In the early 1980s, fewer than 10% of American children had a chronic health condition. Today that number is over 40%, and some data put it above 50%, often with multiple conditions occurring simultaneously. The Make America Healthy Again report identifies four possible contributors: food, forever chemicals, behavior, and over-medicalization.
@AaronSiriSG has a question about that fourth category. Every chronic condition that has exploded, asthma, ADHD, allergies, atopic disease, and the rest, shares a common thread: its root involves immune system dysregulation. Our federal health agencies cannot explain why these conditions have skyrocketed across every religion, racial group, and demographic in the country.
The CDC vaccine schedule on or before a child's first birthday in 1986 included 3 injections. The current schedule includes 29, including injections administered in utero. If you're looking for what might be dysregulating the immune systems of an entire generation of American children, Siri says that's probably where you start.