The Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has the mission of making the United States again healthy, and is addressing the most obese state in the country, and its governor.
The governor of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey, R and Kennedy, celebrated a joint event on Friday to announce the prohibition of certain food dyes. The governor also took the opportunity to announce that his status has presented an exemption that would prohibit participants with the Supplementary Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) to use the benefits to buy soft drinks.
Morrisey celebrated the measure, saying that his condition was “putting the ‘nutrition’ again in the complementary nutritional assistance program.”
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“I urge all governors to follow the example of Western Virginia and present an exemption to the USDA to eliminate Snap soft drinks. If there is anything we can agree on, you should eliminate soda subsidies financed by taxpayers for low -income children,” Kennedy said, “Kennedy said. In a statement Before the event.
The governor of Virginia Occidental, Patrick Morrisey, on the left, has a letter of intention to request changes in the legislation on the dye and the food dye of the State with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on Friday, March 28, 2025, in Martinsburg, W. Va. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Kennedy, however, not only seeks to make state residents healthier, but are also trying to reduce Morrisey’s waist.
He remembered having met the governor during the transition period when the Trump administration prepared for the president’s return to the White House. According to Kennedy, he did not hit his thoughts on the weight of Morrisey.
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“The first time I saw him, I said: ‘It seems that you ate governor Morrisey,” Kennedy said during his joint appearance with West Virginia governor. “I’m going to put it in a really rigorous regime, and we’ll put it in a Carnivorous Diet“
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on the left, speaks during an event that announces changes proposed to the legislation of Snap and Food Dye with the governor of West Virginia Patrick Morrisey, right, Friday, March 28, 2025, in Martinsburg, W. Va. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
In addition, Kennedy suggested that the governor weigh public every month and encouraged those at the audience who wanted Morrisey to participate to raise his hand.
The HHS chief also promised to return to West Virginia when Morrisey loses 30 pounds to make a celebration and a public weighing.
The governor of Virginia Occidental, Patrick Morrisey, speaks during an event that announces changes proposed to the legislation of Snap and Food Dye, Friday, March 28, 2025 in Martinsburg, W. Va. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Morrisey’s policies could make a great change for West Virginia, which currently has a higher obesity rate than any other state.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), from 2023, West Virginia was one of the three states that had an obesity prevalence of 40% or more.
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The prevalence of Obesity of Arkansas was 40%, that of Mississippi was 40.1%, while that of Western Virginia was 41.2%.
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From 2022, the World Obesity Foundation He classified the United States as the 19th most obese country in the world with 43.29% of adults being obese. Meanwhile, the American Samoa was classified number one with more than 75% of adults suffering from obesity.
