Kids healh has declined over past 17 years

Axios - Children's physical and mental health declined across multiple measures over the 17 years ending in 2023, according to new research led by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia...

U.S. children ages 3 to 17 were 15-20% more likely to have a chronic health condition in 2023 compared with 2011, the study finds.

• The prevalence of anxiety, autism and vision problems, among other conditions, increased significantly in two separate sets of data analyzed by the researchers.
• The childhood obesity rate rose from 17% in 2007-2008 to nearly 21% from 2021-2023.

"We need to not just examine the food environment, the chemical environment, or the technological environment, but the whole ecosystem that kids are growing up in," lead author Christopher Forrest told Science.