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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Wellness Unmasked: Exposing Flaws in HHS Childhood Health Strategy

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics, News Commentary

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Wellness Unmasked, Dr. Nicole Saphier examines the leaked HHS strategy to combat rising childhood obesity, diabetes, and mental health challenges. She argues the plan lacks structure and overlooks the root causes of chronic illness in children—such as poor nutrition, sedentary lifestyles, and over-reliance on medical interventions.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Wellness Unmas. I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire and I am fresh back from Scotland where I was vacationing with my family.

0:08.0

If you've never been to Scotland, this was our first time. Let me tell you it was lovely.

0:14.0

You have to kind of like being outdoors. If you're not an outdoors person, maybe it's not for you.

0:19.0

But we had an amazing time, about seven-hour flight home,

0:23.8

which gave me ample time to read through the eight pages of the elite Make Our Children

0:31.5

Healthy Again Strategy plan that came out of the HHS. So I thought that maybe we'd sit down and go through it.

0:40.4

For decades, we have watched rising rates of childhood obesity, diabetes, mental health

0:46.0

struggles, and preventable chronic illness just in general.

0:49.9

And behind the politics, behind the headlines, and behind the spin, there is really a generation

0:56.1

of kids who are suffering, and they deserve better. I talked about this five years ago in my first

1:02.3

book, Make America Healthy Again. Adults are sick, but our kids are even sicker, and they're

1:07.5

starting out getting sick younger and younger. So by the time they're our

1:11.5

age, they're going to be worse off than we are. So that's why I thought it was really important

1:16.1

to break down this big strategy that is coming out of the RFK Jr. HHS. Remember, there was an

1:26.4

executive order by President Trump earlier this year to the HHS. Remember, there was an executive order by President Trump earlier this year to the

1:30.8

HHS secretary, RFK Jr., saying, I want to see what your plan is. What are we going to do

1:36.3

to make our kids healthy again? Politico leaked this strategy. It was due out. The strategy

1:42.3

plan was due August 15th. They missed that deadline. Nothing

1:46.8

came out. This is not the final version. This is just what was leaked. I got to be honest, though,

1:54.7

if you were looking for some real zingers, you're going to be thoroughly disappointed. Now, listen, it's very easy

2:02.9

to criticize from the outside looking in, undoubtedly. I am certain a lot of time and effort

2:09.2

went into writing this. There are some areas where I'm pretty sure chat GPT or GROC or something similar may have contributed significantly.

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