Nick Gilbertson 22 May 2025
The White House on Thursday will release the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission’s report focused on improving the health of the nation’s children.
Breitbart News obtained a copy of the 79-page MAHA report, which President Donald Trump commissioned 100 days ago, ahead of its release this afternoon. It aims to uncover the causes of diminishing health in America’s children and “unpack the potential dietary, behavioral, medical, and environmental drivers behind the crisis.”
Section one of the report dives into ultra-processed foods (UPFs).
As one data point, it cites “[a]n umbrella review of 45 meta-analyses published in the BMJ analyzing data from nearly 10 million participants, found that higher consumption of ultra-processed foods is linked to 32 adverse health outcomes.”
These outcomes include cancer, cardiovascular disease, mental health disorders, type 2 diabetes, and all-cause mortality.
Section two examined chemicals in the environment, while section three explores “The Crisis of Childhood Behavior in the Digital Age,” including a drop-off in physical activity among children, particularly at school.
The fourth prong of the report focuses on the “Overmedicalization of Our Kids.”
“American healthcare operates in a marketplace where incentives, when misaligned, can foster and encourage overuse by allowing stakeholders to maximize profits at the expense of consumer health and wellbeing,” the report noted.
“In recent decades, American children have, as a product of these misaligned incentives, been subject to an unprecedented period of over-prescription driven, in large part, by corporate influence, with demonstrable consequences for their health,” it continues.
The report recommends ten areas of research initiatives for various government agencies as part of the next step in the process:
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