No matter your political persuasion, everyone agrees the numbers are real: US children are increasingly unhealthy π
Mental health aside (which knows no economic boundaries) let's address why oh why, the sporty look alike kids form swanky neighborhoods are not pre-diabetic, obese and asthmatic?? Could it be.... because they aren't poor? Gasp!
Yet our cruelty driven Trump fueled party believes it can somehow improve health outcomes that are linked to poverty.... with.... more poverty!! Forcing unwanted babies to be brought to term for those that can't leave the state, cutting food assistance programs and medicaid.
As if with less food assistance funds, poor moms are going to put on their jogging shorts, drop junior off at soccer and trot on over to Whole foods to stock up on organic broccoli and milk?
Stressed out parents wading through poverty, don't want their kids to be unhealthy. But they do know that cheap food will placate their kids stuck at home in unsafe neighborhoods! And kids hooked on sweet cereals and sodas, with no affordable replacement nutrition, aren't going to be miraculously "fixed" with RFK Fit Bits. But maybe they could all become Kennedy's?