Food and Nutrition in the MAHA Strategy-Promise and Peril

Dariush Mozaffarian; Emily A Callahan; William H Frist

doi:10.1001/jama.2025.22358

Food and Nutrition in the MAHA Strategy-Promise and Peril

JAMA. 2026 Jan 13;335(2):119-121. doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.22358.

Authors

Dariush Mozaffarian^{1

2}, Emily A Callahan¹, William H Frist³

Affiliations

¹ Food is Medicine Institute, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Division of Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

PMID: 41231663
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2025.22358

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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses both the shortcomings and strengths of the Make Our Children Healthy Again (MAHA) Strategy and how it could represent a shift toward food and nutrition as foundations of US health.