On Thursday, the monumental MAHA Commission, which is an intergovernmental agency initiative to study chronic health issues among Americans, put out a chilling report.
The United States has been experiencing a sharp rise in autism diagnoses in children, along with obesity, and other illnesses that have negatively impacted the quality of life for our country’s young people, the “Making Our Children Healthy Again” report shows.
The document is 68 pages in length and provides an in-depth look at factors causing these chronic illnesses.
“It named, among other factors, a sharp rise in the consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPF), the cumulative load of environmental toxins, and overmedication of children as chief factors in the worsening health of American children,” The Daily Caller reported.
“Most American children’s diets are dominated by ultra-processed foods (UPFs) high in added sugars, chemical additives, and saturated fats, while lacking sufficient intakes of fruits and vegetables,” the report goes on to reveal.
A total of 70 percent of the calories consumed by an American child come from ultra-processed foods, the Commission said.
Ultra-processed foods are defined as “a category of industrially manufactured food products that undergo multiple physical and chemical processing steps and contain ingredients not commonly found in home kitchens.”
The assessment also brought to light that over 50 percent of the caloric intake of America comes from these kinds of foods, which is much higher than other countries like France, Portugal, and Italy, where the caloric intake of ultra-processed food is between 10 and 31 percent.
One of the issues the report calls attention to is that the dominance of these foods has led to ultra-processed grains, sugars, and fats becoming a huge part of American children’s diets.
“The ultra-processing of these ingredients displaces nutrient-dense whole foods, resulting in a reduction of essential vitamins, minerals, fiber, and phytonutrients needed for optimal biological function,” the report said.
Ultra-processed food is driving the obesity epidemic. When we get President Trump back in the White House and me to Washington, we’re going to fix our broken food system and Make America Healthy Again. #MAHA 
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The Commission specifically laid out how the three ingredients negatively impact health. Grain processing removes bran and germ from the grain, robbing the food product of essential vitamins, minerals, and fiber, the assessment states. This vitamin removal can lead to blood sugar spikes, increasing the risk for type 2 diabetes, according to the assessment. The ultra-processed sugars, found in over 75 percent of packaged foods, are a likely cause for skyrocketing rates of childhood obesity, type-2 diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), according to the assessment.
The assessment also took aim at an oft-maligned target of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s: seed oils.
“Over the course of the 20th century, U.S. dietary fats shifted from minimally processed animal-based sources like butter and lard—rich in fat-soluble vitamins A, D, and E, supporting brain and immune health—to industrial fats from refined seed oils, such as soybean, corn, safflower, sunflower, cottonseed, and canola,” the assessment explained.
It then revealed that kids are uniquely vulnerable to the 40,000-plus chemicals that are, as of this writing, approved for use in the United States.
“The cumulative load of thousands of synthetic chemicals that our children are exposed to through the food they eat, the water they drink, and the air they breathe may pose risks to their long-term health, including neurodevelopmental and endocrine effects,” the assessment continued.
The Daily Caller concludes by saying, “The report acknowledges that vaccines benefit children and protect them from infectious diseases and states that there is a need to balance benefits with potential harmful side effects.”
