Understanding the scientific value of “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) can be challenging. The MAHA report — commissioned by President Donald Trump and overseen by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr — cited hundreds of sources, misinterpreting some and fabricating others.

Some of MAHA’s priorities are backed by well-established science and are worth supporting, according to a new University of Pennsylvania report published Wednesday on the Psychology of Eating and Consumer Health Lab website and obtained by Medscape Medical News for exclusive review.

“ We may not agree with everything that the MAHA commission and [Kennedy] are putting forth,” said the UPenn report’s lead author Alyssa Moran, ScD, MPH, director of policy and research strategy at the Penn Center for Food and

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