The MAHA Report Exposes the Health Crisis Killing Our Kids: Here’s How We Fight Back
Ultra-processed food, toxic environments, and screen addiction are wrecking American children. This isn’t just a crisis—it’s a war for the future.
America’s Children Are in Crisis — And No One’s Coming to Save Them
The MAHA Report Is a Gut Punch. Here’s Why You Need to Pay Attention.
We’ve let our kids down. The government just confirmed it.
The White House’s Make Our Children Healthy Again (MAHA) report dropped, and it’s not a gentle nudge—it’s a hard slap to the face of every parent, policymaker, and adult who’s been asleep at the wheel while our children’s health tanks in real time.
Let me hit you with four wild facts:
Over 1 in 5 children aged six and older are obese. And that’s not baby fat, it’s chronic inflammation, pre-diabetes, and heart issues before puberty.
More than 25% of teens have pre-diabetes. We used to worry about this in retirees, and now it’s in middle school and high school homerooms.
Autism now affects 1 in 31 kids. That number used to be 1 in 10,000 not long ago.
Childhood cancer has skyrocketed by 40% since 1975.
Still think it’s “just a phase”?
You can’t simply adopt a “positive mindset” or promote a “health at every size” movement to get your way out of this.
We Are the Problem, And We Are the Cure.
This isn’t a mysterious curse.
The MAHA Report (link below) pulls the curtain back and shows what we’ve really allowed to be done as American citizens:
We’ve let ultra-processed garbage fill our kids’ plates. 70% of their calories come from food-like products loaded with seed oils, sugar, and chemicals you can’t pronounce.
We’ve turned screens into babysitters. The average child now spends over 7 hours a day staring at a screen. That’s not entertainment, it’s mental and physical waste and decay.
We’ve drugged the symptoms. Instead of solving root problems, we hand out pills for attention, anxiety, sleep, and focus. We’ve turned children into pharmaceutical customers before they even hit puberty.
We’ve surrounded them with toxins. Pesticides, plastics, forever chemicals inside our bodies…This generation swims in a chemical soup, and we act surprised when their bodies fail.
The current state of children’s health is a result of adults prioritizing convenience over protecting children.
The Report Isn’t Enough, Action Is Required.
The MAHA Commission has 80 days to draft a strategy to reverse this nightmare, and that’s great - but here’s the truth:
Washington won’t fix this: They helped create it.
Big Pharma won’t fix this: They profit from it.
Big Food won’t fix this: They engineered it.
It starts with us…
The parents, coaches, men, and women who are willing to get ourselves in shape, and be uncomfortable, read labels, kill bad habits, and raise hell at school boards and pediatric offices when necessary.
Here’s how we start:
Clear out the junk from your house. If it has more than five ingredients or includes “red 40” it doesn’t belong in your kid’s body.
Make movement mandatory. No more 5-hour Roblox marathons; get outside with your kids; Lift, Run, Sweat, and Play every day with them. Don’t shame them for being on electronics, inspire them by showing the world has more to offer than the screen.
Audit the medicine cabinet. If your kid’s on meds, ask why. Then ask again, and get a second opinion from someone who has nothing to benefit from your child being on drugs for being a child.
Grow a spine. Say no to those offering you snacks. Say “we don’t eat that”, when people try to sabotage your efforts. Say “we’re going for a walk.” This is leadership, not cruelty.
They Deserve Better - So Do We.
You want a nation of strong, capable adults?
Start with strong, capable children.
You want fewer broken men and burned-out women?
Stop raising sick, sedated, overstimulated kids.
The report is the warning shot.
The real battle starts now.
Fix your house, then help fix your community, because no one is coming to save our kids, except us.
- Zac Small
PS: For full context, read the MAHA report here:
