{"id":39534,"date":"2025-04-23T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/rfk-jr-calls-sugar-poison-but-says-government-probably-cant-eliminate-it\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T00:01:08","slug":"rfk-jr-calls-sugar-poison-but-says-government-probably-cant-eliminate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/rfk-jr-calls-sugar-poison-but-says-government-probably-cant-eliminate-it\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr calls sugar \u2018poison\u2019 but says government probably can\u2019t eliminate it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US health secretary says Americans should eat \u2018zero\u2019 sugar and announces plans to eliminate eight synthetic food dyes<\/p>\n<p>The US health secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\">Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a> on Tuesday called sugar \u201cpoison\u201d and recommended that Americans eat \u201czero\u201d added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/sugar\">sugar<\/a> in their food, while acknowledging that the federal government was unlikely to be able to eliminate it from products.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, however, said that better labeling was needed for foods and that new government guidelines on nutrition would recommend people avoid sugar completely.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/22\/rfk-jr-sugar-poison-food-dyes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US health secretary says Americans should eat \u2018zero\u2019 sugar and announces plans to eliminate eight synthetic food dyes The US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr on Tuesday called sugar \u201cpoison\u201d and recommended that Americans eat \u201czero\u201d added sugar in their food, while acknowledging that the federal government was unlikely to be able to eliminate &#8230; <a title=\"RFK Jr calls sugar \u2018poison\u2019 but says government probably can\u2019t eliminate it\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/rfk-jr-calls-sugar-poison-but-says-government-probably-cant-eliminate-it\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RFK Jr calls sugar \u2018poison\u2019 but says government probably can\u2019t eliminate it\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}