Letter from Our Director:
The MAHA Commission Report is a historic document that marks a turning point in our society—a time when, finally, the requests of mothers and others asking for acknowledgment of their children’s and families’ chronic illnesses and harm from toxins have been, for the most part, acknowledged.
The 68-page report is a tour de force of scientific data, bold disclosures of corporate corruption, and sweeping statements about the decline of American health that will knock your socks off. You will be shocked and stunned by the statistics, which are not just numbers but represent our loved ones.
The rise of depression, suicide, obesity, diabetes, fertility and many more health issues are staggering. We have a physical, mental, and reproductive health crisis in America, and finally, we have a President and government that is acknowledging these issues, not just a cancer crisis.
After all, one cannot get cancer if they are not born. We must address the reproductive crisis in addition to physical health, and our mental health crisis as well, which this report does.
We are thrilled that this report points to four areas of harm:
Ultra-Processed Foods
Chemical Exposure
Sedentary Lifestyles
Overmedicalization
And mentions specific contributors to our health crisis that advocates have been speaking up about tirelessly for decades:
Ultra-processed foods, seed oils, preservatives, pesticides such as glyphosate and atrazine, PFAS, phthalates, electromagnetic radiation, over-medication, the growth of the vaccine schedule (i.e., too many), corporate influence, distorted nutritional guidelines, synthetic food dyes, titanium dioxide, dioxins, propylparaben, BHT, artificial sweeteners, lack of exercise, too much screen time, chronic stress, microplastics, synthetic clothing, lack of sleep for students, lack of sunlight, and more.
The report also says the best way to reverse the childhood chronic disease crisis “is to put whole foods produced by American farmers and ranchers at the center of healthcare.”
Before we get into the counterpoints to what is missing, I would like to acknowledge, especially for the Kennedy supporters, that this report is a collaborative effort by 14 different cabinet members who had to agree on every word in the report. I understand compromises were made, and the wording is not exactly as Kennedy would have liked. I ask Kennedy supporters to consider that his commitment remains the same. He will continue to protect our children’s health and find ways to reduce exposure to all harmful chemicals, everywhere. It just may take more effort on our part, and his, to educate farmers, food manufacturers, and policy makers.
What the report is omitting is a major contributing factor to our chronic disease epidemic.
Dr Michelle Perro, a 43-year pediatrician and author of What’s Making Our Children Sick and Founder of GMOScience.org, has pointed out is with
Eighty percent of GMOs are engineered to withstand glyphosate, yet there is no mention of GMOs and their innate harm, and the mention of glyphosate is not all-inclusive of its harmful effects. I will explain.
The report states that “selected studies have noted a range of possible health effects" regarding glyphosate.
However, hundreds of studies have clearly shown that glyphosate is directly harming the American public. Clearly, Big Ag interests influenced the outcome of this report.