US health secretary says Americans should eat ‘zero’ sugar and announces plans to eliminate eight synthetic food dyesThe US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr on Tuesday called sugar “poison” and recommended that Americans eat “zero” added sugar in their food, while acknowledging that the federal government was unlikely to be able to eliminate it from products.Kennedy, however, said that better labeling was needed for foods and that new government guidelines on nutrition would recommend people avoid sugar completely. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2025-04-22 23:27:00
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RFK Jr calls sugar ‘poison’ but says government probably can’t eliminate it
