For generations, the United States deliberately chose to fund and support science. And that choice led to safer treatments, cleaner air and water, medical breakthroughs, economic growth, and global leadership in innovation. But this administration is now intentionally hollowing out our scientific infrastructure, and the consequences will affect all of us. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
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For generations, the United States deliberately chose to fund and support science. And that choice led to safer treatments, cleaner air and water, medical breakthroughs, economic growth, and global leadership in innovation. But this administration is now intentionally hollowing out our scientific infrastructure, and the consequences will affect all of us. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
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No, it’s not illegal to make formula without seed oils in the U.S. And no, this chiropractor did not uncover something that escaped nutrition scientists, chemists, pediatricians, dietitians, the FDA, EFSA, Health Canada, or every major global regulatory body. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
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No, it’s not illegal to make formula without seed oils in the U.S. And no, this chiropractor did not uncover something that escaped nutrition scientists, chemists, pediatricians, dietitians, the FDA, EFSA, Health Canada, or every major global regulatory body. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
1.3M viewsJul 22, 2025
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Imagine looking around at all the systems in this country that are stacked against people’s health and deciding that Red 40, seed oils, and ingredient labels are where you want to spend all of your energy. It’s a gift to the pro-industry systems that are enriching corporations and undermining the health of Americans. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
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Imagine looking around at all the systems in this country that are stacked against people’s health and deciding that Red 40, seed oils, and ingredient labels are where you want to spend all of your energy. It’s a gift to the pro-industry systems that are enriching corporations and undermining the health of Americans. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
690K viewsSep 2, 2025
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Too many people conflate science with politics and corporate lobbying. But they’re not the same thing. When we blur those lines, people lose trust in the science itself. And that’s exactly what powerful interests want, because it makes it easier to dismiss evidence in favor of ideology or profit. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
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Too many people conflate science with politics and corporate lobbying. But they’re not the same thing. When we blur those lines, people lose trust in the science itself. And that’s exactly what powerful interests want, because it makes it easier to dismiss evidence in favor of ideology or profit. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
188.7K viewsOct 2, 2025
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The chronic disease issue in the United States is the result of decades of policies and systems that prioritize profits over public health. It isn’t just a medical issue - it's a societal and economic crisis that affects every aspect of our lives. And low-income populations are disproportionately affected by the chronic disease epidemic, facing higher rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other preventable conditions. This disparity has led to a staggering 15-year life expectancy gap fo
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The chronic disease issue in the United States is the result of decades of policies and systems that prioritize profits over public health. It isn’t just a medical issue - it's a societal and economic crisis that affects every aspect of our lives. And low-income populations are disproportionately affected by the chronic disease epidemic, facing higher rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other preventable conditions. This disparity has led to a staggering 15-year life expectancy gap fo
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Busting Nutrition Myths with Dr. Jessica Knurick
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Busting Nutrition Myths with Dr. Jessica Knurick
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The thing about public health programs is that they’re a victim of their own success. When they work, no one notices, which makes them easy to attack. But when they don’t, we’re reminded just how much they were protecting us from. For more, check the recall information on either the CDC or FDA websites. And throw away any recalled food. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
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The thing about public health programs is that they’re a victim of their own success. When they work, no one notices, which makes them easy to attack. But when they don’t, we’re reminded just how much they were protecting us from. For more, check the recall information on either the CDC or FDA websites. And throw away any recalled food. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
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Not everything in the wellness industry is harmful or useless, of course. There are products and services that genuinely help people (most of which are not supplements). But it is an industry. And industries don't grow by emphasizing the basics that cost little and can't be monetized. Keep that context in mind as you scroll this time of year. 🤍 | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
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The Nutrition Lies We All Fell For
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YouTubeRich Roll
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The Truth About the MAHA Movement — with Dr. Jessica Knurick | Prof G Conversations
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Public Health Policies and MAHA Mythbusters with Dr. Jessica Knurick
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🚫 Don’t Fall for These Health Myths & Nutrition Lies 😱 with Dr. Jessica Knurick
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Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN on Instagram: "Fewer people with insurance means higher costs for everyone, longer ER waits, and a sicker population that’s more expensive to care for. It’s the opposite of making America healthy “again.”"
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Some good news! 👏 Although the constant policy whiplash within HHS is reckless and creates real harm for providers, workers, and vulnerable communities. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
277.9K views9 months ago
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Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN on Instagram: "The thing about public health programs is that they’re a victim of their own success. When they work, no one notices, which makes them easy to attack. But when they don’t, we’re reminded just how much they were protecting us from. For more, check the recall information on either the CDC or FDA websites. And throw away any recalled food."
1.6M views11 months ago
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Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN on Instagram: "Not everything in the wellness industry is harmful or useless, of course. There are products and services that genuinely help people (most of which are not supplements). But it is an industry. And industries don’t grow by emphasizing the basics that cost little and can’t be monetized. Keep that context in mind as you scroll this time of year. 🤍"
318.5K views10 months ago
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Some background on dietary supplements as we head into their biggest season of the year. We can thank politicans and lobbyists for the lack of regulation, not the FDA. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
283.4K views10 months ago
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Dr. Jessica Knurick: Is American Food Actually Poison? Debunking the MAHA Movement & Nutrition Myths
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YouTubeTrevor Noah
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Make America Healthy Again: Toxic Food or Toxic Information? | Dr Jessica Knurick | Dr Karan
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Nutrition Scientist: Don't Blame Doctors For The Health Crisis
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YouTubeMighty Pursuit
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Longevity advice ⬇️ ✔️Eat a diet rich in fiber, fruits, vegetables, protein, and whole grains, and low in excess sugar, sodium, and low-nutrient ultra-processed foods. ✔️Be physically active (aerobic and strength training). ✔️Get adequate, consistent sleep. ✔️Maintain social connections. ✔️Don’t smoke and reduce substance/alcohol use. ✔️Control blood pressure and blood glucose. ✔️Get recommended vaccinations to prevent serious infections. ✔️Treat mental health conditions. ✔️Maintain good oral he
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For those that want European food additive regulation, I beg you to consider the other investments Europe makes to improving the health of its citizens. Countries with universal healthcare, paid leave, and other social supports have healthier workers, lower turnover, and stronger productivity (PMID: 30277601, 39383455, 29141632, 32473671, 38603276, 28692009, 32061298). A healthy population is both a public health strategy and an economic strategy. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
448.1K viewsSep 19, 2025
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Drug use and overdose are serious public health challenges that demand real solutions. But instead of relying on politicians who inflate statistics to spread fear, we should be guided by evidence-based strategies shown to save lives. When our leaders distort numbers to push ideological agendas, it distracts from what actually works and keeps us from tackling the crisis head-on. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
Sep 15, 2025
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This bill is a public health disaster. It takes away essential services from low-income Americans just to pay for tax breaks that will overwhelmingly benefit corporations and the wealthiest Americans. SNAP helps 42 million Americans, including 1 in 5 children, get enough to eat. And Medicaid provides health coverage to 1 in 5 Americans, including 40% of all children and 60% of nursing home residents. Despite the rhetoric, fraud rates are routinely under 2%, and most of it comes from providers, n
640.6K viewsJun 1, 2025
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The problem isn’t the Dietary Guidelines or the food pyramid that hasn’t been used in nearly 15 years. It’s the system that makes them nearly impossible to follow. And the leaders who use our genuine concern as a political tool. We should be insulted by how blatantly they lie to our faces and expect applause for it. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
298.1K viewsJun 12, 2025
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Thanks to Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) for sponsoring this video. Find their Uncompromised Dietary Guidelines, which are based on the original scientific report, here: https://bit.ly/CSPIGuidelines Note: the majority of researchers who wrote the scientific justification report have conflicts of interest with meat, dairy, and/or supplement companies that stand to profit from these new guidelines. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
651.7K views9 months ago
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Pay attention to what they do. Not what they say. ‼️ Agriculture policy shapes our food environment and what ends up on our plates. Right now, USDA policies and funding cuts are propping up Big Agribusiness while slashing support for small farmers, schools, and families. By defunding nutrition programs that connected local producers to communities, we're reinforcing a food system built around shelf-stable, ultra-processed products, while doing nothing to expand access to fresh, local food. | Jes
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If you’ve felt frustrated with our public health system, many of us are right there with you. The Democratic Party has made plenty of compromises over the years, and there’s still a long way to go when it comes to putting public health ahead of corporate interests. But the difference between the two parties on public health is significant.While Democrats have sometimes been slow or incomplete in their reforms, Republican leadership, especially under Trump, has pursued one of the most aggressivel
522.2K viewsAug 2, 2025
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MAHA has never been about improving the health of Americans. It was a political movement to get votes. Food dye and fluoride bans will not improve our health and are a distraction while they dismantle the very systems that actually do, like public health infrastructure, nutrition assistance, environmental protections, and science itself. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
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You can achieve public health goals under capitalism. Just not meaningfully under a version that deregulates everything, guts public programs, and treats health as a product for the privileged. This issue is too often presented as a black-and-white choice. You’re either for deregulated, ruthless capitalism or you’re a Marxist who wants to punish success and eliminate private enterprise. But that’s a false dichotomy. We can (and should) live in a system that rewards innovation and allows people t
22.9K viewsMay 10, 2025
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If we want fewer contaminants in our food and water, we need to focus on the root cause. Also, shutting down the EPA's research arm is incredibly reckless. The Office of Research and Development is the group that conducts and reviews the science behind EPA policies. They determine how much of a substance, like lead, arsenic, or PFAS, is actually harmful to human health. They also identify and track emerging threats from environmental contaminants. Without them, it opens the door for polluters to
87.2K viewsJul 21, 2025
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1 in 5 Americans are enrolled in Medicaid and 12% rely on SNAP benefits. Millions of those people work full-time and still need assistance. Not because of personal failure, but because we've built an economy that rewards profits over people. This is a policy choice. And it's directly negatively impacting public health. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
436.7K viewsJun 27, 2025
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The American food system wasn’t built for our health. It was built for corporate profit. Decades of policy decisions have shaped a food environment where ~70% of it is ultra-processed, and very few Americans are meeting nutrition guidelines. But real change won’t come from banning food dyes or seed oils. It starts with fixing the systems that got us here. Because we can’t shop our way out of this. We need systemic change. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
33.5K viewsMay 2, 2025
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We all make individual choices within systems. And those systems can be set up to support success or failure depending on our priorities. We have strong, consistent evidence on the general recommendations for optimizing personal health. I’m much more interested in understanding why most Americans don’t meet these recommendations, and how we can better align our systems and policies to support the adoption of those strategies. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
160K viewsJul 8, 2025
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Make America Healthy Again isn’t a health movement 📣 It’s a Trojan horse. A political slogan used to distract us while they gut public health agencies, roll back environmental protections, and advance an anti-vaccine agenda. All while pushing policies that will make Americans sicker, not healthier. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
776.3K viewsMay 27, 2025
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Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN on Instagram: "The problem is very clearly guns. Mental health issues exist in countries all around the world, but the unimaginable number of school shootings we face every year is a uniquely American problem. And we already have strong evidence that common sense gun safety laws save lives. Of course we should care about mental health too, but while this administration offers “thoughts and prayers” after another tragedy, it is actively gutting mental health services for
2.7M viewsAug 28, 2025
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If you’re looking for a nutrition assistance program that helps the most vulnerable access nutrient-dense foods and improve health outcomes, WIC is it. And if you thought the push to cut soda or “processed foods” from SNAP was really about health, this should make it clear that it was never about what low-income people are buying. It’s about finding any excuse to gut these programs. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
191.7K viewsJun 4, 2025
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They are proposing to cut funding to nutrition and health programs (which will worsen public health) in order to fund tax cuts that will overwhelmingly benefit corporations and wealthy people. And the only way they are able to do it, without overwhelming resistance, is by spreading propaganda like this. Elon reshared this info about Medicare and Medicaid findings, knowing full well that DOGE didn’t uncover the information (which was inaccurately reported anyway) - GAO, a government agency dedica
288.1K viewsFeb 27, 2025
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It’s not satire. 🤦‍♀️ People can't afford groceries. We cut nearly $200 billion from SNAP and gutted programs that supported food banks. And Fox News is out here reframing that reality as a "big comeback" for Hamburger Helper. MAHA. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
470.8K viewsOct 23, 2025
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Don’t ask me whether capitalism is the best economic system for profits and wealth. That’s not my area and it’s not the argument I’m making. What I can tell you is that the food environment we live in, where around 70% of what’s available is ultraprocessed, the chronic underinvestment in public health, and the staggering disparities in health outcomes in the U.S. are all direct results of deregulated capitalism. If we actually care about improving our food system, advancing health equity, and pr
61K viewsApr 28, 2025
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So many people are taught to see social programs like Medicaid, SNAP, or housing assistance as “wasteful spending.” But these are some of the most effective investments we make in public health, stability, and long-term economic strength. How about we look at the real waste: $600 billion lost each year to tax evasion, mostly by the ultra-wealthy. Billions in subsidies to fossil fuel giants who are already wildly profitable and actively hurting public health and our environment. Bloated military
80.9K viewsMay 25, 2025
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You can’t claim to care about toxins in our food and water, and then support the very political party that’s actively dismantling the environmental protections that keep those toxins out. You can’t fear-monger about heavy metals in our food and infant formula, while ignoring the role of industrial pollution, fracking, and deregulation in putting those metals there in the first place. And you definitely can’t turn around and profit off unregulated $89 MLM heavy metal binders with little to no evi
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Nutrition and public health expert Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN, spoke with MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, MS, MA, during a webinar on the new U.S. dietary guidelines. Here she breaks down what "ultra-processed" actually means, and why definitions (or lack thereof) matter in policy. For more, follow MedPage Today. | MedPage Today
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We are now 35 days into the second longest government shutdown in history, with millions of families uncertain about their next meal, and millions more facing surging healthcare premium costs come January if ACA subsidies expire. Public health, at its core, is about protecting people and making sure everyone, especially the most vulnerable, has access to food, care, and stability. Healthcare and nutrition assistance are two of the most important public health programs we have, yet both are being
596.1K views1 year ago
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It’s like this in the USA because of decades worth of pro-corporation policies that prioritize profits and growth above all other values, including people’s health. The problem is multifactorial and systemic, and the solutions must tackle the root causes, including economic policies, agricultural systems, corporate influence, and public health investment. Some (not all) of those solutions include: ✅Reforming agricultural subsidies toward fruits, vegetables, and legumes, and incentivizing farmers
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Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN on Instagram: "The chronic disease rates in this country are not because of bad science. They’re because of bad policy. ‼️ We know what largely causes chronic disease - poor nutrition, physical inactivity, stress, inadequate sleep, environmental exposures, lack of access to care, and more. This isn’t new. We’ve had strong research for decades. But instead of acting on the science, this administration is: ❌ Slashing $1B from local food systems and school nutrition ❌ Prop
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Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN on Instagram: "Make America Healthy Again isn’t a health movement 📣 It’s a Trojan horse. A political slogan used to distract us while they gut public health agencies, roll back environmental protections, and advance an anti-vaccine agenda. All while pushing policies that will make Americans sicker, not healthier."
2.4M viewsMay 27, 2025
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Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN on Instagram: "Calley is pushing a misleading narrative, not to make people healthier, but to distract us while the current administration quietly advances a pro-corporation, pro-billionaire agenda. His other claim that a “Biden report” says 93% of ultra-processed foods could be healthy is also, unsurprisingly, inaccurate. That wasn’t a Biden report. It was a USDA study examining ultra-processed foods as a scientific classification using the NOVA classification system.
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Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN on Instagram: "You can’t claim to care about toxins in our food and water, and then support the very political party that’s actively dismantling the environmental protections that keep those toxins out. You can’t fear-monger about heavy metals in our food and infant formula, while ignoring the role of industrial pollution, fracking, and deregulation in putting those metals there in the first place. And you definitely can’t turn around and profit off unregulated $89 MLM
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Nutrition for a Healthy Life
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These healthcare cuts and rising premiums aren’t a Democrat or Republican issue. They’ll hurt families across the board. When more people are uninsured, they still get sick. But without regular access to affordable care, they delay treatment until it’s urgent, often ending up in the ER where care is far more expensive. And when hospitals treat those patients, those costs don’t disappear. They get shifted to the rest of us through higher premiums, hospital fees, and overall healthcare spending. T
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Thanks to @this.is.mallory for putting this absurdity together. She's a great follow. Here's to less pseudoscientific wellness grift and more critical thinking and discernment in 2026. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
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It’s like this in the US because of decades worth of pro-corporation policies that prioritize profits and growth above all other values, including people’s health. The problem is multifactorial and systemic, and the solutions must tackle the root causes, including economic policies, agricultural systems, corporate influence, and public health investment. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
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If you already have your basic needs met and don’t face multiple systemic barriers to health, then biohack and optimize away. Just don’t confuse that with good public health policy, because it’s not. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
35.1K viewsMay 8, 2025
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So much of what we think of as “personal health” is actually shaped by systems that were designed for industry profit, often at the expense of people’s health. Our food environment was built to maximize profits for large agribusiness and food manufacturers, not to nourish communities. Our healthcare system was built around insurance companies, pharma, and hospital profits, not affordable, quality care. Our built environment was designed to serve automobile and development profits, not walkable n
493.9K viewsAug 20, 2025
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Saying an ingredient is harmful just because it’s also used elsewhere is misleading and distracts from meaningful discussions about health. Importantly, this isn’t about promoting ultraprocessed foods—I’m not saying we should consume large amounts of them. It’s about correcting misleading information so we can make smart, informed choices about what we eat, based on accurate information instead of fear. 💡 | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
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You don’t end the “chronic disease epidemic” by increasing inequality and cutting some of the most important public health programs we have. Call your senators (Call script in my last post). *the 20 million people losing health insurance updated number was just released a couple of hours ago based on new amendments. | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
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MAHA keeps “discovering” public health programs that already exist — and realizing they really like them. Oklahoma’s SB 806 is great, as long as it doesn’t mean less Medicaid coverage for medical needs. If signed and approved, it would allow Medicaid to cover nutrition counseling, food prescriptions, pantry stocking, and medically supportive meals. And it supports local food systems, which I love.But it’s not the first. Programs like this already exist in Massachusetts, California, Oregon, North
41K viewsMay 7, 2025
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Hi - We can have honest conversations about important changes to our food supply and improvements in public health, which should always include discussions about the social determinants of health, without relying on people spreading lies and propaganda for their own personal gain. ✌️ | Jessica Knurick, PhD, RD
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When, over the last year, your administration has: -Imposed a freeze on U.S. HIV foreign aid -Restricted PEPFAR to a limited set of services, leaving most HIV prevention programs — including PrEP for the general population — unable to operate -Moved to dismantle USAID's global-health infrastructure, severely reducing the capacity of the main agency that delivers PEPFAR's programs -Terminated a large share of global health grants, including many HIV treatment and prevention awards relied on by mi
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Democrats in Congress are currently fighting to protect healthcare for millions of Americans, and keep healthcare premiums lower for millions more. An analysis by a nonpartisan health policy organization found that a combination of rising premiums and the loss of ACA tax credits could result in people paying 75% more for coverage next year. And when premiums jump to that level? People stop paying and they drop their coverage, which means even more people will be uninsured. And you know what happ
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Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted 26–3 to advance a bill that would increase NIH funding by $400 million, which was a direct, bipartisan rejection of the Trump administration’s proposal to slash the agency’s budget by 40%. That vote is encouraging and matters. But this is just one step. NIH funding still has to make it through the full Senate, then the House, and then avoid being blocked by the administration. The NIH funds the science that saves lives. From cancer treatments
1.9M viewsAug 5, 2025
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The problem isn’t the Dietary Guidelines. The problem is that over 90% of Americans don’t follow them because the systems that surround us make it hard to. Because: -Our food system is built for corporate profit, not people’s health. -Healthy food is often more expensive, harder to access, and aggressively out-marketed. -We underfund school meals, nutrition education, and public health programs. -And structural barriers, like poverty, time, and lack of support, make it hard for people to turn gu
2.3M viewsAug 11, 2025
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Listen, I get that it feels easy to blame all our problems on the fact that we have the unhealthy version of skittles and if we just changed the color additives, we could just keep eating skittles and get healthier. But that’s not it. We over-consume high sugar, low nutrient ultra processed foods (like Skittles), 95% of us don’t meet fiber guidelines. 90% of us aren’t meeting vegetable intake guidelines. More than half of us are eating more than the recommended amount of added sugars every singl
164.9K viewsApr 14, 2025
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They want you to stop trusting scientists, and trust only them. But then they turn around and use research and data collected by those very same scientists to support their claims. Then they cherry-pick the findings and overstate the conclusions far beyond what the evidence actually shows. And when the scientific community pushes back, they say you can’t trust them — even though the entire narrative they’re pushing is built on their work. Hard to tell. Is it nearly the entire scientific communit
1.1M viewsSep 23, 2025
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The U.S. food environment, healthcare system, and social determinants of health disproportionately harm low-income populations. As a result, health outcomes like obesity, chronic disease, and life expectancy show staggering disparities. Men in the highest income groups live 15 years longer than those in the lowest, and for women, the gap is 10 years (PMID: 27063997). Improving the health of Americans means focusing on those struggling the most. It means policies that make nutritious food accessi
215.6K viewsApr 21, 2025
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What has built our food system: Decades of agricultural policy, commodity subsidies, trade policy, weak antitrust enforcement, corporate consolidation, permissive marketing rules, labor policy, deregulation, and a profit-driven food industry. What has not built our food system: SNAP. A nutrition assistance program that helps low-income families afford the groceries that are already available to them. Her manipulative messaging here is a deliberate strategy to protect industry profits, preserve t
1.4M views9 months ago
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Pseudoscience often sounds convincing because it starts with something true and then strips away the context. That’s how you end up with takes like “fruit makes you fat” or “pickles prevent cavities” (see previous video) when the actual evidence shows the opposite. Whole fruit, with its fiber, antioxidants, polyphenols, and satiety factor, has consistently been shown to protect against obesity, heart disease, fatty liver disease, and more. Anxiety-inducing misinformation is a far bigger problem
2.1M viewsAug 18, 2025
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SNAP could end in some states
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Babies were perfectly fine 100 years ago!?
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