The Make America Healthy Again Commission on Tuesday released the Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy, a national plan with more than 120 initiatives aimed at reversing decades of failed policies linked to rising childhood chronic diseases.
The Commission, chaired by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., outlined targeted executive actions designed to realign food and health systems, expand research, increase transparency, and strengthen private-sector collaboration. “This strategy represents the most sweeping reform agenda in modern history—realigning our food and health systems, driving education, and unleashing science to protect America’s children and families,” Kennedy said.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke L. Rollins said the plan includes securing voluntary commitments from major food brands to eliminate artificial dyes, technical support for states restricting junk food and soda in SNAP, and new regenerative farming pilot programs to improve soil health. “America’s farmers and ranchers are at the heart of the solution — alongside doctors, parents, and communities — to fight chronic disease and protect future generations,” Rollins said.
The strategy’s focus areas include:
- Restoring Science and Research: Expanding studies on nutrition, environmental exposures, autism, vaccine injury, gut microbiome, and rural health.
- Executive Actions: Reforming dietary guidelines, labeling ultra-processed foods, closing the GRAS loophole, raising infant formula standards, removing harmful chemicals from the food supply, tightening drug advertising oversight, and improving food in schools, hospitals, and veterans’ care.
- Process Reform and Deregulation: Streamlining organic certification, restoring whole milk in schools, modernizing FDA approvals, and easing barriers to farm-to-school programs.
- Public Awareness: Launching nutrition and fitness campaigns, screen time initiatives, pediatric mental health priorities, and expanded access to reliable health information.
- Private Sector Collaboration: Encouraging healthier restaurant options, soil health practices, and community-led initiatives to address chronic disease.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin praised the plan’s environmental and health framework, calling it “the foundation for healthy lives” for future generations. FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said the report marks a shift from a “reactive” to proactive approach on chronic disease. NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya described it as a “blueprint for the entire government” to address the crisis.
The administration called the effort the most ambitious national initiative ever launched to confront childhood chronic disease and fulfill its goal to “Make America Healthy Again.”
