Doctor tapped by Trump for key health role reveals radical plan to end disease that kills more than cancer

Donald Trump could launch one of the largest crackdowns on unhealthy eating in American history.

Despite being the biggest fast food lover ever elected president, one doctor is tipped to play a key advisory role in the coming government claims that won’t stop him from trying to change American eating habits for the better.

Dr. Aseem Malhotra is a British cardiologist who has appeared on podcasts with Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson and has close ties with Robert F Kennedy Junior.

He was a lifelong advocate for vaccines but was ostracized by Britain’s medical establishment during the Covid-19 crisis for promoting the controversial claim that mRNA shots were killing dozens of young people.

Like RFK Jr, to whom Trump has promised a “major role” in government, Dr Malhotra believes the spiraling epidemic of chronic disease in the US can be traced in part to the overconsumption of ultra-processed foods.

He is in talks for a role as White House adviser on combating heart disease, the biggest killer in the US and caused by poor diet and obesity.

In an interview with DailyMail.com outlining what health policy could look like if he were to join team Trump, Dr Malhotra said he would push for treating processed junk food “like the new tobacco”.

He wants to ban hamburgers, pizzas and other high-calorie foods from schools and hospitals and impose a “fat tax” on the unhealthiest snacks, such as candy and ice cream.

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He said: ‘There are three simple strategies in public health, we talk about the ‘three A’s’ – you focus on availability, acceptability and affordability.

‘When it comes to affordability, you have to raise taxes, which increases the price and reduces consumption.

“This would force the food industry to develop more minimally processed foods while reducing the purchase of those foods.”

Dr. Malhotra, a former adviser to the British government, wants to introduce in the US some of the policies that worked in Britain.

A sugar tax imposed on soft drinks in Britain in 2018 caused adults to reduce their added sugar intake by about two and a half teaspoons per day.

More importantly, the tax has also led to more than half of all manufacturers reformulating their drinks to contain less sugar in order to avoid the levy.

Dr. Malhotra added, “In terms of availability, you can look at public smoking bans [an example of how to tackle junk food.]

‘Why do we allow ultra-processed food to be sold in schools and hospitals?

‘Seventy percent of the food in schools is highly processed, that’s unbelievable. What that actually does is legitimize the acceptability of these foods.

‘I’m not really talking about a ban for everyone, people should still be able to get something tasty, I’m not against that.

“But certain institutions that are supposed to promote people’s health are not allowed to sell ultra-processed food on their premises.”

Dr. Malhotra also supports more radical plans, such as placing cigarette-style warning labels on junk food warning buyers of possible links to cancer, heart disease and diabetes, and banning all advertising for ultra-processed snacks.

“These products have been linked to many diseases, including heart disease, cancer, etc., and should therefore be avoided,” he added.

“So I would have warning labels like tobacco, and I would also ban the advertising of ultra-processed foods.”

CANCELED FIGURES: Malhotra, who was ostracized from mainstream medicine during Covid, on Tucker Carlson’s show in 2023 after being fired by FOX News

Although the Trump team has declined to officially comment on Dr. Malhotra’s appointment, he is believed to be in line for a possible new heart disease czar position.

Also known as cardiovascular disease, it describes a range of conditions that affect the heart, including coronary artery disease, high blood pressure and heart failure.

Collectively, these killed 680,000 Americans last year, more than the 618,000 lives lost to cancer. Up to 90 percent of heart disease cases can be prevented through diet, exercise and other lifestyle factors, such as smoking and drinking.

But Dr. Malhotra believes the biggest priority is decoupling the American diet from ultra-processed foods (UPFs), which make up 60 percent of the average adult’s daily calories.

He drew parallels with smoking, saying, “In the 1970s, almost half of American adults smoked.

‘Imagine if you had a conversation back then and tried to imagine a world without smoking, that would have been unthinkable.

‘But it is possible.’

However, unlike tobacco, the link between cancer and other health problems and junk food is still inconclusive.

Federal health advisers have been exploring how to regulate UPFs amid mounting evidence linking them to several diseases and early death.

Scientific experts charged with helping set the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans said the data was too limited to draw firm conclusions.

The difficulty in regulating UPFs is due to the fact that there is no recognized definition for them, nor is there sufficient scientific literature in which they have been studied.

UPFs are generally thought to mean any food with more than five ingredients, but their loose definition means that some studies do not distinguish between junk foods such as soda and candy and products considered healthy such as bread, protein bars and granola.

And Dr Malhotra says 2030 is too late to take action.

“If Trump is serious about solving this pandemic [of chronic disease]this is what needs to be done 1731571912.’

Although it has taken decades to reduce smoking rates (about one in five American adults currently use tobacco), Dr. Malhotra claims it will only take one Trump term to reverse decades of rising disease rates.

Dr. Malhotra told DailyMail.com: “I think you would very soon see the impact of this on people’s health.

“So I absolutely think that if these policies are implemented, within a Donald Trump election period, there is a very good chance that you will see a meaningful decline in the rates of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure in the population. ‘

JOE ROGAN: DR. Malhotra on the Joe Rogan Experience earlier this year, which was criticized for promoting controversial theories about Covid vaccines

But it is also unclear how willingly Trump would support the radical plans advanced by Dr. Malhotra is touted given his fondness for McDonald’s and Coca Cola.

During the last campaign, the president-elect’s team released videos of Trump, 78, eating chicken nuggets and drinking soda days before the election.

He also made fries and served customers at McDonald’s in a hugely viral campaign stunt.

As well as his radical ideas on the food supply, Dr Malhotra also wants to ‘immediately pause or suspend’ the rollout of Covid vaccines in the US over concerns about their side effects – despite studies showing the shots have prevented numerous deaths from Covid.

Dr. Malhotra supported the vaccine for at-risk patients in the early days of the pandemic and appeared on TV urging people to take the shots.

But he has since linked the vaccines to a spike in deaths from heart disease in young people, a theory described as “extremely marginal.”

Dr. Malhotra points out that he has been promoting vaccines throughout his career and believes there is enough ‘uncertainty’ behind the excess deaths during Covid to question the mRNA shots.

However, Covid vaccines are another issue that Trump – who oversaw the production of Moderna and Pfizer vaccines – may be reluctant to explore.

Referring to an excerpt from Trump’s interview with Joe Rogan, Dr. Malhotra said: “He [Trump] said if the pharmaceutical industry is found to be putting profits over people, they must be held accountable and fully investigated.

“He has woken up because the actual primary job of this drug industry is to put profits before people.

“But Trump says this is not acceptable. So for me, I think he’s very open and willing to change his mind.”

Concerns about vaccine skepticism and conspiracy thinking influencing the White House have made some in the scientific community nervous about another Trump term.

As part of his ‘Make America Healthy Again’ campaign, RFK Jr has hinted at scrapping parts of the FDA, removing fluoride from water and making some childhood vaccines non-mandatory.