{"id":26133,"date":"2025-04-16T22:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26133"},"modified":"2025-04-16T22:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:25:05","slug":"leading-nutrition-scientist-departs-n-i-h-citing-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26133","title":{"rendered":"Leading Nutrition Scientist Departs N.I.H., Citing Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kevin Hall said his work on ultraprocessed foods has been \u201chobbled\u201d under the Trump administration. Scientists have been raising such concerns for months.<\/p>\n

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For the past two decades, Kevin Hall, a nutrition and metabolism scientist at the National Institutes of Health, has devoted his career to studying how people\u2019s diets affect their health. He has led some of the world\u2019s most important research on ultraprocessed foods<\/a>, including one study<\/a> that demonstrated, for the first time, that they caused people to overeat. This linked ultraprocessed foods to chronic conditions like Type 2 diabetes and obesity.<\/p>\n

Dr. Hall had planned to keep doing this work for many years \u2014 and hoped it might accelerate under the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has said that fixing the nation\u2019s food supply<\/a> is a priority. But now, at 54, he is retiring early<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The New York Times, Dr. Hall said his decision was driven in part by several instances in which federal officials censored his work. In one, he said he was barred from speaking freely with reporters about a study that might have been seen as contradicting Mr. Kennedy\u2019s stance on the addictive nature of ultraprocessed foods, which include products like chicken nuggets, hot dogs, packaged cookies and chips.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe experienced what amounts to censorship and controlling of the reporting of our science,\u201d Dr. Hall said, adding that he was worried that if he stayed, officials might also interfere with the design and execution of his studies. \u201cThat would make me hate my job every day,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Outside health experts said that Dr. Hall\u2019s retirement is a setback for diet and chronic disease research.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a sad day when one of the most prominent nutrition researchers at N.I.H. feels forced to leave a job that he loves in an area that he\u2019s having major public impact,\u201d said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, the director of the Food Is Medicine Institute at Tufts University.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Hall said his work on ultraprocessed foods has been \u201chobbled\u201d under the Trump administration. Scientists have been raising such concerns for months.For the past two decades, Kevin Hall, a nutrition and metabolism scientist at the National Institutes of Health, has devoted his career to studying how people\u2019s diets affect their health. He has led some of the world\u2019s most important research on ultraprocessed foods, including one study that demonstrated, for the first time, that they caused people to overeat. This linked ultraprocessed foods to chronic conditions like Type 2 diabetes and obesity.Dr. Hall had planned to keep doing this work for many years \u2014 and hoped it might accelerate under the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has said that fixing the nation\u2019s food supply is a priority. But now, at 54, he is retiring early.In an interview with The New York Times, Dr. Hall said his decision was driven in part by several instances in which federal officials censored his work. In one, he said he was barred from speaking freely with reporters about a study that might have been seen as contradicting Mr. Kennedy\u2019s stance on the addictive nature of ultraprocessed foods, which include products like chicken nuggets, hot dogs, packaged cookies and chips.\u201cWe experienced what amounts to censorship and controlling of the reporting of our science,\u201d Dr. Hall said, adding that he was worried that if he stayed, officials might also interfere with the design and execution of his studies. \u201cThat would make me hate my job every day,\u201d he added.Outside health experts said that Dr. Hall\u2019s retirement is a setback for diet and chronic disease research.\u201cIt\u2019s a sad day when one of the most prominent nutrition researchers at N.I.H. feels forced to leave a job that he loves in an area that he\u2019s having major public impact,\u201d said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, the director of the Food Is Medicine Institute at Tufts University.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26135,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26136,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26133\/revisions\/26136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}