(NewsNation) — Health advocates emboldened by the "Make America Healthy Again" movement are waging a war on processed foods, which have been linked to obesity, type two diabetes, cognitive decline and heart disease.

Dr. Joel "Gator" Walsh, a pediatrician and author, told NewsNation that a lot of those conditions are becoming increasingly common and manifesting earlier in life.

"I think that the most obvious example would be adult-onset diabetes, type 2 diabetes," Warsh said. "It's literally called adult-onset — it wasn't something you really ever saw in kids, even 40 or 50 years ago, and now we're seeing it all the time in kids."

Since the 1970s, consumer advocates have pushed to ban the marketing of sugary, ultra-processed foods to kids. Michelle Obama's 2010 "Let's Move!" campaign and

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