Childhood Obesity Guidelines: Good Medicine or Too Extreme?

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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released new guidelines to address childhood obesity, affecting over 14 million children, including recommendations for weight loss medications and surgery. Those who consider the guidelines good medicine say that it is a step forward in recognizing obesity as a condition requiring a range of medical interventions. Those who think the guidelines are too extreme worry these approaches could impact mental health and body image, contributing to weight stigma and shame. Now we debate: Childhood Obesity Guidelines: Good Medicine or Too Extreme? Arguing "Good Medicine: Dr. Julia Nordgren, Pediatric Lipid Specialist at Palo Alto Medical Foundation; Attending Physician at the Stanford Weight Clinic Arguing "Too Extreme": Dr. Janna Gewirtz O'Brien, Pediatrician and Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota Medical School Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.8	Hi everybody. Around this time last year the American Academy of Pediatrics put out a
0:39.6	press release where the first sentence sounded an urgent and concerning kind of note,
0:45.0	it began by saying more than 14.4 million U.S. children and teens live with a common chronic disease.
0:52.8	That disease is obesity.
0:55.4	The Academy had just published a new set of guidelines
0:57.7	for treating kids who are overweight or obese
1:00.6	as defined by a measurement called the BMI, the body mass index.
1:05.0	While acknowledging that there's an interaction of all kinds of factors involved in kids putting on weight,
1:10.0	the guidelines also called for early intervention, including trying to change what and how kids eat early,
1:17.0	including the use of drugs, think Wegovia and Ozempick, for kids who have reached the age of 12, and bariatric surgery for kids who have reached the age of 12 and bariatric surgery for kids
1:24.5	who have reached the age of 13 if their weight is at the higher end of the BMI range.
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