On Thursday, the Presidential Commission to Make America Healthy Again released its Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment report on the root causes driving childhood illness. The report found four possible contributing factors behind the rise in childhood chronic diseases: poor diet, the aggregation of environmental chemicals, lack of physical activity coupled with stress, and overmedicalization.
According to the executive order that created it, the commission now has less than three months to come up with a strategy to address these challenges.
One strategy the commission could implement is encouraging parents to make their children’s snacks healthy again.
When I played softball as a child, I fondly remember orange slices and grapes as snacks. Biting into an orange slice after a sweaty game tasted delicious.
Fast forward a few decades, and the sports are the same, but the snacks are wildly different.