Make America Healthy Actually

Aug 28

You came here for nutrition tips and maybe some good-natured dunking on diet fads, not a deep dive into politics. But here’s the thing: food and health are political. And with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushing his “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda, it’s impossible to ignore how his take on fitness, food, and public health is pulling people into his camp.

On the surface, MAHA taps into legitimate concerns: ultra-processed foods, chronic disease, and corporate influence on health policy. But beneath the slogans, the movement leans heavily on personal responsibility while offering little in the way of real solutions.

In this episode of Your Diet Sucks, Zoë and Kylee examine why health messaging is so easy to politicize, how diet culture and politics overlap, and what it really takes to make America healthy, actually.

Zoë Rom

Zoë Rom is a science and environmental journalist with bylines in The New York Times, Outside, and High Country News. She co-hosts Your Diet Sucks, an evidence-based nutrition and wellness podcast, with registered dietitian Kylee Van Horn, RDN, where they investigate how wellness culture distorts science and how athletes can do better. A Colorado-based ultrarunner, she finished second at the Leadville Trail 100 and top five at Run Rabbit Run 100. Her reporting and commentary focus on the intersection of sport, science, and the wellness industry's long history of selling women their own anxieties.