Eastern Wisconsin’s representative in Congress led a hearing this week on how to make children healthy again.
Representative Glenn Grothman is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services, which brought in Doctors Dorothy Fink, M.D., the Head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps at the Department of Health and Human Services and Eve Stoody, Ph.D., the Director of Nutrition Guidance and Analysis Division at the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to talk about Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kenedy’s goal of getting America back on track.
On last Friday’s Jim and Rick Show on WOMT, the guys aired a statement from RFK Jr. regarding the state of health in America.
“I got the latest numbers from CDC,” he reported. “76.4% of Americans now have a chronic disease. This is stunning.”
Rep. Grothman started the hearing on Tuesday with another eye-raising statistic.
He explained, “77% of our youth between the ages of 17 and 27 would not qualify for military service without a waiver due to obesity or other health conditions.”
He also noted that the number of child psychiatrists in the U.S. has grown by over 37% in the last seven years, and that children are being over-medicated.
Dr. Fink called these issues a “matter of national importance.”
“For too long, the public health and medical establishments have described conditions such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and obesity as progressive, incurable, and lifelong conditions,” she told the committee. “Americans are bombarded by advertisements suggesting that medications alone can manage these conditions. Missing from this narrative, and central to Secretary Kennedy’s vision, is the recognition that many of these conditions are preventable, and potentially reversible.”
Dr. Stoody specifically called the state of the American diet “poor” and stated that “has resulted in worsening health outcomes among children and adolescents, which have contributed to increased rates of chronic disease.”
The full hearing, which included some ways the problem can be addressed, can be found at Oversight.House.gov.
