Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made an unfounded claim on Wednesday that the keto diet can cure schizophrenia. Health experts were quick to call the comment a vast overstatement regarding the relationship between the diet and the disorder. Kennedy made the comments while he was visiting Tennessee as part of a national tour to encourage Americans to "eat real food," according to The New York Times. During his visit to the Tennessee State Capitol, Kennedy said "we now know that the thing things that you eat are driving mental illness in this country," and claimed that a Harvard doctor had "cured schizophrenia using keto diets." Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and former president of the American Psychiatric Association, told The NYT that it is "simply misleading" to claim that schizophrenia symptoms can even be improved by the keto diet, never mind cured.