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American kids have become increasingly unhealthy over nearly two decades, new study finds
Associated Press ^ | 12:44 PM EDT, July 7, 2025 | Laura Ungar and Jonel Aleccia

Posted on 07/07/2025 9:04:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai

The health of U.S. children has deteriorated over the past 17 years, with kids today more likely to have obesity, chronic diseases and mental health problems like depression, a new study says.

Much of what researchers found was already known, but the study paints a comprehensive picture by examining various aspects of children’s physical and mental health at the same time.

“The surprising part of the study wasn’t any with any single statistic; it was that there’s 170 indicators, eight data sources, all showing the same thing: a generalized decline in kids’ health,” said Dr. Christopher Forrest, one of the authors of the study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has brought children’s health to the forefront of the national policy conversation, unveiling in May a much-anticipated “Make America Healthy Again” report that described kids as undernourished and overmedicated, and raised concerns about their lack of physical activity. …

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TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: genderdysphoria; grooming; homosexualagenda; jama; kidshealth; leftwingagitprop; maha; malnourishment; overmedication; rfkjr
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe if the kids played outside...rode bikes...walked...ran...put down the phones and put down the video games. Maybe if the kids (and adults) ate fewer processed snacks and so forth. Maybe lifestyle leads to their deterioration both physically and emotionally. Maybe...


21 posted on 07/08/2025 5:58:04 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: HIDEK6

Never had a TV till 1956. After watching TV for a year, I wondered “What did we do in the evenings BEFORE we had TV!” I could not remember! I was 9 at the time. Within another year I noticed how the TV shows were manipulating us even back then.
I quit watching the TV shows back in 1960 when I discovered library BOOKS! Today I only watch OLD movies produced before the manipulators began to film trash.


22 posted on 07/08/2025 6:42:03 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: Olog-hai

Only over two decades?


23 posted on 07/08/2025 7:09:13 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: Olog-hai

Not only unhealthy but stupidiy is at the top of tha scale.


24 posted on 07/08/2025 8:00:36 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Seems to be something going on in schools or some other sources, to make sure that a lot of young kids are screwed up in the head by the time they reach college age. It’s like there is too much outside influence from certain sources & not nearly enough from the parents. Unless the parents are also screwed up in the head.


25 posted on 07/08/2025 9:05:04 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Bob434

On the plus side, they type a lot better...😂


26 posted on 07/08/2025 10:14:36 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Moltke

LOL- Yup- my dyslexic typign finger strikes again- lol


27 posted on 07/08/2025 11:15:37 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: quantim

lol


28 posted on 07/08/2025 11:47:23 PM PDT by wardaddy ( The Blob must be bled dry but don’t hold your breath )
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To: Olog-hai

Not out in the sunshine nearly enough.

They can’t see their smartphone screens in the bright light.


29 posted on 07/11/2025 6:19:13 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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