{"id":2440546,"date":"2025-05-29T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maha-movement-needs-to-get-our-kids-moving-joe-concha\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T17:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T21:19:02","slug":"maha-movement-needs-to-get-our-kids-moving-joe-concha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maha-movement-needs-to-get-our-kids-moving-joe-concha\/","title":{"rendered":"MAHA movement needs to \u2018get our kids moving\u2019: Joe Concha"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaha-movement-needs-to-get-our-kids-moving-joe-concha%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2440546&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a discussion on Fox News&#8217;s *Outnumbered*, Joe Concha from the *Washington Examiner* emphasized the need for the &#8220;Make America Healthy Again&#8221; movement to combat childhood inactivity, noting that one in five children in the U.S. suffers from obesity. He praised Health and human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. for his proactive efforts to address children&#8217;s health issues and advocated for getting kids outside and away from screens, reminiscing about more active lifestyles from the 1990s. Concha also humorously reflected on his own experiences with sugary snacks,referencing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-calls-on-pentagon-to-restore-nsa-general-counsel-michael-ellis-to-active-service\/\" title=\"Kevin McCarthy Calls on Pentagon to Restore NSA General Counsel Michael Ellis to Active Service\">recent decision<\/a> by Mars to eliminate a potentially harmful food additive from Skittles. Additionally, he highlighted HHS&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kennedy-introduces-no-propaganda-act-to-defund-npr-and-pbs-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Kennedy introduces &#039;no propaganda act&#039; to defund NPR and PBS - Washington Examiner\">recent funding cuts<\/a> to Moderna for its bird flu vaccine growth, citing ethical concerns regarding mRNA technology.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">MAHA movement needs to &lsquo;get our kids moving&rsquo;: Joe Concha<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2134775\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner&rsquo;s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/joe-concha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Concha<\/a> pitched his bid for future steps in the Make America Healthy Again movement, suggesting &ldquo;inactivity&rdquo; among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">children<\/a> must be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Concha, a senior writer for the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, commended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Health and Human Services<\/a> Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Robert Kennedy Jr.<\/a> and his work thus far in delivering on the Trump administration&rsquo;s agenda to improve the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-gives-cities-more-power-to-ban-homeless-camps-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Supreme Court gives cities more power to ban homeless camps - Washington Examiner\">nation&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s health, suggesting the secretary has already reacted quickly to &ldquo;protect our children.&rdquo; While discussing this on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Outnumbered<\/em> on Thursday, Concha spotlighted how one out of every five children in the United States is obese, suggesting &ldquo;inactivity and screen time&rdquo; are the main culprits.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3425918\/lawsuit-maryland-closed-primary-elections-unconstitutional\/\">Lawsuit alleges Maryland closed primary elections are unconstitutional<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3425792\/trump-tariffs-appear-destined-for-supreme-court-showdown\/\">Trump tariffs appear destined for Supreme Court showdown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3425729\/cherfilus-mccormick-house-rules-campaign-finance-laws-ethics-panel\/\">Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick may have violated House rules and campaign finance laws, Ethics panel says<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;So I coach not one, but two of my kids&rsquo; sports teams. My daughter plays soccer. She&rsquo;s into Girl Scouts. She&rsquo;s in flag football,&rdquo; Concha stated. &ldquo;My son&rsquo;s in baseball, football, golf, track, you name it. They are out of the house. Get our kids moving, and I&rsquo;m sure Bobby Kennedy Jr.&rsquo;s going to make that a priority as well &mdash; as far as get them off those screens and get them outside like we used to do back in the &rsquo;90s when we grew up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2957172&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=6fc8e59f09977fd05e7e95624fd3e8fd\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of the latest changes in the nation&rsquo;s food and health industry occurred this week when Mars, the company that produces Skittles, announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3424548\/mars-stops-color-additive-titanium-dioxide-skittles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">it would stop adding the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >color additive titanium dioxide<\/a> to the candy<\/a>. Earlier this month, the White House highlighted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WH-The-MAHA-Report-Assessment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">the additive could cause cellular and DNA damage<\/a> in its &ldquo;Make America Healthy Again&rdquo; report.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3422650\/cdc-covid-vaccine-schedule-pregnant-women-healthy-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">CDC NO LONGER TO RECOMMEND COVID-19 VACCINE FOR HEALTHY CHILDREN OR PREGNANT WOMEN&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In reacting to Mars&rsquo;s change, Concha joked that he &ldquo;should be dead by now,&rdquo; given the amount of Skittles he has eaten in his life.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the HHS announced that it would cut more than $750 million in funding for Moderna to develop an mRNA bird flu vaccine for humans, telling the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3425194\/hhs-pulls-moderna-grant-funding-bird-flu-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">it &ldquo;was not scientifically or ethically justifiable.&rdquo;<\/a> HS Communications Director Andrew Nixon also said that mRNA is &ldquo;under-tested&rdquo; and that taxpayer dollars would not be used to repeat the &ldquo;mistakes of the last administration.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2134775\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2134775\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAHA movement must focus on getting kids active: Joe Concha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2440547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kennedy-MAHA-exercise-scaled.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[56156,52093,54589,34669,56157],"class_list":["post-2440546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-get-kids-moving","tag-joe-concha","tag-maha-movement","tag-physical-activity","tag-youth-wellness"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kennedy-MAHA-exercise-scaled.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440550,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440546\/revisions\/2440550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2440547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}