If your doctor told you to add more candy and soda to your diet, it might be a sign you need a new doctor.

What it doesn’t mean is that candy and soda are good for you.

If that same doctor said: “Don’t worry, the candy and soda are free as part of the food stamp program,” that doesn’t make it good for anyone—least of all the taxpayers who are paying for it.

Fortunately, America is finally making a change for the better, both for Americans’ health and for the health of our pocketbooks, in the form of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. We’re making healthier choices, not only because of blood pressure or diet or exercise, but because of good policy choices starting at the state level.

As Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. releases the MAHA commission report, state policymakers from Arkansas to Indiana to Utah, are taking up the MAHA mantle, emboldened by a federal government that is finally willing to back reformers, rather than putting up bureaucratic roadblocks. (RELATED: MAHA Commission Releases Landmark ‘Making Our Children Healthy Again’ Report, Blaming Processed Food And Environment)

A funny thing happened when the federal government decided to get out of the way: States began racing each other to make good choices for their citizens’ health.

On Tuesday, April 15, the governors of Arkansas, Idaho and Indiana each announced on the same day that they were submitting a waiver to the United States Department of Agriculture........

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