The Trump administration issued its long-awaited Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission report Thursday, hammering various industries while deviating from mainstream science on key issues including farming practices, vaccinations and psychiatric medications.
President Trump appointed Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the MAHA Commission, which issued its first report on children’s health Thursday. It pointed to four key factors that it says are hurting U.S. children: ultraprocessed foods, environmental chemicals, digital behavior and “overmedicalization.”
The report identifies pesticides and other chemicals as potentially having harmful health impacts, but it stops short of recommending actions to limit them — disappointing some advocates.
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