Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Mr. Kennedy’s strategy Maha Committeeoutlined 128 policy recommendations and identified four approaches to address chronic childhood diseases: conducting research, promoting private sector collaboration, realigning incentives and raising public awareness.
this Committee Four potential drivers of chronic disease in children are cite: poor diet, chemical exposure, lack of physical exercise and chronic stress and over-medicalization.
“This is an existential crisis for our country and I am very grateful for my work for a president who is willing to cross the walls to stop this and heal our children,” Mr. Kennedy said in announcing the strategy.
He joined Maha Committee Members include Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin, Food and Drug Administration Director Dr. Marty Makary, and National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, among others.
this The committee’s The 20-page report does not list any specific ways the government can implement these recommendations or how to fund them.
Mr Kennedy said the achievements that will be achieved by the end of this year “will be historic and unprecedented”, including removing harmful chemicals from food, or removing deadlines to remove them to define super-experienced foods, identifying the need for nutritional and metabolic medium to improve food in medical schools, for military, school and hospice and water levels growth.
Other changes, he said, include reforming the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program to remove soda and candy from the program and provide more assistance to farmers.
“These are bipartisan reforms, many of which were unimaginable two years ago,” he said.
HHS will also begin working with NIH to investigate vaccine injuries, and Mr. Kennedy said there has been no vaccine in the past.
“The injured should be cared for and considered by us to give to anyone injured in this country,” he said.
Mr. Kennedy has long been skeptical about vaccines, and President Trump recently moved himself away from Mr. Kennedy’s remarks and said in the Oval Office on Friday: “I think you have to be very careful when you say some people don’t have to get vaccinated.”
“Look, your vaccines work. They’re just pure and simple jobs. They’re not controversial at all, and I think those vaccines should be used. Otherwise, some people will catch it and they endanger others.” “When you have no controversy at all, I think people should accept it.”
As part of the new strategy, HHS will work with the White House Domestic Policy Committee to develop a new vaccine framework to ensure that “the United States has the best childhood vaccine schedule.”
The report did not delve into the causes of autism, which sparked a heated public debate. It says HHS, through NIH and with Medicare and Medicaid Services Centerthe “root cause” of autism will be studied.
The report has received some criticism from scientists and researchers who say goals are important but efforts suffer from serious scientific lack.
“this Maha Committee The goal of improving children’s health is important and urgent – but must be based on transparent, repeatable scientific advice and again Maha Committee Food scientist Dr. Mark Kern said.
“Although some The committee’s Points may have less policy for consumers, farmers and food manufacturers than suggested by the original Maha report, and once policies are formulated and implemented, the lack of a reasonable scientific basis can have harmful consequences for each group. ” he said.
