And for a deeper dive now on the implications of the Maha report on our food system,

we turn now to one of the nation's foremost food policy experts.

That is Professor Emerita at New York University, Marian Nessel.

Welcome back to the News Hour.

Glad to be here.

All right.

So now that this final report is out, what did it get right?

And where does it fall short?

Well, first of all, it was a big surprise because I keep thinking I've seen this before.

It looks exactly like the report that Michelle Obama's task force reported in 2010. A lot of this is right. It's a report about intentions.

It wants to make America's kids healthier again. It talks about color additives and closing the

generally recognized the safe loophole, which are the two things that this administration

has done so far that look like they're making real progress. And it talks about a lot of other

things in very general terms. It's a report about intentions. It's not about actions.

And what you wonder is how on earth are they going to do these things?

What do they plan to do?

The word regulation is only mentioned once in the context of the generally recognizes a safe

loophole.

They talk about really important issues like stopping marketing to children, but they do

that in, we're going to investigate, we're going to explore, we're going to think about,

we're going to maybe do something about food industry marketing of junk foods to kids, which I think would

really make a big difference. And what's disappointing about it is that the things that would

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