Our Big FAT Pediatric Failure
New guidance: Use drugs, surgery early for obesity in kids
By Kim Rossi Your pediatrician is being told by her union (the AAP) that she should put your overweight 12 year old on weight loss drugs, and schedule bariatric surgery for your obese teenager. This is the same AAP that gets its funding from Coca Cola. The same AAP that has presided over the sickest generation in history. The same AAP that injected hundreds of micrograms of mercury into infants and toddlers without a second thought, hell, without a FIRST thought. The same AAP that watched autism soar from 1 in 10,000 to can't swing a dead cat. They will drug and cut your child rather demand the changes needed for real health. This is an insanity even the most pharma obedient American should view with shock and horror. It's a complete dereliction of duty by the physicians and frankly, by parents as well. Obesity doesn't happen overnight. It happens with the first Gatorade at age 2 because the color is fun and she just wants a sip. It happens with a McHappy Meal loaded with sugar. It happens because we LET it happen. Worse? Almost three quarters of pediatricians are WOMEN - white women responsible for children's health. In a medical field that had once been overwhelmingly dominated by men, pediatrics is fast developing into what will be a female dominated medical practice. (Source, Career Trend) Have they no shame? Or are they just the laziest sons of bitches to ever malpractice? Is Pediatrics the med school version of "rocks for jocks" - what we used to call geology class as the science requirement in liberal arts programs. the kids suffering the highest obesity rates are Black and Hispanic. So what's really going on looks dangerously racist, putting ChOC on weight loss drugs and operating on them. Then expecting their FAMILIES, under whose care they became obese, to then adhere to the rigorous post bariatric eating habits needed to succeed. On what planet is anything of this realistic?
We'd laugh out loud if this weren't so predictable and absurd. Not to mention dangerous. Take a peek at Mayo Clinic's primer on weight loss drugs. Frightening side effects. But danger seems to be the AAP's stock in trade. While their patients suffer from failure to thrive, they themselves bloom on fear, dismissal, disregard. They pledge a blind allegiance and alliance to the pharmaceutical industry. And now, they are funneling kids to surgeons. Trans surgery has whet the appetite for a new market - fat kids. Scalpels raised with surgical group profits. What positive attribute can you possibly assign to a medical specialty that has all but destroyed their patients' lives? In 2008, Mark Blaxill wrote an article, Support Your Pediatrician, Condemn their Union. They have not earned our respect or support. They have sold children so far down the river, they'll drown in the ocean of pharma.
Many AofAers know first hand how little pediatricians do to promote health. We learned the hard way. But this latest announcement should open the eyes of every parent or expectant parent. Should. But will it? Fat chance.
New guidance: Use drugs, surgery early for obesity in kids
Children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively, including with medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those as young as 13, according to new guidelines released Monday.
The longstanding practice of “watchful waiting,” or delaying treatment to see whether children and teens outgrow or overcome obesity on their own only worsens the problem that affects more than 14.4 million young people in the U.S. Left untreated, obesity can lead to lifelong health problems, including high blood pressure, diabetes and depression.
“Waiting doesn’t work,” said Dr. Ihuoma Eneli, co-author of the first guidance on childhood obesity in 15 years from the American Academy of Pediatrics. “What we see is a continuation of weight gain and the likelihood that they’ll have (obesity) in adulthood.”
For the first time, the group’s guidance sets ages at which kids and teens should be offered medical treatments such as drugs and surgery — in addition to intensive diet, exercise and other behavior and lifestyle interventions, said Eneli, director of the Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
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.
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