MAHA Commission Recommends Nutrition Trials to Improve Childhood Health

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The Make America Healthy Again report includes 10 recommendations.

President Donald Trumpโ€™s commission on health on May 22 said that the government should launch new clinical trials on nutrition and improve the surveillance of vaccines and other drugs given to children.

A report from the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission says that the childhood chronic disease crisis is likely being driven by poor diet, including a prevalence of ultra-processed foods, such as food high in sugar and fat; higher levels of exposure to chemicals, including pesticides; a lack of physical activity combined with chronic stress; and an overprescription of medications, including prescriptions for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

โ€œAmerica will begin reversing the childhood chronic disease crisis during this administration by getting to the truth of why we are getting sick and spurring pro-growth policies and innovations to reverse these trends,โ€ it states.

The commission issued 10 recommendations, including a call for the National Institutes of Health to fund new long-term trials comparing whole-food and low-ultra-processed food diets to assess their effects on obesity, and for health agencies to develop new systems to monitor the safety of vaccines and other pediatric drugs.

โ€œOur kids are the sickest kids in the world,โ€ Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told reporters on a call. He added later that officials had already begun a lot of the research the report recommends.

The report cites dozens of documents, including research that found children are eating less fruit, with about half of youth aged 2 to 19 not having fruit at all on a given day, a study that concluded ultra-processed foods have a poor nutrient profile, and a review that associated a diet high in ultra-processed foods with obesity.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that more than four out of 10 children in the United States have at least one chronic health condition, such as asthma. About 75 percent of American youth are not eligible for military service, primarily due to obesity and poor fitness, according to the Department of Defense.

Other recommendations include funding studies to evaluate how ingredients historically deemed generally safe by the Food and Drug Administration affect human health; creating a task force to apply artificial intelligence to federal datasets to detect early chronic disease trends; and investing in non-animal testing models.

By Zachary Stieber

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