How delicious to see the American food and drink industry meet its match, in the unlikely duo of Donald Trump and his health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.

This is an industry that has influenced diets the world over. If you’ve taken the kids to a hotel this summer, you may even now be wrestling to limit their intake of those yummy sweet globules that pass for breakfast cereal.

Ever since American fast food conquered the world, global rates of chronic disease have been rising. For decades, fat, sugar and additives have been linked to obesity and related conditions. Big Food has used every trick in the book to keep it that way. Even Michael Bloomberg, when mayor of New York, couldn’t get the drinks industry to reduce its supersized sodas. It campaigned, sued and won. I’d never have imagined that the founding fathers wanted citizens to have a constitutional right to guzzle high fructose corn syrup. But it seems they did.