FDA Commissioner Nominee Says He’ll Focus on Food and Health

In a Senate hearing that focused more on vaccines and the safety of the abortion drug mifepristone than the Food and Drug Adms’inistration’s (FDA) oversight of what Americans eat, President Trump’s nominee for FDA Commissioner said Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary, had started a grassroots movement around healthy foods.

“Childhood obesity is not a willpower problem, and the rise of early onset Alzheimer’s is not a genetic cause,” Marty Makary said in his opening statement. “We should be and we will be addressing food as it impacts our health.”

Makary is an accomplished surgeon and public policy researcher at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He’s also been an outspoken critic of the medical establishment’s emphasis on disease treatment over prevention for years. Before the presidential election, he emerged as a close Kennedy ally and supporter…