The Trump administration released a report Tuesday outlining a broad strategy to improve children's health. It calls for a wide range of executive actions and policy reforms aimed at tackling a rise in chronic diseases.

In announcing the report, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called chronic disease in kids "an existential crisis for our country" and said the report's 128 recommendations are "historic and unprecedented."

"There's never been an effort like this across all the government agencies," he said.

The Make America Healthy Again Commission, led by Kennedy, identified four potential drivers behind rising rates of chronic disease among children, including poor diet, chemical exposure, lack of physical activity and chronic stress, as well as "overmedicalization" – which the c

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