NYT Contributor Is Terrified Of New Childhood Obesity Guidelines For All The Wrong Reasons

An article written by a guest columnist op-ed The New York Times published a Thursday article about her fear at the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines regarding treating childhood obesity. She should be.

Comprehensive overhaul of recommendations The treatment of obesity in children includes the use of a combination bariatric surgery and pharmaceuticals. This operation should not be used in the worst cases.

Virginia Sole Smith is the author of “Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture,” The April issue is terrifying for many reasons. According to Sole-Smith, the medical community’s remaining stigmas against excessive weight are problematic.

“The guidelines are rooted in a premise that should have been rejected long ago: that weight loss is the best path to health and happiness,” Sole-Smith wrote. “The academy’s guidelines are the latest sally in the war on obesity that health care providers, public health officials and the general public have waged to shrink our bodies for over 40 years. The approach hasn’t worked; Americans, including kids, are not getting thinner.”

She’s right that the kids are not all right. But she’s dangerously wrong to claim Americans should raise the white flag on the issue. On the contrary, Americans should be alarmed that the population’s obesity epidemic has swollen to such epic proportions that 1 in 5 Children are clinically obese. Americans should not be surprised that even the “healthy” Their government has established diet standards recommendsThey are still getting sicker and fatter from their food, as well as their neighbors. 88 percent Many adults suffer from metabolic dysfunction.

Even worse, Americans should be terrified that the health care industry’s answer to childhood obesity is to drug the kids with a magic medication and offer high-risk surgery, making them lifelong medical cash cows before they’re even 18. After all, big food and Big Pharma are way more interested in treating a nation that’s chronically fat, sick, and depressed with Band-Aid fixes than offering real solutions to the nation’s health crises — everyone knows solutions and cures don’t generate the same profits as a lifetime of compliance with expensive medication regimens.

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“Significant weight shifts in children can signal an underlying health condition like diabetes or an eating disorder, or food insecurity,” Sole Smith wrote that these problems can all be alleviated by proper nutrition. She then made a scapegoat of genetics. “Some kids are also just genetically predisposed to be bigger,” She also added paratheses and linked to academic Literature behind a paywall

Genetics can’t explain the contemporary obesity epidemic that’s strangling the country, however. His 2021 book “Metabolical,” Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neuroendocrinologist and professor at the University of California San Francisco who has published six books on health and nutrition, explained how genetics alone can’t be blamed for the nation’s runaway obesity epidemic.

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