EAT YOUR VITAMINS: Vitamin B1, or thiamin, helps your body turn the food you eat into useable energy. In some, thiamin deficiency is marked by memory loss, impaired cognition, and even heart failure. Americans struggling from alcohol dependence or diabetes are more likely to be deficient in thiamin.
Real Food is full of thiamin. Top sources include pork chops, trout, black beans, tuna, orange juice, and yogurt.
Trust doesn’t just magically appear — it needs to be built, maintained, and protected with transparency from top to bottom.
Read the interview with HHS National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Thomas Keane on TEFCA, data security, and the office's actions to empower patients.
Huge MAHA win! We are raising the bar on food safety. Just because a chemical is widely used doesn’t mean it’s safe.
@fda will now continuously review chemicals in our food — and act faster when risks appear.
@SecKennedy outlines America’s fertility crisis: “We now have a fertility rate officially of 1.57, and that’s down from 1920…it was at 3.26.”
“It’s way below the replacement rate which is 2.1.”
“It is actually approaching the rates they have in China and Japan.”
@SecKennedy : “@POTUS has asked me to determine the cause of dropping fertility rates in this country. So we have National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the other agencies doing the first really comprehensive science on that.”
Last week, @seckennedy announced efforts to curb psychiatric overprescribing, and laid out new HHS actions to promote appropriate psychiatric prescribing and drive deprescribing when clinically indicated.
Last week in Toledo, Ohio, @seckennedy and @acf_gov Assistant Secretary Adams visited Head Start Program, the Clever Bee Academy, where they spent time with students and participated in a roundtable discussion with staff and parents on healthy eating and physical activity.
Sec. Kennedy and Assistant Secretary Adams also announced that ACF is awarding Clever Bee Academy a $30,000 supplemental nutrition grant to make sure Head Start is also a healthy start!
The Trump administration is advancing MAHA and MAGA priorities through Moms.gov, with a focus on supporting family formation, providing clear nutritional guidance, and improving affordability.
Bethany Kozma is HHS Director of Global Affairs and mother of three. This Mother’s Day, Director Kozma reminds the world the crucial role that mothers play in the health of society.
That is why the Geneva Consensus Declaration, joining together 41 nations, deserves celebration this Mother’s Day — promoting the vitality of motherhood, the sanctity of life, women’s health, strengthening the family unit, and the importance of national sovereignty.
“When mothers flourish, the world flourishes.” —Director Kozma
HHS Mother’s Day Highlight: At the inaugural HHS National Conference on Women's Health, ARPA-H Director Dr. Alicia Jackson shared how her sister’s heart attack became a driving force behind her leadership at @ARPAhealth — and her mission to help others facing similar challenges.
