Public Health and Diet

President Trump signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, reversing 2012 limits and allowing schools in the National School Lunch Program to serve whole and 2% milk (flavored or unflavored, organic, conventional or lactose‑free) alongside 1% and skim, permit qualifying nondairy milks with a parental note and milk‑equivalent nutrition standards, and explicitly exempts milk fat from the federal saturated‑fat averaging rule. The change is being advanced by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins as part of the MAHA/MOCHA agenda that elevates full‑fat dairy and protein over whole grains and some plant foods, drawing praise from allies and some nutrition researchers while prompting pushback from critics and several state officials.