All it takes is a look for Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to know if a child is healthy or not.
That was the claim he made in a speech Wednesday at the Texas Capitol in Austin, per Mediaite.
Kennedy said he can tell if a child is healthy by looking at their faces and body movements.
“I had 11 brothers and sisters, I had about 70 first cousins, and I never saw anybody with diabetes,” Kennedy said. “I never knew anybody with a food allergy. I never knew anybody with autism.”
“And I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street, and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation,” he continued. “You can tell from their faces, from their body movements, and from their lack of social connection, and I know that that’s not how our children are supposed to look.”
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Kennedy was on hand in Austin as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a “Make America Healthy Again” bill.
The bill will require food companies remove certain additives and add warning labels to their products.
Kennedy praised Texas’ efforts in making changes for a healthy America.
“There are no states, with the possible exception of Louisiana, that have done more far-reaching legislation than this, and there’s no state that fought a harder battle to get here,” Kennedy said.
He added Texas is “leading the nation” in the MAHA push.
“Texas is doing its part to make Texas healthy again by the laws I’m signing today,” Abbott said.
Kennedy also talked about Americans having a choice in their medical care, The Texas Tribune reported.
Kennedy compared states trying to step in between the patient and doctor to “medical tyranny that is brutal and savage and merciless and lethal.”
“We need to return our medical profession to an obligation not to serve state interests or state agendas, but to treat their patients,” he added.
Earlier this month Kennedy said President Donald Trump is keeping him on his toes in his quest to make Americans healthier, per Mediaite.
Trump calls him “three or four times a week” to ask, “Why aren’t people healthier yet?”
“He promised to make America healthy again,” said Kennedy. “So he’s keeping me under pressure.”
“I told President Trump that we are going to end the chronic disease epidemic. We can’t do it from Washington,” Kennedy said at Wednesday’s ceremony, NBC News reported.
