You don’t have to be up to the 100 pushup, 50 pullup “Bobby Kennedy Fitness Challenge” this Christmas to follow U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary’s holiday health recommendation.

When asked by The Daily Signal how Americans can stay healthy during the holiday season, Makary gave a simple answer: drink more water.

“I’ve often had patients ask me, like, ‘What’s one thing I can do to eat healthier, to live healthier, that’s easy, something easy to do,’” he said. “And I often tell them, ‘Drink good water, drink water instead of sugary drinks or drinks with things that you don’t even know what’s in them.’”

Makary said he’s excited about changes to the health conversation sparked by the MAHA movement.

“This is the exciting thing about Secretary [Robert F.] Kennedy and this new MAHA agenda, as people are talking about health now in a conversation that we’ve never had before about school lunches, not just putting 6-year-olds on Ozempic,” he said. “We’ve initiated now through the U.S. [Department of Agriculture] waivers for the SNAP program so that the SNAP taxpayer dollars don’t have to go to junk food. We are working on a definition for ultra-processed foods.”

“We’re rewriting the food pyramid,” he continued. “We are doing so much in the area of food that I think you’re really gonna see now a revolution in medicine to talk not just about drugs and operations, but to talk about food and the microbiome and a healthy gut and body inflammation and stress.”

A big agenda item for Makary is being “proactive on health.”

“We’ve never had these conversations at a federal level before on the importance of natural light exposure for children and the importance of circadian rhythms and one’s sleep quality and things like estrogen for postmenopausal women,” he said.

Makary says he’s lucky to eat his wife’s home cooking.

“I like to eat healthy,” he said. “I like to eat whole foods, things that come from good soil, foods that come from animals that are raised in a very healthy and humane way.”

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