During a cabinet meeting Tuesday, Kennedy said that he and Education Secretary Linda McMahon are collaborating on “forcing” medical schools and accreditors to include nutrition studies. Kennedy has campaigned for greater diet-related studies since he first joined President Donald Trump’s team last fall.
“If you come out of a medical school under the Trump administration, you are going to know about diet,” Kennedy said during the cabinet meeting
“Every future physician should master the language of prevention before they even touch a stethoscope,” Kennedy said.
Earlier this year, Kennedy said that his agency would revoke or withhold funds from medical schools that don’t implement nutrition curriculum.
But his latest comments, and a leaked draft of the second Make America Healthy Again Commission report, signal a new approach. The report, which set out to provide policy recommendations to address chronic diseases among children, also suggests accreditation reform to increase nutrition studies in medical schools.
