The Commission to Make America Healthy Again, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Strategies to make our children healthy againa 20-page report on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Described as A “thorough plan” to “reversal the failed policies that fuel the prevalence of chronic childhood in the United States.”
In a live broadcast at the department headquarters, Maha committee members ticked through a toxic combination of poor diet, chemical exposure, overdose of prescription drugs, and excessive stress and excessive physical exercise in the United States Sure in May.
The document does not mention guns, which is the main cause of death for people under the age of 18.
Since 2022, guns have been the cause of death for children aged 1 to 17 years each year.
In 2022, more than 2,500 children died from gunshot wounds, which is available last year when guns caused 30% of the death toll aged 15 to 17 years of gun violence solutions. Established After analyzing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Maha’s strategic absence from guns has raised alarms from pediatricians and public health experts.
“If you publish a report that should address how to help our children stay healthy without even mentioning the number one in childhood deaths, you should feel embarrassed,” said Bruce Mirken, a spokesperson for the Volunteer Alliance of Scientists, Healthcare Workers and other public health professionals, volunteers to promote adjudication and loyalty to public health professionals, volunteers, medical healthcare workers and other public health professionals.
The brief document describes over 120 topics and the supervisor plans to address short paragraphs for various subjects including water quality, superprocessed foods and fluoride.
“It lacks details on how government plans to address these issues and ignores the main drivers that harm children’s health, including gun violence and environmental hazards,” the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a statement Tuesday. “We know that to keep children healthy and help them thrive, they need to safe, stable and raising families, communities, relationships and the environment.”
When asked at Tuesday’s meeting whether the committee had considered the role of guns, Kennedy replied that his agency would focus on why young people were holding guns.
Kennedy said: “Violence is what we care about, and this violence suddenly began in the 1990s… [where] Someone walked into a school, a church or a theater and started shooting strangers. ”
Kennedy said the National Institutes of Health will soon begin studying some of the potential causes of this violence, including the use of psychiatric drugs, video games and social media.
Since the late 1980s According to data from Rockefeller Government Institute, a think tank in Albany, New York.
Previous research About the link between psychotropic substance use and mass shootings Failed to appear Evidence of causality. Kennedy often talks about his suspicions that prescribe antidepressants to trigger violence, recent After shooting last month at a Catholic school in Minneapolis.
“You may find a correlation between using psychotropic drugs and violence, but that’s because people taking these drugs suffer from depression and other mental health problems,” Milken said. study A publication in JAMA Pediatrics earlier this year, thousands of other children were found to have firearms deaths in U.S. states, with more relaxed gun laws.
Kennedy did not reveal any further details on the study Tuesday. The Trump administration has significantly cut funding for research and programs to prevent gun violence this year.
“This attitude is in line with the way Kennedy (HHS) deals with most health issues at Kennedy (HHS) — by focusing on preconceived ideas and conspiracy theories rather than actual health threats.” Dr. Adam Ratner saysa pediatric infectious disease expert in New York and the author of “Boosters: Emergency Lessons for Measles and the Uncertain Future of Child Health”.
“By ignoring guns as the primary cause of child mortality and instead focusing on the use of stigmatizing drugs, Kennedy’s strategy will harm children without any measures to address the root cause of the problem,” he said.
