{"id":9397,"date":"2025-12-29T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/29\/chronic-disease-maha-issues-to-watch-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:02:19","slug":"chronic-disease-maha-issues-to-watch-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/29\/chronic-disease-maha-issues-to-watch-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2026, Kennedy\u2019s MAHA vision gets put to the test. Here are 3 issues to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    In 2026, Kennedy\u2019s MAHA vision gets put to the test. Here are 3 issues to watch<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In many ways, it\u2019s been a banner year for chronic disease. America\u2019s enduring ailments became a central theme of the Trump administration, with health secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/18\/rfk-jr-profile-hhs-secretary-delivers-on-trump-maha-priorities\/\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wielding his influence<\/a> over the president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump created a commission focused on childhood chronic illnesses, which issued two reports on the matter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/03\/26\/maha-movement-state-laws-rfk-jr-make-america-healthy-again\/\">Statehouses across the country passed<\/a> Make America Healthy Again-inspired legislation. Private companies and public bodies began emphasizing their commitments to combatting disease. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/09\/snap-soda-ban-maha-movement-health-nutrition-runs-into-political-headwinds\/\">Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Programs cut soda<\/a> from their menus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/29\/chronic-disease-maha-issues-to-watch-2026\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Elizabeth Cooney, Isabella Cueto, and Sarah Todd<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/29\/chronic-disease-maha-issues-to-watch-2026\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2026, Kennedy\u2019s MAHA vision gets put to the test. Here are 3 issues to watch In many ways, it\u2019s been a banner year for chronic disease. America\u2019s enduring ailments became a central theme of the Trump administration, with health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wielding his influence over the president. Trump created a commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4494,2362,1428,2333,2147,2332,2282,2176,2144,2180,2149],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-to-watch","category-chronic-disease","category-health","category-health-disparities","category-hhs","category-nutrition","category-obesity","category-pharma","category-politics","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}