USA Today reports:
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blames ultra-processed foods, environmental chemicals, lack of physical activity, chronic stress and “overmedicalization” for driving chronic diseases in U.S. children, according to his Make America Healthy Again commission report published May 22.
The 69-page report, titled “Making Our Children Healthy Again,” also says these drivers are partly propelled by corporate influence and government lobbying.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a commission to “Make America Healthy Again” during Kennedy’s swearing in ceremony Feb. 13, and tasked it with investigating chronic illness and delivering an action plan to fight childhood diseases, starting with a report due within 100 days – hitting that just in time.
Axios reports:
The secretaries of agriculture, education and housing, as well as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal officials, sit on the 14-member commission.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is a member, along with Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, who co-authored the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.
What’s next: The commission now has about 80 days to create a strategy for how the federal government should respond, per Trump’s original February order. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that updated dietary guidelines will likely be released before this fall.
CNN reports:
The MAHA commission calls for studies on the broad schedule of childhood vaccines, more research into potential adverse effects of vaccination, and “true” placebo studies of those childhood immunizations, echoing many of Kennedy’s longtime rallying points around vaccine safety. The commission encourages “open dialogue” around risks and benefits of vaccines.
While the report does not explicitly draw the disproven link between vaccination and autism, it notes that “many [parents] have concerns about the appropriate use of vaccines and their possible role in the growing childhood chronic disease crisis.”
Asked about subsequent studies on vaccines and autism, Kennedy told reporters that “the prescription comes in 100 days, how we’re going to handle it, but we’re already doing a lot of the research. We were not waiting for this report to come out to begin researching the crises, including the autism crisis.”
Something something brain worms.
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