WASHINGTON (AP) — The kids seen by Dolores Mejia around suburban Phoenix have been growing heavier in recent years. Their parents, too, she says.
Mejia, a 75-year-old retiree, says she’s also had her own weight struggles on the scale.
That’s why Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pledge to “Make America Healthy Again” as he campaigned alongside Donald Trump caught her attention. She liked the questions Kennedy raised about the role of processed foods in America’s obesity epidemic.
“I’m a junk food person,” said Mejia, an ardent Trump supporter. “I started wondering where those extra pounds came from.”
After hearing Kennedy out, she concluded: “We cannot trust the health organizations we’ve trusted for years
→ Continue reading at The Associated Press
