During the lockdowns, there was a problem here and Sweden had done a lot of great studies

from their population.

This was one of them.

This is really a groundbreaking study here.

Study reveals rise and overweight obesity among preschool Swedish children during the

pandemic.

So they looked and they found that overweight and obesity increased among three and four

year olds in Sweden during that lockdown.

And remember, they had a soft lockdown.

So what the heck's happening here in the hard lockdown countries like Australia, US?

But why are we talking about that?

Well, the American Academy of Pediatrics just came out with new guidelines.

And it talks about this.

And this was a shocking headline.

People are still scratching their head around this, but we're going to break it down and

it's pretty easy to do the calculation on why this headline happened.

Consider drugs and surgery early.

Early for obesity and kids, new guidelines say, waiting doesn't work.

It goes into this article here.

It says, children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively,

including with medications.

You never want to see those in the same sentence for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those

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