How Big Government, Big Pharma and Big Food are making Americans overweight, addicted and chronically ill
“Make America Healthy Again,” the new Trump administration agenda inspired and led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., couldn’t be more vital – indeed, crucial – considering the alarming decline in Americans’ health. Consider:
* The U.S. is in the grip of a full-blown obesity epidemic, with well over 200 million Americans – including millions of children – being overweight or obese. According to the CDC, over 40% of adults in the United States are clinically obese, in stark contrast with the 1950s, when approximately 10% of U.S. adults were obese.
* The number of American children and adults with autism spectrum disorders has exploded, rising by 175% over just the last decade. One out of every 36 children in the U.S. has been diagnosed with autism, up from 1 in 44 as recently as 2021. In contrast, during the 1950s, autism was virtually nonexistent, afflicting between 0.01% and 0.05% of Americans born during that decade.