Dr. Nusbaum to Newsmax: MAHA Is About Survival, Not Ideology

Making America healthy again isn’t about ideology, but about survival; and if Democrats don’t get honest about the matter, younger voters will start switching sides, Dr. Michael Jay Nusbaum, a clinical assistant professor of surgery at Rutgers Medical School, told Newsmax. 

“If one side doubles down on mandates and censorship and fake food while the other offers real answers, young people are going to switch sides,” Nusbaum told Newsmax’s Ed Henry Friday.

Nusbaum added that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push away from ultraprocessed foods, combined with President Donald Trump’s plans to bring the Presidential Fitness Test back for America’s teenagers, will both clean up the food supply and get people moving. 

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