Children’s Health

In May 2025, I read the "Make Our Children Healthy Again" report, 1 part of the MAHA movement led by DHHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.While it discussed some significant issues related to children's health, it also neglected to address some other truly important issues.For example, although red dye additives to food (opposed by the report) may have some minor health issues, I suspect most parents, health care providers, and public health experts would recognize that firearm injuries are the number one killer of children in the United States, not Skittles.Guns are not mentioned in the MAHA report.Neither are motor vehicle crashes nor drug overdoses, other common causes of childhood fatalities.