Secretary Kennedy's Statement on Nutrition in Medical Schools, Aug. 25, 2025
August 25, 2025 · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · 0:03:18
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What happened
HHS published Secretary Kennedy’s statement on nutrition in medical schools on August 25, 2025. In the statement carried in HHS’s description, Kennedy says: ‘I’m leading a team at HHS, along with Ed. Sec. McMahon, targeting the woeful lack of nutrition education in medicine. We can reverse the chronic disease epidemic simply by changing our diets and lifestyles, but to do that, we need nutrition to be a basic part of every doctor’s training.’
Why it matters
This August 2025 statement is the originating commitment behind the HHS–Education nutrition-in-medical-training push that Kennedy and McMahon presented in expanded form on March 9, 2026.
Scoreboard watch
The commitment stated here — nutrition as a basic part of every doctor’s training — is recorded as stated; the March 9, 2026 Kennedy–McMahon page carries the later quantified version (53 schools, 40 hours) already flagged for the scoreboard.
Sources: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ‘Secretary Kennedy’s Statement on Nutrition in Medical Schools’ (HHS upload, embedded above).
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