US EditionThe MAGA Movement’s Child Health Manifesto Is a Muddle
- A report published by the White House on May 22, 2025, addressed factors contributing to chronic diseases in U.S. Children, placing significant emphasis on the impact of ultraprocessed foods.
- The report, supported by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Of the Department of Health and Human Services, addresses research connecting ultraprocessed foods to the increasing prevalence of childhood illnesses.
- It states that nearly 70% of children's diets and half of pregnant and postpartum women's diets consist of ultraprocessed foods, which often contain high sugar and additives.
- Kennedy announced a follow-up report for mid-August 2025 that will propose structural shifts in U.S. Food production to reduce ultraprocessed food consumption.
- Addressing the chronic illness crisis will require policy changes challenging entrenched commercial interests due to the ultraprocessed food industry's size and influence.
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Michelle Jaelin: Trust the science on making kids healthy (Opinion)
As a registered dietitian, I’ve dedicated my career to helping families live healthier lives through better nutrition. That is why I am encouraged to see the Make America Healthy Again Commission, which will focus on reversing childhood chronic disease.
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MAHA report on children’s health highlights harms of ultraprocessed foods – a food scientist explains the research
Ultraprocessed foods contain ingredients not found in a typical kitchen and are often designed to be extremely palatable. beats3/iStock viaGetty Images PlusOn May 22, 2025, the White House released a new report highlighting what it claims are the causes of chronic disease in children. The report fleshes out many of the themes that have emerged as priorities for the Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement promoted by Health and Human Servic…
Linda Boyle: MAHA report on childhood health crisis in America is a 'Must Read'
By LINDA BOYLE President Trump’s Executive Order 14212 of Feb. 13 established the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission. Within the first 100 days, the commission was required to submit to the President the Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment. Then within 180 days, the Commission had to submit to the President its strategy based on […] The post Linda Boyle: MAHA report on childhood health crisis in America is a ‘Must Read’ …
The MAHA Commission’s Plan to Fix Kids’ Health
The White House’s MAHA Commission has finally unveiled its analysis of America’s childhood-disease crisis. The report is equal parts revelation, contradiction, and ultra-processed, high-caloric rhetoric - ironically, the rhetorical additives the panel warns us to cut from our diets.
The Summer of 2025 for U.S. Healthcare: What Organizations should Expect – RamaOnHealthcare
Last Thursday, the Make America Healthy Again Commission released its 68-page report “Making America’s Children Healthy Again Assessment” featuring familiar themes—the inadequacy of attention to chronic disease by the health system, the “over-medicalization” of patient care vis a vis prescription medicines et al, the contamination of the food-supply by harmful ingredients, and more. HHS Secretary [...]
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