Posted on 10/27/2019 6:15:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Even some severely obese preteens should be considered for weight loss surgery, according to new recommendations.
The guidance issued Sunday by the American Academy of Pediatrics is based on a review of medical evidence, including several studies showing that surgery in teens can result in marked weight loss lasting at least several years, with few complications. In many cases, related health problems including diabetes and high blood pressure vanished after surgery.
While most of those studies involved teens, one included children younger than 12 and found no ill effects on growth, the policy says.
“Safe and effective is the message here,” said Dr. Sarah Armstrong, a Duke University pediatrics professor and the policy’s lead author.
Armstrong said children who have not gone through puberty may not be mature enough to understand the life-changing implications of surgery but that age alone shouldn’t rule it out. She doesn’t do surgery but works at a center that offers it; the youngest patient was 14.
It’s not a quick fix, she said. “It’s a lifelong decision with implications every single day for the rest of your life.” …
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Good point...
They are to busy trying to determine what sex they are to worry about their weight.
Weight loss CAN last "SEVERAL YEARS"... changing eating habits is NOT AN OPTION????
I work with a 19 year old that is thinner than rail. He said and others confirm, he use to be obese before puberty.
There has always been a small percentage of fat kids due to thyroid and/or laziness issue.
Most of today’s fat kids are due to something we take for granted. Most fast food restaurants serve mostly very high calorie/carb processed foods, then there are the processed quick microwave foods available in the frozen food isle, then of course the way kids play by staying home to fiddle with computer type games and many neighborhoods are no longer safe for kids to play in without a lot of security around.
If the last 2.4 million years of human existence were viewed as a 24 hour clock we:
Have eaten meat for the full 24 hours.
Have eaten wheat for the last 6 minutes.
Have eaten processed food for the last 4 seconds. Notice the change in the last 60 or so years?
White refined flour is a processed food and found in just about every bread-type product these days.
Yup. When puberty hit all bets are off. Some kids change drastically.
Or they can simply stop stuffing their faces with copious amounts of sugar and refined carbs found in the junk food they consume. Combine that with participation in actual activities that require them to put down their phones & x-boxes, and they would not need to even think about a surgical option to combat their obesity, because they would not be obese.
How about keeping the kids active in school, restore recess time and ensure Phys. Ed. is a part of the curricula.
In all areas of life, a lack of willpower, self control and a sense of personal responsibility creates problems.
Very revealing statement: “Armstrong said children who have not gone through puberty may not be mature enough to understand the life-changing implications of surgery but that age alone shouldn’t rule it out.”
This is what they think about everything they are doing to kids - from mutilating sex-change experiments, drumming up hysteria about “climate change”, dumping traditional education and indoctrinating them with Rat talking points, etc.
Are kids starving to death or fat as Hell? Which narrative is it?
American Academy of Pediatrics is a radical, left wing organization that encourages pediatricians to push for leftist agenda nonsense, often using coercion to advance this agenda, such as demanding that parents eliminate guns from their home.
The conservative alternative, the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), encourages pediatricians to care for the health of children.
As such, *any* pronouncement by the AAP should be looked at cynically, as it is likely based on some bizarre leftism.
Or...how about parents cook REAL food regularly...not pkg crap
Get them off the damn sugar and high carbs.
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