch, have healthy snacks available, etc. It could provide community programs to create or clean up safe outdoor spaces to walk, run, and play.
It could encourage and enable people to spend time together in stable, supportive groups of friends – that’s one of the things *most effective* for health and longevity! That might look like requiring/encouraging companies to have predictable, steady work schedules, so that people *can* have social lives, instead of being on call and off-balance every day. Or requiring the employers pay a living wage, so people don’t have to work two jobs just to get by, barely. There are a very few programs like this, but they aren’t well known, and they need a lot more attention and funding. 
Instead, what these boneheads want to do is take away people’s medications, say they don’t have a real problem, and then declare that the issue never existed. That’s just cruel and stupid.
