Jell-O's gelatin is derived from the collagen found in the bones, skin, and connective tissues of animals, mainly pigs and cows.

It's still kinda icky and I don't like jello but my husband, son, and grandkids still love it. And yes, sometimes it is the only thing a person can keep down when they are sick. The man is a total idiot.

Horses just aren't a major player for slaughter in the US (volume wise), certainly not like pigs and cattle. They used to talk about sending old horses 'to the glue factory '. A nice way of saying slaughter.

Your body needs calories to heal.

For all the reasons we are mentioning.

They had to keep liquids and calories in their kids when they could not eat for one reason or another.

Dental work, flu, sugary, stomach problems.

Part of the first food after being on an NG tube after bowel obstruction surgery.

What the heck are some of their patients going to eat.

Some years ago I had a serious fall and broke three vertebra in my back.

I had to have surgery to repair all of it.

After the surgery, the pain meds made me sick to my stomach and I could not hold anything down. I could not eat.

The nurses kept telling me that if I did not eat, the bones in my back would not heal.
So it was mostly jello for me. I could keep that down and get some calories in my system.
It kept me going until I could get some food down.

Actually, that's the only time I make or buy Jello, but it's a must.

This is just nuts.

They are high in fiber and being oats have many benefits including lower starch and carbohydrates.

Rubber chickens on the other hand.

He’s just talking to hear himself prattle.

too!

Including fruits and vegetables, unless you buy only organically grown produce and other plant based foods (which are more expensive, if you can even find the stuff).

I've been alive for over 76 years now, eating stuff RFK Jr would be horrified by the whole time. If the stuff was going to kill me, it's had plenty of time to do so by now. I refuse to worry about what a man who thinks raw milk is a super food says I should or shouldn't eat, lol.

It was never the germs... but apparently, always the jello.

Plus, does he actually believe in fruits and vegetables, organic or not? His carnivore diet seems to avoid them as much as sugar and grain.

I'm his age, and we are not far behind you in age... and given all his other lifestyle choices, I doubt healthy eating was ever a priority. And apparently, he still goes to tanning salons to achieve a face that looks like an old catcher's mitt! But it's not enough to be so wildly reckless with his own health; he wants others to have the same chance to give themselves skin cancer:
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/19/nx-s1-5752430/fda-tanning-beds

That's exactly what his face looks like! That really cracked me up, and rereading it still makes me giggle. Does the man not believe in supplements? I mean the only nutritional benefit of sunshine, afaik, is vitamin D, which is easy enough to remedy. I've been taking it every day for years, after bloodwork showed I was low on it.

The article you linked was very interesting. It sounds like he thinks UV light, like raw milk and beef tallow, has some kind of magical properties. What a nutjob. Before he became HHS Secretary, I was only aware of his bizarre views on vaccines. I now see that the vaccine thing was only the tip of the crazy iceberg!

And yes, his anti-vaccine stuff is JUST the tip of the crazy iceberg!

(since it will more easily dissolve). But he must be fixating on their flavored versions -

I can vouch that fiber is your friend.

In the hospitals defense, I have only ever seen the plain variety.

They take the diets very seriously. Like a strict cardiac diet cuts out cheddar cheese. Too much salt. No grilled cheese for you!

Been there done that myself (along with family having the ordeal). Have never had any problems with the food.

Back when I was in high school, I used to do 4 hour shifts as a Candy Striper. Had my pink and white-striped jumper, crisply starched hat, and cushiony white "nurse" shoes. Could do my whole hospital round in that slot time frame. Now that hospital has quadrupled in size (I had done the "old original building" back then) and there is no way!

Fuck this guy.

Hospital food is fine. Every one I've eaten in for the last, oh my whole lifetime, has been pretty damn good for the most part.

usually low fat. I think I'd take a shaker of pepper and some cayenne next time I'm overnight.

When I have to go in for hip surgery, I think I will pack healthy snacks in my suitcase.

Jello can be made to be more healthy but it will never happen. I occasionally make my own with organic gelatin and organic grape juice instead of tons of sugar and food coloring. The grape juice is naturally sweet so no sugar needed and the natural color is beautiful.

Worry about the poison being sprayed on our fruits and vegetables instead????

Glysophate!

Put more Jell-O on the shopping list.......

And to think how much I admired that guy decades ago.

Hospitals have dietitians with college degrees in that subject. They had to take chemistry, biology,
biochemistry, physiology, and lots of classes in food science too. My mother taught human nutrition
@ nursing schools, colleges, as well as working in hospitals, the Ohio Department of Corrections … the inmates got a balanced diet …. and she wrote a textbook that was used all over too.

Btw a lot of people in hospitals are facing life ending diseases and if some chocolates, soda pop,
and cheese burgers make them have a little enjoyment so be it.

RFK Jr. is bereft of any real knowledge. Besides if you snort coke from toilet seats, shot heroin,
and spread disinformation about medicine then you shouldn’t be talking about it.

RFK Jr. is like Trump in that he is burning America to the ground.

Why can't they serve that instead?

I mix it into non fat plain yogurt for a treat.

It's temporary for surgery prep and recovery.
Because it's their only source of calories.
Can't have yogurt on clear liquid diets.

I personally hate the stuff, but had to eat lemon jello for colonscopy prep.

It's that or clear/lemon gatorade or 7UP, which is also high in sugar.

Sugar is the most basic and simplest form of calories.

Post-op clear liquids are also the diet.

E.g , something like a low sodium chicken broth from a bullion cube, and FINALLY transitioning to a broth with one fat droplet floating on top, where we could get excited knowing we were on our way to solid food soon.

Salivation over hot cloudy beige water is something to behold. I don’t remember any jell-o. Only “bullion”, “tea”, and sometimes “ice” for dessert.

I could hear the food cart rolling off of the elevator at the way far end of the hall and ever so slowly creeping up my way.

My Grandmother was a nurse in 1900 and when I got better she made me this concoction.
It might have a name, I just don't remember.
In your oatmeal bowl, you put a peeled, soft boiled egg.
Chop it up.
Then add a slice of torn, warm bread.
Give a good mix and then add a little milk.
Yummy

They serve Jello to get a few calories in you when you can't keep anything down, after surgery, etc. He isn't a doctor, or a nutritionist! He needs to be fired or at the very least STFU!!!

More below:

Oh for fucks sake. As a person who was hospitalized multiple times as a kid...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143658981#post97

clear liquid diet, no solid foods..... On my long term hospitalization I was on a feeding tube for 54 days the switch to food took time. They used to mix up a ginger ale slurry with ice to give me some thing to activate swallowing.

soft is needed to activate the entirety of the digestive system from lips to anus.

My husband has to go to the bathroom a lot. He was told jello helps to resolve that issue. So he buys the little jello cups at the store. Yeah brainworm guy.

topped with raccoon penises

The only thing he could get down was ginger ale and popsicle's.

Where did RFK Jr go to medical school?

RW 6 jerks is right up with them..................

winning the November elections this year hopefully will be the beginning to end this total nightmare.

The above mentioned people are terrorists and enjoy terrorizing the American people.

That hospitals must include road kill raccoon penises in every meal.

The worm is smarter.

When the federal gov't withheld highway funds from states that didn't implement a 55 mph speed limit on highways, conservatives characterized it as government opression. Any federal gov't monetery incentives used to implement (i.e., 'force') a government policy has been labeled 'overreach'.

Now, suddenly, we're blackmailing hospitals into banning Cheerios and Jello by threatening Medicare and Medicaid money?

The word 'hypocrisy' doesn't begin to cover this.

Also, things like Jello, Cheerios, saltine crackers and such are mild foods that provide a soft touch to the system when recovering from surgery and general anesthesia. You don't eat steak and broccoli as your first meal after waking up. That'll put you into gastric violence.

Further, small children undergoing hospitalization need to consume food - any food - so they don't fall into malnutrition. You can't feed them liver and onions.

We got President Jesus who can heal people with his radioactive hands!

Ah so they just say the eugenics aloud now

— Alex Hanna (@alexhanna.bsky.social) 2026-04-21T21:14:35.652Z

He should tell them to stop serving overcooked vegetables.

His cranium is full of it.

So stupid.

or suffering from conditions that impair their ability chew , swallow, or comfortably eat solid food.

Because sometimes that's the only thing we could get down our elderly patientents. Or really sick ones whe were on a liquid diet (not dlear).Or milkshakes. Or, God forbid, ICE CREAM for kiddies or adults? Get rid of this idiot by whatever means.

Help to get corn syrup in any form of ingredients out of "sugar free" food.
You can't recommend that though because that would piss off the corn growers, and the pharmaceutical industry which pays bribe money to politicians.

Truth in labeling is tantamount to people's health.

In the Trump/Republican's administration..........

If for every position in their entire CABAL they had a candidate list of descending qualifications of 1000 people made for each job.............they would/have picked # 1000 at the bottom of the list.......SERIOUSLY

AND, it isn't by accident..........

In Hill Billy jargon, all are "suck egg dogs"........

In high school (class of '74), I was a volunteer Candy Striper at the local hospital. A patient with a broken leg gave me a note and some money to buy him a pack of cigarettes from the gift shop in the lobby. I brought the smokes to him and watched him puff-puff away in front of his doctors. Hell, our high school had a special smoking section for students who weren't old enough to buy cigarettes.

...in the observation section of the Emergency Department - it was an 8 bed unit where patients who needed to be watched but did not warrant a full admission could be for a 2-3 day stay.

I walked into on of the rooms one day and found an elderly gentleman smoking while getting oxygen via nasal cannula. "You need to put that out RIGHT NOW," I said, rather loudly.

I'm surprised he didn't blow the place up.

THEY. WANT. YOU. TO. DIE.
and they want you to suffer while dying.

But in the OP's case, brainworm host is looking for a solution to an almost non-existent problem by targeting HOSPITALS, that are already set up for providing specific dietary needs based on a patient's health/condition. But in reality, this is being done to continue to GUT Medicaid by withholding funds.

Lime Jell-o is fantastic made with Tequilla. Coconut Jello with rum...

Jell-o is the gateway drug to blue raspberry and vodka shots.

just wait until he comes after the chocolate pudding /w Bailys Irish cream. It will never end.

because "Jell-o" is actually a name brand.

Like everything this mid-administration does.

the school to promote better nutrition and sugar avoidance??

She was horrible...but at the time and still in red areas, promoting healthy foods is radical left ideology. But now it comes from their team so who knows....

Turns out the GOP "projects" again.

... with what in later years was diagnosed as atypical migraine (i.e., intractable vomiting), finally being able to have a little jello -- the only thing that stayed down after a couple days on an IV -- was a fantastic thing.

So what if it was "sugary"? So was the damn glucose in the IV.

Bobbie is mentally deranged.

Restricted diet for about 2 days. Of course, JFK Jr. has to send in his truckload of bullshit. I haven't bought Jello in 20 years. What's next with that crazy mother fucker?

I posted "What's next? Banning Intravenous glucose/dextrose solutions??" then saw LeftinTx beat me to it.

Goddess knows what he used it for.

There's always room for Jello!

He is clearly brain-damaged, like the hero he kneels before.