Make America Healthy Again!

SteynonLine ^ | February 14, 2025 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

~I rejoice in the confirmation of RFK Jr as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services (no thanks to longtime Chinese asset Mitch McConnell). "Make America Healthy Again" is the indispensable component of "Make America Great Again" - because the most obvious sign of what's gone wrong in the country is to take a walk down any main street. No one would bet the future on a country that has debauched its human capital the way the United States has. So here are the new cabinet secretary's remarks in full:

As Bobby Kennedy pointed out on The Mark Steyn Show, Americans are the most medicated people on the planet and are the unhealthiest in the developed world; in particular, as RFK also noted on our show, our children are the world's most medicated children, and have accelerating rates of childhood obesity, childhood diabetes, childhood heart disease. A grade-school diagnosis of diabetes can take up to two decades off your lifespan.

So what's the answer? Further enriching Blue Cross-Blue Shield? Americans pay more for health care than anybody else, and have lousier outcomes, starting with the most basic indicator of all - life expectancy: According to the UN, from the Swiss to the Australians, the list of peoples that enjoy an extra half-decade of life over Americans lengthens year on year. In the 2023 UN rankings, the United States comes in at Number Fifty-Five on the life-expectancy Hit Parade; for purposes of comparison, Albania - where the health-care system involves swimming to Italy - is at Fifty-Three. By 2022 America's annual spending on health care was twelve-and-a-half grand per capita; Albania's was under five hundred bucks - which is less than your co-pay on a Covid anal swab; the word "co-pay" does not exist in Albanian.

[yldstrk]

Article is almost impossible to make sense of.

[Bob434]

Last time gov “made America healthy” they tried banning foi gras, and before that they banned lard or whatever it was that McDonald’s used to use in their fries, and now the fries taste like crap. Hopefully the whole “make America healthy” campaign focuses just on ingreidn4ts that are truly toxic like some of the dyes in foods, and other ingredients which are just nasty to health, and lays off other foods that though not the healthiest, folks realize that there might be a risk, but are able to enjoy it once in awhile, and the gov just reminds folks thst things like certain fats if eaten too much are unhealthy.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Drago]

Beef tallow was the secret to great McD’s fries. They got chided into using ultra-processed seed oil (canola) instead.

https://jalopnik.com/your-cooking-oil-was-originally-created-to-keep-warship-1851657229

[Bob434]

Thanks, i knew it was something yummy that they used

[Socon-Econ]

I want to chose what I eat, as long as I know what’s in it.

And there’s nothing healthy about believing that vaccines cause autism.

[Twotone]

Vaccines are certainly reasonably suspect in autism when we’ve gone to a few vaccines to nearly 70, & are giving them almost at birth in many cases, instead of waiting until a child has a fully developed immune system.

What I want to see from RFK is real studies, with those benefiting not involved in the results. We can no longer count on the “science” because the science that’s being done is corrupt.

[hoosierham]

If autism rates soar in step with vastly increased vacinnes there is reason to doubt your statement.

The healthcare industry depends on there being sick people.A healthy populace means less money for Big Pharma.
Pushing drugs through incessant television,radio,internet,and print ads is a symptom.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Two interesting correlations to the increase in autism are the increase in cesarean delivery, and
a decrease in breast feeding.

A baby born naturally is exposed to all kinds of the mother's microbes including a bit of poop
which primes and activates the infant's immune system. And a baby who is breast fed gets the
rare immune builder colostrum (mother's first milk) for which there is no substitute:

Colostrum, is a nutrient-dense and highly concentrated form of milk produced
immediately after giving birth. It is rich in antibodies and other bioactives that help
activate a newborn's immune system. [Wikipedia]

And it is suspected that autism is a response to a faulty immune system during early childhood.
To think that God had this all figured out long before the first human even appeared staggers the
mind.

[Albion Wilde]

Mark knocks it out of the park with this one! No one can turn the knife with mere words the way he can.

[Albion Wilde]

there’s nothing healthy about believing that vaccines cause autism.

Autism? Not sure; but I find it impossible to believe that this many and this combination of man-made potions can result in better health for a growing baby or child: