Medical Guidelines Suggest Drugs and Surgeries for Obese Children, ‘Diet and Exercise is Not Going to Do it’
New guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends early and aggressive intervention for obese children, including medications and surgeries, among other weight-loss techniques.
The medical industry is encouraged by pharmaceutical companies to prescribe new medications to patients in an effort to treat conditions and find “band-aid solutions” rather than addressing root causes in lifestyle and diet. Now, the America Academy of Pediatrics has recommended using medications and surgeries to treat obesity in children, and taking a more invasive approach because old treatment plans were not solving the problem.
“In general, doctors should offer adolescents 12 and older who have obesity access to appropriate drugs and teens 13 and older with severe obesity referrals for weight-loss surgery, though situations may vary.”
CBS News
Early intervention is necessary when approaching child obesity — however medications and surgeries are not the correct solution. A parent’s responsibility is to ensure that a child knows that both self-control and discipline, in this case, a healthy diet and exercise, are uncomfortable in the moment but necessary to a healthy and happy life. That being said, American culture denounces responsibility and discipline — in other words, if it feels good in the moment, do it.
“I definitely think this is a realization that diet and exercise is not going to do it for a number of teens who are struggling with this — maybe the majority.”
Dr. Stephanie Byrne — CBS News
In our country’s endeavor to fulfill surface-level desires and gain instant gratification from the world around us, we have started hundreds of “movements” to normalize the unhealthy, the unwise, and the illogical. Individuals and groups aim to reduce stigma around lifestyle patterns that, until recently, could be publicly criticized for being wrong, unhealthy, or immoral. In this effort, the pharmaceutical industry has stood to gain a pretty penny from people’s lack of self-control and lack of desire to implement positive changes.
CBS reported that just one prescription given to obese children can cost up to $1,300 out of pocket, surgeries offered to obese patients can cost anywhere from $15,000 to $23,000. Fat acceptance and “body positivity” influencers are using TikTok and other advertising methods to teach children and adults to accept their fat body, and anyone who criticizes it or even recommends making a lifestyle change is “fatphobic.” Medications and surgeries are the new and improved treatment method because it is socially accepted by the left wing mob of ideologues who cannot be asked to put in effort or change in anyway, they are aways the victims in one way or another, which is why they don’t need to make any changes.
41.9 percent of Americans are classified as obese, 30-53 percent of new diabetes cases in the U.S. yearly are linked to obesity, and obesity is a significant contributor to many forms of cardiovascular disease, and cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death globally.
“Based on NHANES 2007-2010 survey data, 15.4 million Americans above 20 years of age have Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). In 2009, CHD accounted for 49 percent of deaths due to cardiovascular disease.”
Obesity Action
This country’s children do not need medications and surgical intervention, they need better diets, more sunlight, exercise, and encouragement to be healthy — rather than the constant flood of garbage being sold to them on TikTok about fatphobia and fat acceptance. Children do not need doctors to sell them shortcuts.
