Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday championed the new food pyramid unveiled by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but after spotting its central financial hurdle for working-class Americans, had to admit that Michelle Obama was “right.”
Kennedy announced earlier in the day alongside Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins that the inverted new food pyramid prioritizes protein such as red meat, fish and poultry, as well as fruit, vegetables and healthy fats, over whole grains such as bread and cereal.
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The “Ingraham Angle” host called it “a major MAHA win,” but quickly identified a problem.
Ingraham was discussing the guidelines on her show with Rollins and Kennedy, who is leading the “Make America Healthy Again” effort under President Donald Trump, when her remark that we should simply “encourage” children to eat healthily prompted a confession.
Rollins said, “A big pushback, that’s exactly right Laura, is people will say, ‘Oh, here comes the Trump administration, nanny state, it’s gonna be too expensive’ and ‘What happened to affordability?’ To eat healthy, to have fish or chicken or pork or beef with a side of vegetables, whole grain piece of bread, a glass of whole milk, is right around $3 to $4.”
She continued, “That’s less than any fast food meal that you could get. But what we have to do better at, and what we’re working on also, is those underserved communities that don’t have access to Whole Foods or [Texas-based supermarket chain] H-E-B—”
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That’s when Ingraham interrupted, “Michelle Obama used to call them ‘food deserts.’”
The former first lady had famously made the lack of healthy and affordable food for children a core issue of her “Let’s Move!” campaign while her husband Barack Obama was in office, only for Ingraham to urge Republicans in 2010 to be “vociferously opposed” to it.
“I used to kind of poke fun of her for that,” Ingraham said Wednesday. “Maybe is she right?”