MAHA Wants Breastfeeding. Its Moms Should Demand Paid Leave.
Pediatricians recommend that babies consume only human milk for the first six months. America makes that harder than it should be.
A force to be reckoned with.
Photographer: Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesHere’s a big, pressing problem: America’s children are not healthy. Not by any metric of chronic disease, obesity or mental health. It’s more than overdiagnosing and food dyes. It feels deep and systemic and beyond parental control. We’re not really sure what to do about it, for the kids or for ourselves. But the trend lines are moving in the wrong direction.
Given the complexity of the problem, the Make Our Children Healthy Again strategy released this month feels a bit like spaghetti thrown against a wall. The report’s dozens of recommendations range from “promoting innovation in the sunscreen market” to “ensur[ing] flexibility for farms to manage manure.”