The Washington Examiner’s Joe Concha pitched his bid for future steps in the Make America Healthy Again movement, suggesting “inactivity” among children must be addressed.

Concha, a senior writer for the Washington Examiner, commended Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. and his work thus far in delivering on the Trump administration’s agenda to improve the nation’s health, suggesting the secretary has already reacted quickly to “protect our children.” While discussing this on Fox News’s Outnumbered on Thursday, Concha spotlighted how one out of every five children in the United States is obese, suggesting “inactivity and screen time” are the main culprits. 

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“So I coach not one, but two of my kids’ sports teams. My daughter plays soccer. She’s into Girl Scouts. She’s in flag football,” Concha stated. “My son’s in baseball, football, golf, track, you name it. They are out of the house. Get our kids moving, and I’m sure Bobby Kennedy Jr.’s going to make that a priority as well — as far as get them off those screens and get them outside like we used to do back in the ’90s when we grew up.”

One of the latest changes in the nation’s food and health industry occurred this week when Mars, the company that produces Skittles, announced that it would stop adding the color additive titanium dioxide to the candy. Earlier this month, the White House highlighted that the additive could cause cellular and DNA damage in its “Make America Healthy Again” report.   

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In reacting to Mars’s change, Concha joked that he “should be dead by now,” given the amount of Skittles he has eaten in his life.

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 Washington Examiner that it “was not scientifically or ethically justifiable.” HS Communications Director Andrew Nixon also said that mRNA is “under-tested” and that taxpayer dollars would not be used to repeat the “mistakes of the last administration.”