Maha report about the health of the children highlights 4 important points – Deseret News

America's children have a health crisis based on the poor diet, which is caused by ultra-processed foods, toxic environmental chemicals, too little physical activity, chronic stress and “over-medication”.

This goes from the excited report by the Make America Healthy Nut Commission under the direction of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary for health and human service, and the leaders of important government companies, including the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institute of Health, the centers for disease control and prevention, the Ministry for Agriculture and the Ministry Veteran affairs.

The Commission wrote that the aim of the report is to “determine a clear, evidence -based basis for political interventions, institutional reforms and social changes that are necessary for the backward course”.

The report paints a picture of American health – and especially children – this is anything but rosy. The United States spends twice as much as its health nations for health, but are associated with a higher level of heart disease, obesity and diabetes for life expectancy.

The report also notes that 40% of the approximately 73 million US children under the age of 18 have at least one chronic state based on CDC data. One of five over 6 years is obese. And it is said that three quarters of young people between the ages of 17 and 24 are “not too justified for military service-especially because of obesity, poor physical fitness and/or mental health problems”.

“Today's children are the sickest generation in American history in terms of chronic diseases, and these avoidable trends always deteriorate every year and are a threat to health, economy and the military willingness of our nation,” according to the Commission.

Here are some important snack bars from the report “make our children healthy again”.

Diet has shifted to ultra -processed foods

According to the report, the US food system is “safe, it could be healthier”. It finds that most children eat many ultra-processed foods that tend to have additional sugar, chemical additives and saturated fats. It does not help that the same ultra-processed foods make up about half of the diet of pregnant and postpartum mothers.

Children need more fruits and vegetables and other whole foods in accordance with the Commission, the said that the government programs have tightened the problem.

The shift to a diet based on ultra-processed food means that children consume more calories, but receive fewer nutrients, while according to the report, they consume “harmful additives”, which states that almost 70% of the calories for children come from ultra-processed food.

The health challenges for children include a strong increase in the number with diabetes and a stronger incidence of blood sugar levels, which are classified as “pre -diabetics”.

Exposed to environmental chemicals

The mere volume of exposure to environmental chemicals was associated with both developmental issues and chronic diseases in accordance with the report. It also adds that “pesticides, microplastics and dioxins are often contained in the blood and in the urine of American children and pregnant women – some at alarming levels”.

The report adds chemical exposure in crucial stages of development in the high rates of chronic diseases. The determination of the risk assessment methods may not provide a complete understanding of how the exposure affects people.

In the report, the committee found that exposure to harmful chemicals can violate the immune systems that develop, derail neuro development, disrupt hormones and have long -term effects on the brain.

Too little activity, too much stress

“American children have unprecedented inactivity, screen consumption, sleep deprivation and chronic stress,” wrote the commissioners.

Screens – from television devices to cell phones to computers to video games – are given a big fault for children more fitting than in previous generations. And that can contribute to loneliness, chronic stress and too little sleep with the authors.

The report states that teenagers do not meet school screen time and 70% of the children and 85% of teenagers for one hour with moderate to violent physical activity every day. Plus 8 out of 10 students who sleeps at least eight hours a night.

In the meantime, persistent sadness concerns up to 42% of the students and near a third of these students have thoughts of suicide. The report finds loneliness in the years for 16 to 24 years and said that 15% of young men do not even have a close friend.

Overwritten and unable to thrive

The report mentions the trend that medication for children can be seen “often of conflicts of interest in medical research, regulation and practice”, which leads to the occasion that leads to treatments that are not required, and long -term health risks.

According to the Commission, the aggressive treatment of chronic diseases of chronic diseases in childhood with prescription drugs can “further damage the health of American children if they are used inappropriately”.

The report states, for example, that the use of stimulants for the attention deficit in 2006 to 2016 rose by 250%, but there is no evidence that the results have improved during this time.

The use of prescription antidepressants increased even more for young people around 1400%from the late 1980s to 2014, although psychotherapy had proven to be effective at short notice and possibly long -term.

The report also notes that the increase in the use of antipsychotics in children was considerable, but the recipes were not even written for conditions that the FDA had approved for children.

Antibiotics were also overdated for children and infants and were able to lead to long -term problems such as asthma, allergic rhinitis, obesity and other diseases according to the report.

The report also determines that the need for advantages and risks of vaccines can compensate for and tell the parents more whether children receive certain vaccines, as well as more tests of vaccines against placebo in strict clinical studies.

Two weeks ago, Kennedy spoke in a Fox News interview with Bret Baier in the preview of the report of a “complete misalignment of cash incentives and public health” and said that the health system contains a “bundle of perverse incentives”.