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The greatest heavyweight champ in history is on the MAHA train. He looks slim now and says he was once 345 pounds.
Hopefully he can get through to some younger Americans who might know him for his legacy and older Americans who remember him from their youth.
Between the usual ad blitz for beer, fast food and soda, one Super Bowl spot this Sunday will carry a stark warning about the food Americans eat.
“We’re the most powerful country in the world, and we have the most obese, fudgy people,” the boxer Mike Tyson says. He also says he was once “fat and nasty” and ate “a quart of ice cream every hour.” Mr. Tyson says in the ad that his sister died at 25 “of obesity,” after having a heart attack. The words “Processed food kills” and “Eat real food” flash as Mr. Tyson and his son bite into apples.
The ad was paid for by MAHA Center, a new advocacy group aligned with the Make America Healthy Again movement. The group is led by Tony Lyons, a close ally of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a key figure in the MAHA movement who also leads its political fund-raising arm. He said that the center raised money for the Super Bowl ad by reaching out to “b
Hopefully he can get through to some younger Americans who might know him for his legacy and older Americans who remember him from their youth.
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Between the usual ad blitz for beer, fast food and soda, one Super Bowl spot this Sunday will carry a stark warning about the food Americans eat.
“We’re the most powerful country in the world, and we have the most obese, fudgy people,” the boxer Mike Tyson says. He also says he was once “fat and nasty” and ate “a quart of ice cream every hour.” Mr. Tyson says in the ad that his sister died at 25 “of obesity,” after having a heart attack. The words “Processed food kills” and “Eat real food” flash as Mr. Tyson and his son bite into apples.
The ad was paid for by MAHA Center, a new advocacy group aligned with the Make America Healthy Again movement. The group is led by Tony Lyons, a close ally of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a key figure in the MAHA movement who also leads its political fund-raising arm. He said that the center raised money for the Super Bowl ad by reaching out to “b
