Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Nov. 6 that new dietary guidelines have been delayed, but will be released in December.
Kennedy made the remarks at a Washington press conference after the administration announced a deal with pharmaceutical companies to cut prices for weight loss drugs.
He said in May that the guidelines would likely be out before August, but then pushed the timeline to later in the year, at one point saying they’d be ready at the end of September.
The ongoing government shutdown, which started on Oct. 1 and is the longest in U.S. history, has delayed work on the guidelines, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services told The Epoch Times in an email….