Good morning, folks! As you all ease into this week of celebration, we’ll be doing the same with the Wake Up Right newsletter. Below is a schedule of what you can expect for the next week:

• ✅ Today: Business as usual

• ✅ Tomorrow: Short message

• 🔻 Wednesday: No newsletter

• 🔻 Thursday: No newsletter

• 🔻 Friday: No newsletter

• 📊 Just 34% approve of Joe Biden, 66% disapprove

• 📈 U.S. healthcare costs rose 7.5% in 2024

• 🎉 Party City is closing all stores, ending 40 years in business

• 🎅 'Twas the Night Before Christmas was written on this day in 1823

^{Sources: Marquette, WSJ, CNN, History}

FDA tightens rules around ‘healthy’ label

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is rewriting what it defines as "healthy" — requiring stricter nutritional standards for products to earn the label.

The details: The FDA aims to "empower consumers" as they search for healthy options in the grocery store aisles and aims to "reduce the burden of diet-related chronic diseases.”

Back up: This is the first major update issued by the agency in 30 years.

The changes: The new labeling system requires that foods must limit sodium, saturated fat, and added sugars in order to claim to be "healthy" on packaging.

• For example, a half cup of fruit or veggies must contain no more than 2% of the daily sugar allowance. Additionally, sodium can’t exceed 10% and 5% for saturated fats.

Healthy without question: Whole foods with no additives automatically qualify for the “healthy” label.

Oils: For oils to claim to be healthy, they must be certified as 100% pure, and no more than 20% of their fat can be saturated.

• Olive and avocado oil [popular with many in the anti-seed oil movement] contain less than 20% saturated fat and would be considered healthy.

• However, popular alternatives like butter and beef tallow contain north of 50% saturated fat.

Zoom out: According to the CDC, 73.6% of adults in the U.S. are overweight or obese.

Artificial coloring: According to media reports, the FDA may also move to ban artificial red food dye, which is already heavily restricted in Europe for health concerns such as links to hyperactivity in children and cancer in lab animals.

Big picture: Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed a merger of the anti-establishment health-conscious movement and the political right, highlighted by the integration of lifelong Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into the mainstream of the Republican party. RFK Jr. campaigned for President-elect Donald Trump with the 'Make America Healthy Again' message. While this move by the FDA is a small step in the right direction, it’s just a tiny step in the marathon of changes Kennedy and Trump are expected to bring over the next four years.

[Source: NY Times]

🆘 An Islamic terrorist drove his car through a Christmas market in Germany on Friday, killing five people and injuring dozens more. The killer, Saudi Arabian national Taleb Al Abdulmohsen, has been arrested. Read more.

📝 Congress approved a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown, and Joe Biden signed the measure into law Saturday morning. Read more.

🚀 A guided U.S. missile cruiser shot at a U.S. fighter jet in what appears to be friendly fire, injuring a crew member and sparking an investigation. Read more.

🚇️ An illegal alien from Guatemala was arrested for setting a sleeping woman on fire and watching as she burned to death on a NYC subway car. Read more.

🌒 A new study suggests that the moon may be more than 100 million years older than many scientists previously thought. Read more.

💸 The Biden regime canceled another $4.28 billion in student loan debt, bringing the total to $180 billion. Read more.

🛑 President-elect Donald Trump filed an amicus brief to stop the Biden regime’s "fire sales" of border wall materials to private parties. Read more.

💩 U.S. authorities arrested dozens of members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua during recent operations in Colorado and New York City. Read more.

🏗️ President-elect Donald Trump threatened to retake the Panama Canal if Panama continued to “rip off” the United States with “exorbitant” transit fees. Read more.

🎭️ Actress Blake Lively accused her ‘It Ends With Us’ director and co-star Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment and a subsequent effort to “destroy” her reputation. Read more.

📺️ 96% of evening news coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC skewed negatively against Donald Trump's cabinet picks, including Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel. Read more.

🎥 A Saudi Arabian man plowed his car through a Christmas market in Germany. Watch. [Warning: disturbing]

🎥 The crowd at SNL cheers for cowardly murderer Luigi Mangione. Watch. SMH…

🎥 Google released its 2024 Year in Search highlight. Watch.

🎥 Kamala mega-fundraiser calls it quits, says the Democrat party has become a cult. Watch.

🎥 Senator Fetterman says Trump has a "political talent" who is "undeniable." Watch.

🎥 San Francisco's new "weight czar" explains how "diet culture" is oppressive and anti-feminist. Watch. LOL, SF residents, you’re tax dollars are paying this clown.

🎥 Leftist Cent Uygur speaks to Charlie Kirk and congratulates Republicans for revolting against our establishment. Watch.

🎥 Here's the one SNL segment I enjoy every year. Christmas joke swap. Watch.

🎥 Rapper Tom MacDonald remixes Let it Snow. Watch.

🎥 Go long: For a second time, Megyn Kelly sat down with her former rival, Steve Bannon, to discuss all things Trump. Watch. I will be watching this on my train to work today.

If you’re looking for political content over the Christmas/Hanukkah break… 👇️ 

🎥 Go longer: There were dozens of great speeches at AmFest over the weekend. RSBN has them all cataloged. A few I’m going to be checking out are Steve Bannon, Brett Cooper, Matt Gaetz, and of course… Donald Trump. Check them out.

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