HHS Secretary Kennedy Puts American Health Back on Track/ Epoch Times
OPINION
HHS Secretary Kennedy Puts American Health Back on Track
He is challenging entrenched assumptions and putting health—not bureaucracy—first.
Commentary
America’s health has been in steady decline. Chronic disease is rising, life expectancy is falling, and more children are getting sick at younger ages. Despite medical breakthroughs, our system leans too heavily on drugs and procedures instead of preventing illness in the first place. The costs—to our health and our economy—are staggering.
President Trump and Secretary Kennedy are changing course. They are advancing a vision America has needed for decades: one that tackles the root causes of disease and restores public health.
As Health and Human Services career physicians, with more than 13 years of combined service at HHS, we strongly support this direction. Secretary Kennedy has re-centered the department on rigorous science and free inquiry, rejecting censorship and political interference. He is challenging entrenched assumptions and putting health—not bureaucracy—first.
We both cared for patients—Dr. Fink as an endocrinologist and Dr. Brenner as preventive medicine physician—struggling with chronic disease before joining HHS. We saw patients once considered “incurable” regain health through achievable lifestyle changes. Yet too often, the medical establishment tells patients their conditions are “lifelong” and treatable only with medications or procedures. This strips them of hope and ignores the reality that many conditions are preventable—and in some cases reversible.
Children bear the brunt of this failure. More than one-third of U.S. children and adolescents have excess body weight, and more than one-quarter have a mental, behavioral, or developmental disorder. Too much screen time, too little exercise, and diets dominated by ultra-processed food are driving these trends—and stealing years of healthy life.
Secretary Kennedy is taking decisive action. HHS is improving access to nutritious food in schools and communities, strengthening federal nutrition programs, and reforming food safety by removing harmful additives. Medical schools are now encouraged to teach nutrition as part of core training, ensuring doctors understand the importance of diet. The reestablished Presidential Fitness Test is helping schools and families make daily physical activity a foundation of health. These steps empower families with the tools to build resilience and lifelong wellness.
Equally important, Secretary Kennedy is rebuilding public trust. He has called on HHS staff to check personal bias, reject self-censorship, and embrace open debate. He has made radical transparency the standard: Americans deserve to know how health recommendations are developed, what evidence supports them, and how to make informed choices with their physicians.
This is a turning point. For too long, our system managed sickness instead of promoting health. Now, under President Trump and Secretary Kennedy, we are moving toward prevention, nutrition, exercise, and open dialogue with the American people.
The path forward is clear. With leadership committed to gold-standard science and to the well being of future generations, America can reverse its decline and build a healthier, stronger, more hopeful nation.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Thank God for RFK Jr. Sometimes it seems like only older people seem to know that vaccines were not a common thing when they were growing up. They were something given only for a few very specific horrible diseases. That was it. Maybe 4?
We all got chicken pox and other childhood diseases and survived just fine. Sure, we might have gotten sick and felt lousy for a week-two and then our immune system would finish doing it's job and we'd get well. It's a wonder if any of the kids and young people today can even recover from a cold or flu bug because of how compromised their innate immune system has become with all the myriad of so called vaccines. It's so obviously insane and unnecessary. How do these "CDC, FDA, HHS or NIH" people that back the childhood vaccine schedule possibly justify this to themselves? It has to be either they're totally brainwashed/indoctrinated or compromised with money/possible later position in BigPharma, or is it a control file?
Thanks Dr. Nass. God bless you always.
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