New guidance: Use drugs, surgery early for obesity in kids
“Children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively, including with medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those as young as 13, according to new guidelines released Monday.”
“The longstanding practice of "watchful waiting," or delaying treatment to see whether children and teens outgrow or overcome obesity on their own only worsens the problem…”
“"This is not different than you have asthma and now we have an inhaler for you," Hassink said.”
“watchful waiting”? Heck how about watchful waiting while your exercising and staying away from food. I’m sure the drug companies and hospitals are going to love these new policies. How about teaching the children good character and to overcome their eating addictions? Maybe might this be more helpful.
I originally went straight to the American Academy of Pediatrics to read about this firsthand. I will post the Academy link in a comment to this article. This site is so long winded and bigoted it is unbelievable. It is a too long article that uses technical terms and Woke terminology to the point where a common person can’t make it through reading it all. I leave it to you to judge.
New guidance: Use drugs, surgery early for obesity in kids
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https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/physical-fitness
The Federal Government Takes on Physical Fitness | JFK Library
In the years just after World War II, concerns about the fitness of US citizens, especially the young, attracted national attention. Several trends and developments in the country lay at the root of this anxiety. The nation's economy had changed dramatically since the beginning of the century, and with it changed the nature of work and recreation. Mechanization had taken many farmers out of the fields and allowed the ones who remained to do...
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2022-060640/190443/Clinical-Practice-Guideline-for-the-Evaluation-and?autologincheck=redirected
Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With...
The current and long-term health of 14.4 million children and adolescents is affected by obesity,1,2 making it one of the most common pediatric chronic diseases.3–5 Long stigmatized as a reversible consequence of personal choices, obesity has complex genetic, physiologic, socioeconomic, and environmental contributors. As the environment has become increasingly obesogenic, access to evidence-based treatment has become even more crucial.A...
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