Within days of the Trump administration’s release of its Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) strategy to improve children’s health, UNICEF reported childhood obesity has doubled worldwide. For the first time, there are more obese than underweight children in the world. This is a problem that can no longer be ignored.

The MAHA Commission’s report centers around four drivers of childhood chronic disease: poor diet, chemical exposure, reduced physical activity coupled with stress, and overmedicalization. It calls for new research — on everything from nutrition to air quality — and proposes no less than 40 policy reforms.

Reactions have been predictable: praise for raising public awareness, but criticism for its details. And in the background, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dominates the news cycle a

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