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Mary Anne
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Mom of 4; Mamie to 6 grands; Retired PEDS BSN, RN, numerous dogs, 5 grandcats; & the best Hubs I could find! (29yrs & counting!)
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I have Spike. 🤓
February 14, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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There's this background section about the terrible epidemic of chronic disease & they are VERY worried about children.

Note the diseases they focus on? Autism spectrum disorders, obesity, & ADD/ADHD = vaccines did it.

"increased prescriptions" = evidence-based medicine is bad
This concern applies urgently to America’s children. In 2022, an estimated 30 million children (40.7 percent) had at least one health condition, such as allergies, asthma, or an autoimmune disease. Autism spectrum disorder now affects 1 in 36 children in the United States — a staggering increase from rates of 1 to 4 out of 10,000 children identified with the condition during the 1980s. Eighteen percent of late adolescents and young adults have fatty liver disease, close to 30 percent of adolescents are prediabetic, and more than 40 percent of adolescents are overweight or obese. These health burdens have continued to increase alongside the increased prescription of medication. For example, in the case of Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, over 3.4 million children are now on medication for the disorder — up from 3.2 million children in 2019-2020 — and the number of children being diagnosed with the condition continues to rise.
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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What are the solutions?

"fresh thinking" = non-scientific

"over-reliance on medication & treatments" = replacing vaccines and drugs with supplements

"food & drug quality & safety" = vaccines are unsafe, so let's legalize raw milk instead
To fully address the growing health crisis in America, we must re-direct our national focus, in the public and private sectors, toward understanding and drastically lowering chronic disease rates and ending childhood chronic disease. This includes fresh thinking on nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, over-reliance on medication and treatments, the effects of new technological habits, environmental impacts, and food and drug quality and safety. We must restore the integrity of the scientific process by protecting expert recommendations from inappropriate influence and increasing transparency regarding existing data. We must ensure our healthcare system promotes health rather than just managing disease.
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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"restore the integrity of the scientific process" = replace legitimate scientists with pseudoscientific quacks

"protecting expert recommendations from inappropriate influence" = removing experts because expertise is a conflict & replacing them with anti-vax scammers
To fully address the growing health crisis in America, we must re-direct our national focus, in the public and private sectors, toward understanding and drastically lowering chronic disease rates and ending childhood chronic disease. This includes fresh thinking on nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, over-reliance on medication and treatments, the effects of new technological habits, environmental impacts, and food and drug quality and safety. We must restore the integrity of the scientific process by protecting expert recommendations from inappropriate influence and increasing transparency regarding existing data. We must ensure our healthcare system promotes health rather than just managing disease.
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Now let's get to the policy.

First up, (a) here is actually proposing to defund much of the NIH's research portfolio and creating a mechanism to deny funding based on "conflicts of interest", "skewing outcomes", or "perpetuating distrust" ie expertise in a subject MAHA opposes
Sec. 2. Policy. It shall be the policy of the Federal Government to aggressively combat the critical health challenges facing our citizens, including the rising rates of mental health disorders, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. To do so, executive departments and agencies (agencies) that address health or healthcare must focus on reversing chronic disease. Under this policy: (a) all federally funded health research should empower Americans through transparency and open-source data, and should avoid or eliminate conflicts of interest that skew outcomes and perpetuate distrust;
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Next, more explicitly NIH will not fund research that doesn't focus on "root causes". Here are some "root causes" according to MAHA: vaccines, approved medications, processed food, lifestyle choices (don't use drugs or have sex for fun, unless you're the HHS Secretary, I guess)
(b) the National Institutes of Health and other health-related research funded by the Federal Government should prioritize gold-standard research on the root causes of why Americans are getting sick;
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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This seems okay—I've got no objection to supporting farmers or fresh food—but it really means let's deregulate food safety, put moo flu-loaded raw milk in every fridge, and blame obese people for bringing it on themselves
(c) agencies shall work with farmers to ensure that United States food is the healthiest, most abundant, and most affordable in the world; and
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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"Expanded treatment options" = alternative therapies and supplements instead of approved medications

"flexibility for health care coverage" = insurers will not cover existing evidence-based treatments and will subsidize supplement sellers instead
(d) agencies shall ensure the availability of expanded treatment options and the flexibility for health insurance coverage to provide benefits that support beneficial lifestyle changes and disease prevention.
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Then we've got the full list of everyone who will stand to profit from this. Got to make sure all the principals get their fair share of this redistribution of taxpayer dollars from the people to their pockets!
Sec. 3. Establishment and Composition of the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission. (a) There is hereby established the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission (Commission), chaired by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Chair), with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy serving as Executive Director (Executive Director). (b) In addition to the Chair and the Executive Director, the Commission shall include the following officials, or their designees: (i) the Secretary of Agriculture; (ii) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; (iii) the Secretary of Education; (iv) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; (v) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; (vi) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget; (vii) the Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; (viii) the Director of the National Economic Council; (ix) the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; (x) the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy; (xi) the Commissioner of Food and Drugs; (xii) the Director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; (xiii) the Director of the National Institutes of Health; and (xiv) other members of my Administration invited to participate, at the discretion of the Chair and the Executive Director.
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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"absorption of toxic material" = vaccines & drugs

"medical treatments" = vaccines & drugs

"Government policies" = evidence-based health recommendations

"corporate influence or cronyism" = LOL, look who's talking. This refers to medical consensus among experts
Sec. 4. Fighting Childhood Chronic Disease. The initial mission of the Commission shall be to advise and assist the President on how best to exercise his authority to address the childhood chronic disease crisis. Therefore, the Commission shall: (a) study the scope of the childhood chronic disease crisis and any potential contributing causes, including the American diet, absorption of toxic material, medical treatments, lifestyle, environmental factors, Government policies, food production techniques, electromagnetic radiation, and corporate influence or cronyism; (b) advise and assist the President on informing the American people regarding the childhood chronic disease crisis, using transparent and clear facts; and (c) provide to the President Government-wide recommendations on policy and strategy related to addressing the identified contributing causes of and ending the childhood chronic disease crisis.
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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"over-utilization of medication" = vaccines & drugs

"certain chemicals" = vaccine adjuvants

"chronic inflammation" = catch all for chronic illness because this is so vague it can't be defined so it can be whatever you want in terms of evidence
Sec. 5. Initial Assessment and Strategy from the Make America Healthy Again Commission. (a) Make our Children Healthy Again Assessment. Within 100 days of the date of this order, the Commission shall submit to the President, through the Chair and the Executive Director, the Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment, which shall: (i) identify and describe childhood chronic disease in America compared to other countries; (ii) assess the threat that potential over-utilization of medication, certain food ingredients, certain chemicals, and certain other exposures pose to children with respect to chronic inflammation or other established mechanisms of disease, using rigorous and transparent data, including international comparisons;
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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No more anti-depressants, anxiolytics, ADHD medications, or GLP-1 agonists (Ozempic, Mounjaro, etc) for anyone! Unclear if that last category would also apply to treating type 2 diabetes, which is also a chronic disease.
(iii) assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs;
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Instead of weight loss drugs or evidence-based treatments for mental health, let's send all the fat, sad, neurodivergent kids to wellness camps where they can heal on a steady diet of snake oil these people are selling.
(iv) identify and report on best practices for preventing childhood health issues, including through proper nutrition and the promotion of healthy lifestyles; (v) evaluate the effectiveness of existing educational programs with regard to nutrition, physical activity, and mental health for children; (vi) identify and evaluate existing Federal programs and funding intended to prevent and treat childhood health issues for their scope and effectiveness;
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Pretty rich to hear this about transparency from an administration that is systematically deleting publicly funded health data from government websites. Of course, that's so it can be replaced with new "integrity"-having MAHA data, which is what is meant by "methodological rigor"
(vii) ensure transparency of all current data and unpublished analyses related to the childhood chronic disease crisis, consistent with applicable law; (viii) evaluate the effectiveness of current Federal Government childhood health data and metrics, including those from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics and the National Survey of Children’s Health; (ix) restore the integrity of science, including by eliminating undue industry influence, releasing findings and underlying data to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, and increasing methodological rigor; and (x) establish a framework for transparency and ethics review in industry-funded projects.
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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"ending Federal practices that exacerbate the health crisis or unsuccessfully attempt to address it" = bye, bye NIAID, NCI, most of CDC's ID epi portfolio, & any other agency that isn't jumping on board the anti-vax gravy train

"expert input" = the anti-vax industrial complex
(b) Make our Children Healthy Again Strategy. Within 180 days of the date of this order, the Commission shall submit to the President, through the Chair and the Executive Director, a Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy (Strategy), based on the findings from the Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment described in subsection (a) of this section. The Strategy shall address appropriately restructuring the Federal Government’s response to the childhood chronic disease crisis, including by ending Federal practices that exacerbate the health crisis or unsuccessfully attempt to address it, and by adding powerful new solutions that will end childhood chronic disease. (c) The Chair may hold public hearings, meetings, roundtables, and similar events, as appropriate, and may receive expert input from leaders in public health and Government accountability.
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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We'll see how this plays out but from what I can see, this is laying the groundwork for a bunch of very bad ideas:

-defunding evidence-based research
-suspending vaccine access for unnecessary safety studies
-replacing medicine w/ supplements
-discrediting scientists
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Just watch. This is going to be all about replacing actual science with pseudoscience and millions will suffer as a result. But Team MAHA will not, because they'll be taking the benefits of gutting American science & health straight to the goddamn bank.
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM