S2.E2. MAHA Strategy Part 2: Realigning Whose Incentives?
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
S2.E2. MAHA Strategy Part 2: Realigning Whose Incentives?
-
Narrated by:
-
By:
The MAHA Commission's September 2025 Strategy Report laid out four pillars for tackling childhood chronic disease. Today Jamie and Melissa Anne are digging into Pillar 2: "Realigning Incentives" — a sprawling grab-bag of food labeling, sunscreen modernization, dietary guidelines, synthetic dye phase-outs, and the still-undefined "ultra-processed food."
What's actually been accomplished? We unpack why U.S. sunscreen regulation lags behind Europe and Asia, why the new upside-down food pyramid is a confusing step backward, who really profits from the petroleum-based dye phase-out (hint: not the oil industry), and why a federal definition of "ultra-processed food" keeps slipping its deadline. Underneath it all: a movement skilled at capitalizing on parental fear while ignoring the structural drivers of children's health: hunger, poverty, healthcare access, pollution, and gun violence.
You can take red dye out of Swedish Fish, but it won't help a kid who comes home to an empty fridge.
🎙️ Subscribe to Nursing the Nation, leave us a 5-star review, and find us on Substack — where you can now sponsor our work.
SINCE TAPING: The FDA announced June 9, 2026 that they have approved an additional sunscreen ingredient.