The federal Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released its strategy report on Sept. 9, setting the stage for dozens of initiatives aimed at improving the health of American children.
The strategy document was commissioned by President Donald Trump by executive order in February and builds on the commission’s May 22 assessment of the factors that are driving an increase in chronic illness among children.
“Thirty-eight percent of teens are now diabetic or pre diabetic,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.said at a press conference introducing the strategy.
“The autism rates, which the president is particularly concerned with, have dropped from less than one in 10,000 in 1971 to one in every 31 kids today. This is a national security issue,” Kennedy said, also noting that 80 percent of young people cannot meet the physical qualifications for military service….