The Make America Healthy Again program, or Maha is looking for ways to make people healthier.

The Kentucky General Assembly voted this year to create a maha task force that would offer ideas for next year's legislative session.

That committee met for the first time yesterday.

As our Jane LaFleur reports, at this point, all ideas are on the table.

Maha isn't just one thing, and lawmakers have their own ideas of what Kentucky should work on.

I'm very concerned as, the rises of autism that we've seen over the last several decades that the auditory processing disorders, ADHD.

Why have we seen those go up so much help our kids to make better choices in their food choices from the start, and empower the parents to be able to do that?

Whether that is making the food more affordable or as co-chair, like it said, you know, the availability of it.

Now, one thing I do love about physical fitness is it is a hedge against poor mental health.

We've seen that in research over and over again, but also serves as a hedge against, chronic disease, especially those tied to obesity and heart disease.

My concern, you know, being in I care for, for 30 years is the epidemic of, of, diabetes.

And, that's one of the leading causes of blindness.

First gathering of the Maha task force suggests food could be the focus.

This Republican senator and physician says anything happening outside of hospitals and clinics is fair game.

Our public health is is more personal.

It is what people are doing for themselves.

And when we start talking about health care outcomes now, we start in.

We start involving our hospitals and our other providers.

And I think it's really, really important.

And it is especially important for those of us in the health care space to have our public understand that.

And that is, you know, and I'm being generous here, about 70%, of the factors that affect our health care outcomes have nothing to do with our with our providers, our hospitals.

Kennedy's Ma Commission released a report last month detailing health risks to today's children.

The report says state lawmakers can act now by requiring nutrition transparency or banning food additives in public food programs.

Among other things, a co-chair of the Maha task force says lawmakers are already working with Kennedy's team on state legislation.

A representative, Hart, filed a bill around, that we actually need to remove fluoride from water rather than ingesting it.

There's other ways that you might, put fluoride to your teeth and provide your teeth some support.

I don't think you'll hear that in our committee, but you will hear that during the legislative interim, dental associations have repeatedly testified in Frankfort that fluoride prevents tooth decay, especially for underserved children, and that fluoride in drinking water is below potentially hazardous levels.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm Jim Leffler.