{"id":348213,"date":"2026-02-12T15:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/348213\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:38:25","slug":"mike-tyson-healthy-eating-advocate-for-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/348213\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson, healthy eating advocate for Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AFP048489_00.pre.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t      Boxing legend Mike Tyson, who tasted both glory and prison in a roller-coaster life and career, spoke out Wednesday about his new role as a healthy-eating ambassador for the Trump administration.<br \/>  The former heavyweight champ has lent his face to an ad campaign with the slogan Eat Real Food, as opposed to ultra-processed products that are popular in America. An ad generated by the campaign aired Sunday during the Super Bowl.<br \/>  This is the biggest fight of my life, Tyson said Wednesday at an event with US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<br \/>  Tyson is a poster child for public rehabilitation from disgrace, as his boxing prowess was marred by a rape conviction and prison stint, as well as a fight in which he bit off part of his opponent&#8217;s ear.<br \/>  In the new black and white commercial, Tyson, 59, recalls that his sister Denise suffered from obesity and died of a heart attack at age 25.<br \/>  He recounts a tough childhood battling his own weight issues, eating junk food all the time and weighing as much as 345 pounds (156 kilograms).<br \/>  I had so much self-hate, Tyson says in the ad. I just wanted to kill myself.<br \/>  Where I come from is Brownsville, Brooklyn. It&#8217;s the most violent, poverty-struck neighborhood in the city of New York. And ultra-processed food was just the norm, Tyson said at the event with Kennedy, whose slogan is Make America Healthy Again.<br \/>  Americans consume a diet heavy in calories that come from ultra-processed foods and are among the world&#8217;s worst offenders in this category, according to government figures.<br \/>  Eating food rich in sugar, fat, salt and preservatives is associated with a higher risk of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular problems.<br \/>  Among a blizzard of changes to US health policy including de-emphasizing vaccines, Kennedy last month flipped the American food pyramid upside down to encourage people to eat meat and whole-milk dairy products.<br \/>  Fiber-rich whole grains like oats are now at the bottom of the chart.<br \/>  Critics have raised concerns that this change might be a result of lobbying from the agriculture sector.<br \/>  Tyson became the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion in the 1980s, terrifying his opponents with his fury in the ring and a phenomenal punching power.<br \/>  But he spent three years in jail beginning in 1992 after being found guilty of raping model Desiree Washington, who was 18 at the time.<br \/>  In a notorious 1996 matchup, Tyson bit off a piece of his opponent Evander Holyfield&#8217;s ear.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing legend Mike Tyson, who tasted both glory and prison in a roller-coaster life and career, spoke out Wedn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6004,158940,156877,158948,158943,9737,13931,66322,156614,96840,1606,30863,66790,80895,158945,400,83094,9924,88156,2700,158944,5623,158949,3326,158941,31058,80723,158947,16764,17552,8773,23809,130770,158939,27056,158946,158942,23650,17554,45801],"class_list":{"0":"post-348213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-jiji","10":"tag-kenko","11":"tag-topics","12":"tag-topix","13":"tag-9737","14":"tag-13931","15":"tag-66322","16":"tag-156614","17":"tag-96840","18":"tag-1606","19":"tag-30863","20":"tag-66790","21":"tag-80895","22":"tag-158945","23":"tag-400","24":"tag-83094","25":"tag-9924","26":"tag-88156","27":"tag-2700","28":"tag-158944","29":"tag-5623","30":"tag-158949","31":"tag-3326","32":"tag-158941","33":"tag-31058","34":"tag-80723","35":"tag-158947","36":"tag-16764","37":"tag-17552","38":"tag-8773","39":"tag-23809","40":"tag-130770","41":"tag-158939","42":"tag-27056","43":"tag-158946","44":"tag-158942","45":"tag-23650","46":"tag-17554","47":"tag-45801"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@life\/116058410571735102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}