The kids are not okay.
Health and Human Service's "Make America Healthy Again" Commission just laid out 4 key factors that may be damaging to our health:
Ultra-processed foods, chemical exposures, lack of physical activity, and over-medicalization.
The report directs the entire administration to understand why this is happening and what public policy can the administration implement to make sure we are fostering a more healthy country for our children.
Here's a little more on the report:
And a taste of the dismal state of the youth in America today.
'Over 40% of the roughly 73 million children (aged 0-17) in the United States have at least one chronic health condition, according to the CDC, such as asthma, allergies, obesity, autoimmune diseases, or behavioral disorders,' the report stated ...
Chronic diseases have a chilling effect on national security, commission members said in a Thursday morning phone call with the media. Roughly 75% of America's youth aged 17 - 24 do not qualify to serve in the military due to obesity, asthma, allergies, autoimmune diseases or behavioral disorders, they said.
3 out of 4 young adults are too obese and too sick to join the military.
That's an insane stat!
'We now have the most obese, depressed, disabled, medicated population in the history of the world, and we cannot keep going down the same road,' Food and Drug Commissioner Marty Makary said in the phone call with the media. 'So this is an amazing day. I hope this marks the grand pivot from a system that is entirely reactionary to a system that will now be proactive.'
Praying that's true.
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