A Fox News panel has schooled “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg after she accused Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., of “fat shaming.”
Kennedy has spoken several times about reforming America’s approach to food, especially when it comes down to it controversial ingredients. He recently encouraged Americans to embrace a healthier lifestyle and healthier food choices instead of turning to new weight-loss drugs.
“Most people with diabetes or prediabetics can be cured with good food,” he said publicly recently. “If they choose to be cured by Ozempic, the government will pay $1,500 a month for the rest of their lives and with a fraction of that we can feed everyone in the country organic food and three meals a day.”
Goudberg did that not responding well to his rhetoric, commenting on “The View,” “This isn’t just about food. This is – sometimes people are born genetically bigger.”
Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of The View, dismissed RFK Jr.’s rhetoric. about healthy policy and tackling obesity.
“You’re putting people to shame,” she told Kennedy. “That’s what you’re trying to do – maybe you don’t know what you’re doing. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt. I’m going to say you don’t know, and you don’t realize what you do to people when you say things like that, because It doesn’t work for everyone.”
The host of a talk show said she weighed almost 300 pounds less than two years ago and argued that without the weight-loss drugs “this wouldn’t have happened,” which her current physique shows.
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Panelists on Fox News’ ‘outnumbered’ chuckled and dismissed Goldberg’s rhetoric.
Dr. Nicole Saphier argued that, as a radiologist, “I see the inside and the outside of everyone, and I can tell you that we – the vast majority of us – are actually created equal when it comes to our insides.”
“Whoopi Goldberg is right when she said that there are some genetic and familial predispositions to overweight people, specifically metabolic syndrome and some others, but RFK Jr. is also right, and I apologize, but the truth hurts. A lot it has to do with lifestyle factors.”
She further argued that the consumption of cheap, highly processed food leads to obesity in poorer areas.
“Unfortunately, you see that, especially in low-income areas, there just isn’t access to healthy food, it’s certainly not affordable,” Saphier continued. “They don’t go to the local market to buy organic food, in fact, they get the highly processed, cheap stuff.”
“That’s unfortunately what gets us into this dangerous cycle of unhealthy eating. It’s not necessarily because they’re gluttonous, or because they want to manage their own health, their body or their lifestyle, but that’s what they have access to and what they can afford,” she said.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife Cheryl Hines arrive before President-elect Donald Trump speaks at an America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Fox News host Harris Faulkner read a quote from Kennedy that weight-loss drugs are an option but should not be the first choice: “The first line response should be lifestyle. It should be eating right, making sure you don’t. ” not become obese and that those (weight loss) medications have a place.”
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Ian Prior, senior counsel at America First Legal, responded: “I don’t remember Whoopi Goldberg being angry about Michelle Obama’s school lunch plan in 2010. There was no fat shaming there.”
“It’s always the person delivering the message” that the left focuses on, not “the message” itself, he said.
“How stupid do you have to be not to understand that being overweight is unhealthy?” asked Fox News host Julie Banderas, citing the rates of several obesity-related diseases and health complications.
“This is not fat shaming, this is wanting a healthy America. Right now we have an obese America. The number of overweight people in this country is astronomical. I too have lost weight. I remember what it felt like to be overweight, it was a horrible feeling, so I can speak for those who have struggled with weight loss and yo-yo dieting my entire life, it sucks,” she continued.
“I mean, it doesn’t feel good, but you feel so much healthier. Get out there and exercise! That’s what parents need to teach their kids. Kids are on their iPads, they’re on their iPhones. We’re increasing future fat Kids! Honest said, and I’m not ashamed of it, I just see so many overweight kids, and I think that’s so unhealthy,” Banderas added.
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Saphier responded, “It’s very unfortunate what they’re doing, like on ‘The View’ and others. All they’re doing is praising these drugs. While they have a place for some people, there are also some serious consequences associated with them.” And last month it emerged that in some breast cancer patients their chemotherapy is not as effective when they use the drugs. We just don’t know, so we have to proceed with caution.”
