New guidelines for treating childhood
obesity include medications and surgery
for first time
NBC News,
by
Kaitlin Sullivan
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
1/9/2023 1:38:43 PM
For the first time in 15 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday released new guidelines for treating childhood obesity, emphasizing a need for early and intensive treatment.
The guidance comes as childhood obesity rates have continued to rise over the past decade and a half, increasing from 17% to 20%, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since the 1980s, obesity rates have tripled in children and quadrupled in adolescents. The pandemic made matters worse, said Dr. Joan Han, a professor and chief of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital, who
Reply 1 - Posted by:
AltaD 1/9/2023 1:47:27 PM (No. 1374403)
Nice timing with this posting, it's the perfect follow-up to "body positive" Lizzo in her bikini article.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 1/9/2023 1:55:38 PM (No. 1374410)
Yeah, that's the ticket! Instead of old fashioned ways to influence children's health and well-being, tell parents to take the kid to the doctor's office, where the doctor and his/her staff can charge the gubmint or some health insurer for an office visit, then make more money doing tests, then make more money doing surgery, then help their pals in Big Pharma to get some medications into the kids' bloodstream so that it destroys the kids' metabolism and sets up adult diseases like diabetes and heart disease, so that the medical establishment can make more money by treating all the resulting diseases in adulthood. How about ending the fast food regimen, getting the kids out for playtime instead of sitting in a desk all day and in front of a screen all night? Or would that produce insufficient revenue for the medical establishment? And let's not forget that this same American Pediatrics Academy is all in on sex change drugs and surgery. God help us! We're surrounded by enemies pretending to be our benefactors.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
paral04 1/9/2023 2:05:52 PM (No. 1374429)
How about changing their kid's diets and making they go out and play rather than sit around on their phones or TV's? A 45 minute PE session in school wouldn't hurt. There they would learn to play a sports, conduct themselves in a sportsman like manner and take their minds off eating.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DW626 1/9/2023 2:14:28 PM (No. 1374439)
How about getting a little exercise in?
It sure is hard to burn off excess fat sitting in front of a computer/cellphone screen playing games all day?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 1/9/2023 2:45:17 PM (No. 1374451)
What ever happened to recess at school?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
skacmar 1/9/2023 3:09:49 PM (No. 1374471)
One treatment that I id not see in the article: removing the video game controller from the child's hands and making them go outside to play! This old fashioned remedy worked for thousands of years and works wonders today in communities where children are expected to do chores and not permitted to play on electronics all day. The article also does not mention the correlation between obese children and their obese parents. I rarely see obese children with fit parents but almost always see obese children with obese parents.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 1/9/2023 3:23:07 PM (No. 1374479)
How about no candy or fast foods, and lots of outside play?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 1/9/2023 5:08:55 PM (No. 1374519)
As a child, my older brother and I, ages six and eight, could ride our bicycles or walk a mile to school in Pittsfield Mass. Or ride the city bus to a movie downtown. Presently, my parents would be arrested for that “neglect”. You rarely see children riding bicycles in present days. Too busy using their cellphones and computer games. A shame.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
crunchycon 1/9/2023 5:37:19 PM (No. 1374534)
My brother and I were always told to “go out and get some sun on our little limbs” after coming home from school/snack/Garfield Goose on the TV. Plus 2 15-minute recess periods. Plus whatever time was spent after lunch on the playground. Plus PE at least 3x/week. Neither of us was or is athletic, but we always got plenty of fresh air, activity, and sunshine.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
janjan 1/9/2023 6:44:40 PM (No. 1374576)
When I was a child an obese kid was very unusual and mainly the result of thyroid or other health issues. Now it’s common. Typically, instead of attacking the root cause - diet and exercise- we give them drugs or surgery so no one has to be held accountable. Maybe they’ll throw in some breast removals and castrations at a discount. It’s for the children.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Kate318 1/9/2023 7:53:54 PM (No. 1374648)
Sure, let’s just poison them and carve them up. It’s the tried and true method of modern American medicine.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 1/9/2023 10:28:55 PM (No. 1374732)
I was born in 1942. I never saw a fat kid while growing up. Later, in high school, there were a couple of chunky kids but nothing like the grossly obese people we see today. At my grocery trip the other day I saw several who were 100 to 200 pounds overweight they seem to be the majority now. Obesity may just be the number one health problem in this country today but we have the woke contingent celebrating lard butts like Lizzy as being beautiful and normal.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Faithfully 1/9/2023 10:58:07 PM (No. 1374744)
Keep your hands of other people's children.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Faithfully 1/9/2023 11:01:30 PM (No. 1374746)
off
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/10/2023 6:56:00 AM (No. 1374882)
Beware the medical-industrial complex.
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