Make America Healthy Again Movement Extends Beyond Its Architect

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โ€˜With how sick and unhealthy we are as a society, this return to the basics is needed,โ€™ an Ohio mother said.

For avid supporters, the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement itself is not new. It began long before Robert F. Kennedy Jr.โ€™s presidential campaign and subsequent confirmation as health secretary.

โ€œThe principles of the MAHA movement were once a way of life all over the country decades ago,โ€ Samantha Rayburn, a 40-year-old mother of two teenage sons, told The Epoch Times.

โ€œItโ€™s encouraging to see more people adopting those beliefs and understanding that God gave us what we need to feed our bodies and heal our bodies. With how sick and unhealthy we are as a society, this return to the basics is needed.โ€

Rayburn developed an interest in foraging for herbs and plants when she was a little girl and was inspired to make her first tincture when her oldest son caught whooping cough when he was 2.

She describes the MAHA movement as โ€œa return to the basics.โ€

โ€œItโ€™s getting back to when we knew what was in our food because we grew it and got what we didnโ€™t have from local farmers,โ€ said Rayburn, who lives in southern Ohio.

โ€œRFK Jr. and MAHA have made what many of us believe in more mainstream. People are now contacting me and wanting to learn more about herbs. I donโ€™t seem so crazy anymore.โ€

She was referring to her business, Hadassahโ€™s Herbs for Health and Healing.

When Kennedy delivered a speech in August 2024 announcing that he was suspending his campaign and backing then-former President Donald Trump, he said that Trump was giving him the opportunity to help make America healthy again.

What followed was a social media frenzy with โ€œMake America Healthy Againโ€ and โ€œMAHAโ€ hashtags. MAHA the acronym was born.

New Jersey-based Jacqueline Capriotti volunteered for Kennedyโ€™s campaign and has championed gardening for food.

She now heads the Victory Garden Alliance, which encourages people, communities, and organizations to grow their own food.

โ€œThere is a revival in growing our own food, supporting local farms, and knowing whatโ€™s in our food. Bobby and the MAHA movement have catapulted that interest,โ€ Capriotti told The Epoch Times.

โ€œWe need this. Our kids need this. Itโ€™s important they understand how food is grown and where it comes from. That will inspire healthier new generations because they will become smarter consumers.โ€

She calls what is happening with the MAHA movement a โ€œhealth revolution.โ€ She is working to educate elected officials and political candidates.

โ€œMany of us who worked on the presidential campaign didnโ€™t stop our objectives when it ended. Thatโ€™s an example of how MAHA is a movement not tied to one person,โ€ Capriotti said.

Byย Jeff Louderback

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