Making America Healthy Again

By Donald Jeffries

In one of his many surprisingly good moves during his first month as a second-term president, Donald Trump has established the Make America Healthy Commission (MAHA), to be chaired by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) He is the perfect choice for such a role, having devoted many years to focusing on America’s chronic disease crisis.

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To quote directly from the “Purpose” section of the executive order creating the MAHA Commission:

American life expectancy significantly lags behind other developed countries, with pre-Covid-19 United States life expectancy averaging 78.8 years and comparable countries averaging 82.6 years.  This equates to 1.25 billion fewer life years for the United States population.  Six in 10 Americans have at least one chronic disease, and four in 10 have two or more chronic diseases. An estimated one in five United States adults lives with a mental illness.

Noted is the fact that the United States had nearly double the rate of age-standardized cancer of any other nation in the world. Despite trillions spent on the American Cancer Society, St. Jude’s, and other organizations, the rate of cancer has absolutely exploded in America, rising an incomprehensible 88% from 1990-2021.

While autism was virtually unheard of prior to the massive increase of childhood vaccinations in 1989, since then it has risen an astounding 2,678%. During the 1980s, the rate of autism was one in 10,000 people, but is now one in 34 people. As RFK’s presidential campaign declared:

When John F. Kennedy was president, 6% of American kids had a chronic health condition. Today it is 60%. Rates of autoimmune disease, diabetes, ADD [Attention Deficit Disorder] and ADHD [Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder], autism, obesity, asthma, food allergies, and other chronic health conditions have been skyrocketing.

These kinds of comments were the reason why RFK was grilled so mercilessly during his nomination hearings, by senators, nearly all of whom are profiting from financial contributions from the pharmaceutical industry. All those chronic diseases are typically treated by Big Pharma products, not diet and exercise.

The obesity rate among Americans has more than tripled since 1950. More than 40% of adolescents are now overweight or obese.

Allergies, especially peanut allergies, were unheard of in the 1960s and 1970s. Baby Boomers thrived on peanut butter. Starting in the 1990s, in every elementary school, one began to see signs at cafeteria tables indicating there was a child with a peanut allergy, and thus no peanut products could be eaten there. What caused such a massive change—a significant problem that literally hadn’t existed 20 years before?

RFK has talked about the enormous increase in prescription drugs like Adderall and Ritalin for supposed ADHD in children.

Because of the unprecedented increase in chronic diseases in children, an unbelievable 77% of young adults no longer qualify for military service because of their poor health. America spends an incomprehensible $4.5 trillion in annual healthcare expenditures, and 90% goes to people with chronic and mental health conditions. The policies proposed by the MAHA Commission sound reasonable, even noble. The February 13, 2025 executive order states:

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;

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;

c)  agencies shall work with farmers to ensure that United States food is the healthiest, most abundant, and most affordable in the world; and

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.

MAHA will also dig deeply into the problem of childhood chronic disease in particular, including controversial areas such as the impact of electromagnetic radiation, over medication, and food production techniques. RFK, Jr. has already mentioned the damaging and unnecessary preservatives, dyes, and other chemicals in our food. He has also vowed to remove fluoride from the water supply. Kennedy has also said he will be looking into the childhood vaccine schedule. He told his staffers during an initial meeting as HHS director:

Some of the possible factors we will investigate were formally taboo or insufficiently scrutinized. Childhood vaccine schedule, electromagnetic radiation, glyphosate, other pesticides, ultra-processed foods, artificial food allergies, SSRI [anti-depressants] and other psychiatric drugs, PFAS, PFOA, microplastics—nothing is going to be off limits.

During his confirmation hearings, RFK, Jr. was criticized by some in the alt media for seemingly distancing himself from his well documented past statements on these subjects, but it appears obvious that he was simply attempting to pacify them in order to win approval.

These are very exciting times.

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