Will Big Food be the Next Big Tobacco?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , the former consumer rights attorney Trump has said he will nominate to lead the Department of Health and Human Services .

Kennedy 's primary target is ultra-processed foods, which are chockful of sugars, salt, and saturated fats -- though, worse, are additives, chemicals, and preservatives.

Study after study links overconsumption of UPF ’s like breakfast cereals, soft drinks, hot dogs, French fries, frozen pizza and snack chips to non-communicable diseases.

Robert Smith : Food industry underwrites much of the research on product fitness.

Smith: Informing and educating consumers is superior to onerous taxes and heavy-handed regulations.

Food industry and RFK Jr. have an opportunity to work cooperatively to create changes beneficial to the foods Americans eat, he says.