Elon Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to nutrition.

During a Thursday appearance on Fox Business’ “The Bottom Line,” Musk was asked about “Make America Healthy Again,” the wellness initiative from former President Donald J. Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which focuses on choosing healthier foods.

The model and dietitian, 76, said she saw many diet-related health conditions while running her private practice for 40 years.

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“The main issues were obesity, high cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes,” Musk said.

“Once they started changing their diets, their blood values looked better — and it just decreases the expense of treating these patients.”

Musk emphasized the importance of communities working together for better health.

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“We need to be able to teach people to eat better, and to have communities doing it together,” she said. 

“Because it’s hard when you have a community that loves to eat a lot of food and then you have to try to pull yourself back.”

Maye Musk and Elon Musk attend The 2022 Met Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022, in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

As a proud grandmother of 14 grandchildren, Musk said she takes measures to provide healthy foods and snacks.    

“You’ll never see chips and cookies in my home,” she said, joking that “as my grandkids say, ‘I’ve got no food.’”

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Musk also alluded to the addictive nature of unhealthy foods.

Musk, a model and dietitian, said she takes measures to provide healthy foods and snacks for her grandchildren. (Getty Images)

“If you start on them, you can’t stop,” she said. 

“And so I’d rather not start with them.”

Instead of processed foods, Musk said she sticks with healthier choices like fruits, vegetables, yogurt, milk, cereal and whole-wheat bread.

  

Mus has previously credited her “flexitarian diet” for helping her look and feel her best.

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The style of eating has been described as one that prioritizes plant-based foods while consuming meat in moderation. It is considered more “flexible” than vegetarianism.

“To me, to keep the body healthy and skin glowing, you have to eat well,” Musk previously told Fox News Digital. (Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

“I eat very well,” Musk told Fox News Digital at the time.

“To me, to keep the body healthy and skin glowing, you have to eat well. That keeps me in good health.”

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Musk has also shared her commitment to a daily active lifestyle, relying on simple workouts that can be done at home, including yoga, weights and walking her dogs.

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Stephanie Nolasco of Fox News Digital contributed reporting.

Melissa Rudy is senior health editor and a member of the lifestyle team at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to melissa.rudy@fox.com.

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Melania Trump, former first lady, is the author of the current New York Times No. 1 bestseller, “Melania.” 

The personal memoir gives readers a rare look inside her life, starting with the moment she set foot on American soil as a 26-year-old and on through the assassination attempt on her husband, former President Donald J. Trump, this past summer in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

With the eyes of the nation this week focused on the outcome of Election Day 2024, what’s clear in her book is how Melania Trump protects her own mental and psychological health no matter the events she’s navigating.

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Whether she’s enjoying personal success or dealing with political chaos, whether she’s celebrating family triumphs or weathering times of national turbulence, she figured out long ago how to stay calm, even-keeled and focused on what matters most, she reveals.

“Life’s circumstances shape you in many ways, often entirely beyond your control — your birth, parental influences and the world in which you grow up,” she writes.

“As an adult, there comes a moment when you become solely responsible for the life you lead. You must take charge, embrace that responsibility, and become the architect of your own future.”

For her, she says, that moment was coming to America and New York City as a young woman full of “youthful confidence.”

Self-care is ‘essential’

That confidence, she indicates, had roots in her upbringing.

“The value of self-care remains a guiding principle in my life.”

Her mother, Amalija Knavs, born in 1945, taught her that “self-care was essential not only to a person’s well-being, but also to being able to effectively care for others,” she writes.

Her mother “instilled this conviction in me from an early age, teaching me the importance of attending to one’s appearance before venturing into the world.”

“Melania” by Melania Trump is published by Skyhorse Publishing.  (Fox News Digital)

Trump says her mother often told her, “If I don’t take care of myself, how would I know how to care for others?”

“The value of self-care,” she says, “remains a guiding principle in my life.”

‘Own unique journey’

Melania Trump says that even as a child, she embraced a sense of “organization and orderliness” — taking a “methodical approach” to whatever projects she was working on or involved with. 

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Over time, she writes, “I learned that regardless of the circumstances or the company I found myself in, the most crucial relationship I could cultivate was the one I had with myself.” 

It’s essential, she shares, “to be grounded in one’s own identity and values. I embrace my individuality and confidently walk my own path.”

Melania Trump on the set of “Fox & Friends” recently in New York City.  (Fox News)

This strength of character carried her through a time when she felt “targeted” for her appearance, she says, and was “perceived as being ‘too’ tall and ‘too’ skinny.”

She acknowledges that it felt like bullying — though it wasn’t described that way decades ago.

Today, Trump writes, “I have come to understand that genuine happiness is not found in material possessions, but rather in the depths of self-awareness and self-acceptance.”

Other lessons in mental strength

Melania Trump shares a number of other affirmations and beliefs in her book.

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“Sometimes, in order to succeed,” she writes, “you must be willing to take risks and make tough decisions.”

She also says, “I value autonomy and believe in allowing people to live according to their wishes.”

Melania Trump is shown arriving on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

She writes that “in any relationship, whether as a mother to my son, a wife to my husband or a stepmother, I firmly believe in the principle, ‘Don’t control, communicate!’”

She also writes, “We seem to be living in an age where much of our lives is presented for public consumption on social media.”

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However, the author adds, “some moments in life are meant to be private and do not need to be shared with the world.”

“Each story shaped me into who I am today.”

She also says, “I have always believed it is critical for people to take care of themselves first … We are all entitled to maintain a gratifying and dignified existence.”

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Having already served a term as first lady, she notes that she’s aware that the role “transcends formal duties. [The] mission [of first lady] turns to fostering human connections, showing empathy and offering support for those in need.” 

Melania Trump attends a meeting of the President’s Task Force on Protecting Native American Children in the Indian Health System in the State Dining Room of the White House on July 23, 2020, in Washington, DC.  (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Her time in the White House, she says, has shaped her perspective and reinforced her “dedication to serve others.”

“Writing my memoir has been an amazing journey filled with emotional highs and lows,” Trump previously told Fox News Digital about her book. “Each story shaped me into who I am today.” 

She also told Fox News Digital that “although daunting at times, the process has been incredibly rewarding, reminding me of my strength and the beauty of sharing my truth.” 

Brooke Singman of Fox News Digital contributed reporting.