How RFK Jr. is Dismantling America’s Health Policies

More To The Story : In January, the federal government released updated dietary guidelines for Americans that reimagine the nation’s longtime food pyramid by literally turning it upside down. The guidelines, which once prioritized foods like grains while minimizing fats, now recommend red meat, whole milk, proteins, and healthy fats. It’s one of the most unmistakable ways that US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has brought the Make America Healthy Again movement into the federal government. Over the last year, RFK Jr. has reshaped the country’s vaccine advisory committee with vaccine skeptics, fired thousands of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, and revised the CDC’s stance on the unfounded link between vaccines and autism. The moves, often influenced and cheered by folks in the MAHA movement, are ones that infectious disease epidemiologist Jessica Malaty Rivera says are not merely misguided, but dangerous. On this week’s More To The Story , Rivera examines how Big Ag has influenced the nation’s latest dietary guidelines, whether the US is on the cusp of a national measles outbreak, and why the CDC dropping vaccine recommendations could have potentially long-term and deadly consequences. Producer: Josh Sanburn | Editor: Kara McGuirk-Allison | Theme music: Fernando Arruda and Jim Briggs | Copy editor: Nikki Frick | Digital producer: Artis Curiskis | Deputy executive producer: Taki Telonidis | Executive producer: Brett Myers | Executive editor: James West | Host: Al Letson Read: Measles Cases This Year Near 1,000. That We Know Of. ( Mother Jones ) Listen: Why Trump Deemed Basic Sanitation Illegal DEI ( More To The Story ) Read: RFK Jr. Wants to End the “War” on Unproven Treatments Like Stem Cell Therapy ( Mother Jones ) Donate today at Revealnews.org/more

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How RFK Jr. is Dismantling America’s Health Policies is an episode from Reveal by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX.

This episode is 27:50 long.

This episode was published on Mar 11, 2026.

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