Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

The Hidden Dangers in Your Home Making Your Kids Sick 🏠😷

25 Apr 2025 · 0 min

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Mona Sharma and a co-speaker examine why childhood asthma, allergies, ADHD, and obesity have skyrocketed. Every U.S. state now exceeds a 20% childhood obesity rate, compared to none in previous generations. Since genes can't change that fast, environmental factors in homes must be driving the shift.

Asthma's going up, allergies are going up, adhd, autoimmune conditions, cancer. Really, everything is going up.
Growing up, I don't remember a lot of kids that had eczema who were sick, were obese. I don't remember any diagnoses of ADD or adhd. And that's a good point about, you know, things that are being diagnosed now. But at the end of the day, I don't remember any behavioral changes or differences from when I was younger.
When we were born, no states had a 20% obesity rate. Now every state does. It's such a vast difference over a few decades. The fact that it's changed so quickly makes it very clear that it's not. Genetics can't change your genetics that fast. This is an environmental problem, and it's probably many different things.