President Donald Trump shows during an event of the White House for the release of Make America Healthy Healthy Nut Commission on May 22, 2025. Agriculture Minister Brooke Rollins, the secretary of the health and human service, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Education Minister Linda McMahon are also mapped. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Washington-Die Make America Healthy Nut Commission, which was founded by President Donald Trump at the beginning of this year, published her first report on Thursday and asked the administration and the legislator to improve the well-being of the country’s well-being.
The 73-page report Shortly after Trump and several cabinet secretaries organized an event in which their concerns were emphasized with four areas – nutrition, physical activity, environmental factors and “over -medication”.
“In the next 80 days, the Commission will build on its work in this report to develop a street map for brave and transformative public health reforms for our examination,” said Trump.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary for Health and Human Services, said, the report and the administration’s approach to health problems in childhood are “there is no difference between good economic policy, good environmental policy and good policy of public health and a good industrial policy. We can all have.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of the U.S. Ministry of Agriculture, said that everyone knows that American agricultural interests have to be at the center of the Make America Healthy or Maha, agenda.
“We have the most robust, safest, the best agricultural system in the world,” said Rollins.
However, mainstream groups were not ecstatic. “The farmers are identified as” critical partners “and, despite many inquiries for a seat at the table, were excluded from the development of the report,” wrote the President of the American Farm Bureau, Zippy Duvall.
“Corporatization and consolidation” in the food system
The numerous options, such as American agriculture and food that have developed people eat, have received considerable attention in the report.
“Our agricultural system has focused on abundance and affordability. The progress that we have made are largely thanks to the hard work of American farmers, cattle breeders and food scientists,” says the challenging work. “However, the rise of (Ultra processed food) has a pattern of corporate and consolidation in our food system. Today’s diet-conical crisis crisis require a more precise examination of this pattern and its broader effects. “
The report mentions pesticides several times, but does not demand that they are prohibited immediately.
“Some studies have concerns about possible relationships between some of these products and negative health results, especially in children,, especially in children, but human studies are limited,” says the report. “A selection of research studies on a herbicide (glyphosate), for example, has found a number of possible health effects that range from reproductive and developmental disorders as well as cancer, liver inflammation and metabolic disorders.”
kennedy Signed to the beginning of this week during a hearing of the US Senate Committee On the basis of designs of the report he had seen: “There is not a single word in them that should worry about the American farmer.”
His comments came during an exchange with the Republican Senator of Mississippi, Cindy Hyde-Smith, who specifically asked him GlyphosateA frequently used herbicide, which she described as “one of the most thoroughly examined products of its kind”.
“We are talking about more than 1,500 studies and more than 50 years of reviewing the EPA and other leading global health authorities who have confirmed their security as stated,” said Hyde-Smith. “Could you review thousands of studies and decades of scientific reviews in a few months?”
During this term, Kennedy replied that “her information about the report is simply wrong”.
Sleep, stress, social media
The report combines recommendations that have been supported by research for a long time, e.g. B. train regularly and eat a balanced diet, with suggestions that are not fully supported by science.
It is found that “physical activity, the moderate to huge -scale movement, aerobic fitness and shortened sitting time, is crucial for the health and well -being of children.
“However, American young people have seen a steady decline in activity and cardio -piratory fitness for decades, which contributed to increasing obesity, diabetes, mental illnesses and cardiometabolic risks.”
The report creates children who cannot get enough sleep and chronic stress as health challenges in addition to the spread of social media.
“The almost ubiquitous presence of social media in the lives of American adolescents, whereby up to 95% of teenagers regularly use at least one or more of these platforms-with a relevant increase in psychological health problems, especially among younger users, according to the report.” Since the immense majority of teenagers are connected to these platforms, it is of critical importance, the nuanced consequences and mental mental Effects of social media on their creed. “
No mention of gun violence
The report contained no mention of gun violence, a main cause of American children and adolescents, so Data From the centers for the control and prevention of diseases, analysis From the impartial health research organization KFF and from a report From the Johns Hopkins Center for Weapons Solutions.
“The United States is by far the highest mortality rate for children’s and teenage weapons among peers. In no other similarly large, wealthy country are firearms in the Top -Vier -death causes for children and adolescents, let alone the main cause,” says KFFS analysis. “The US states with most of the arms laws have lower deaths for children’s and teenage weapons than states with a few arms laws. Even states with the lowest deaths for children’s and teenage weapons have much higher than what the peer countries experience.”
The Johns Hopkin’s report notes that arms mortality in children between 1 and 17 years “has increased by 106 percent since 2013 and has been the most common cause of death in this group since 2020”.
In 2022, according to the report, there were 2,526 weapon deaths in this age group for an average of seven a day.
The KFF analysis shows that other main causes for death in childhood, motor vehicles, cancer, suffocation, innate anomalies, poisoning and drowning include.
Farm Bureau, maize breeder critically
Farm groups were doubtful about the conclusions of the report.
The Duvall of the American Farm Bureau said that it was “deeply worried for the White House to support a report, saw the seeds of doubt and fear of our food system and our food practices, then try to celebrate farmers and the crucial role that they play in the production of the safest food supply in the world.”
“The report also expresses the desire to ensure that farmers continue to thrive but undermine trust in our food system, contradicts this noble goal,” said Duvall. “The report shows outdoor studies and shows unproven theories that feed a false story and only then recognizes a mountain of evidence of the safety of our food system.”
The chairman of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, Jolene Riessen, said that the “bad information in relation to plant protection tools are incredibly annoying, because if there is one thing that all farmers have in common, it is the case that we take care of increasing protected, fit and affordable foods, the families all over the world nourish.
“Agriculture is a science, and we have spent years to test and explore pesticides such as glyphosate to confirm that they are a safe and important tool farmer, rely on farmers to feed the world.”
Others said the report was missing. Lori Ann Burd, director of environmental health of the environment of the Center for Biological Diversity, wrote in a statement that the recognition of the pesticide risks for the health of our children through the report is a tiny step forward “before the administrative officials from Trump were restored because they did not go any further.
“The basic movement of millions of Americans who trusted Trump with their voices will not forget that RFK Jr. was determined by the powerful industrial agricultural forces to ensure that there are no US restrictions on harmful pesticides such as atrazine that are prohibited in 60 nations,” wrote Burd. “Instead of protecting our children, every year we use over 70 million pounds atrazine on corn and sugar cane plants that make the Americans sick. The fight for the ban on atrazine continues.”
