Posted on 05/22/2025 12:17:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A highly anticipated White House report blames a crisis of chronic illness on ultraprocessed foods, chemical exposures, lifestyle factors and excessive use of prescription drugs, including antidepressants.
The White House set forth its vision on Thursday for how to “make America healthy again” with the release of an expansive report that blames a crisis of chronic disease in children on ultraprocessed foods, chemical exposures, lack of physical activity, stress and excessive use of prescription drugs, including antidepressants.
The report is the product of a presidential commission led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and does not offer specific policy prescriptions. Rather, it offers up carefully selected studies and proposes new research. But it is unmistakably Mr. Kennedy’s worldview, echoing many of the talking points — some intensely disputed — that the health secretary, a former environmental lawyer and outspoken vaccine skeptic, has repeated for decades.
The commission paints a bleak picture of American children, calling them “the sickest generation in American history.” It calls out undue corporate influence in federal policymaking and makes the case that the government has invested far too much in research to develop treatments for chronic diseases like heart disease, cancer, obesity and depression — and far too little in understanding the causes of disease and how to prevent it.
In some cases, the report misrepresents existing scientific consensus. It implies, for example, that the increase in routine immunizations given to children may be harmful to them, which many scientists say is based on an incorrect understanding of immunology. It calls for further scientific inquiry “into the links between vaccines and chronic disease,” despite dozens of studies that have failed to find a link.
It also assails “the overmedicalization of American children,” which it blames on pharmaceutical industry “capture” of the nation’s biomedical...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Solve that, and you will also likely solve America’s fertility crisis - and that’s not simply “people choosing not to have kids” (although that is part of it)
“In some cases, the report misrepresents existing scientific consensus.”
You mean the “safe and effective” scientific consensus that immediately dismissed treatments such as ivermectin and HCQ??
despite dozens of studies that have failed to find a link
Yeah...studies funded by big pharma...what could possibly go wrong?
The consensus paid for by the pharmaceutical industry that more drugs are better (for their profit margins).
Which is more newsworthy and worse?
The catastrophe or the painting?
More likely kids unvaccinated for measles, and other maladies.
Food makes a huge difference. I never ate any processed food or gave it to my kids. No soft drinks either, though I’m sure they got some when they were teenagers, just not from me.
My drink of choice is Kombucha, comes in many flavors and contains probiotics, actually good for you. 0.06% alcohol content but my friend who leads largest AA group in town says it’s OK and he liked it when I served it with dinner instead of wine.
Typical day in the life of the child of a single mom:
6:45am: Board school bus.
6:45-7:15: Ride bus with rowdy kids, get bullied or have to watch other kids be bullied
7:15-7:45: Free or reduced cost breakfast in school cafeteria
7:45am - 3:00 pm: Imprisoned in public school
3pm-3:30pm: Ride bus to after school day care facility, again with the bullying
3:30-6:00: Imprisoned in daycare facility
6:00pm-6:45pm: Ride home with tired Mom, stopping at McDonald’s, where Mom uses her EBT card to get dinner, wolf down what passes for food in the back seat.
6:45-9pm: Do homework, if any, play video games.
What kid wouldn’t be depressed? Oh, yeah, let’s try to fix it with drugs, mess with a child’s brain chemistry.
Bleak? LOL!
Here is the video.
https://www.youtube.com/live/dDkYJxE9WTc?si=H3pgaGYD5KFYKkf7
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