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America’s Silent Epidemic: The Alarming Rise of Chronic Disease

https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2025/03/combating-americas-chronic-disease-epidemic.html

The fact that the chronic disease epidemic persists despite significant expenditures on prevention may indicate that the solution may not lie in more spending on prevention but in “smarter” spending.

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/08/rfk-jr-s-exaggerations-on-chronic-disease-in-children/

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has given children’s health and the “chronic disease epidemic” a prominent role in his campaign.

“When John F. Kennedy was president, 6% of American kids had a chronic health condition,” reads a page on Kennedy’s campaign website detailing his intention to “end the chronic disease epidemic” in the U.S. “Today it is 60%. Rates of autoimmune disease, diabetes, ADD and ADHD, autism, obesity, asthma, food allergies, and other chronic health conditions have been skyrocketing.”

I can write here some of my ideas ideas on the reasons of this problem, but my ideas can be considered as "pseudoscientific" and "speculative".

8 hours ago, Linkey said:

I can write here some of my ideas ideas on the reasons of this problem,

I’ve only seen assertions that it’s an “epidemic” but no real analysis showing it.

8 hours ago, Linkey said:

but my ideas can be considered as "pseudoscientific" and "speculative".

You can say the same about any writeup that’s citing RFK Jr, who is a quack. Your last link points out that his claims are exaggerated, so why quote him?

Also from the article:

Paul Newacheck, a professor emeritus who studied children’s health policy at the University of California, San Francisco for multiple decades, said it was “unrealistic” to claim that 60% of U.S. children have chronic health conditions. “The big growth areas are obesity and mental/behavioral conditions,” Newacheck told us via email. “But they don’t add up to 60% of kids.”

However, I would agree that wild assumptions without even having the basics right are by definition speculative and as a method not scientific. For a proper scientific inquiry you have to start and end with accurate data and provide evidence for any assertions made. This takes time and effort, something that only few are willing to invest (including RFK Jr. and his foundation).

But one of the big issues associated with a range of chronic diseases is obesity. And the reason for that is not precisely a mystery (though somewhat complex).