Doctors Have a New Plan for Fat Kids
Update: 2023-02-28
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Description
Last month the American Academy of Pediatrics released a new set of guidelines for "childhood obesity." We have some comments.
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Links!
- The 2023 American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines
- The 2007 guidelines
- Pros and cons of bariatric surgery in adolescents
- Serious Issues With the American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines For Higher-Weight Children and Adolescents
- Semaglutide treatment for obesity in teenagers: a plain language summary of the STEP TEENS research study
- Patients’ views of long-term results of bariatric surgery for super-obesity: sustained effects, but continuing struggles
- Long-Term Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery
- Suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescents who underwent bariatric surgery
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this one really hurt, both as a former fat kid who was always raised to believe that my body was wrong and as a fat woman with scars from her bariatric surgery that didn't work and yes I am vitamin D deficient. thank you for being our voice and reminding people that we deserve dignity
So grateful to Aubrey and Michael for pushing back on this publication. it can be so lonely to maintain an alternative point of view, but you help so much with your in depth analysis
I'd like Michael and Aubrey to be my Drs