(New York Times) – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to return the nation to a time when he believes Americans were healthier. Not so fast, many researchers say.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, often says that when his uncle was president in the early 1960s, Americans were much healthier than they are now. People were thinner and had lower rates of chronic disease, he recalls. Fewer children had autism, allergies or autoimmune diseases.

On Thursday, the Trump administration released a report on children’s health premised on the idea that we’ve fallen far since this golden era.

But were Americans really healthier back then? (Read More)