Dietary change is much preferable to surgery. Cut carbs.
Human anatomy hasn’t changed over the last 100 years.
Surgery is treating the symptom, not the cause.
We should be asking what has changed over the last 100 years that is causing kids to be fat.
Just teach them to eat properly. Teach the parents, because good lifelong habits start with them.
Fat kids were much more rare when I was younger. Let them eat all they want and sit around all day and they get fat. Surgery isn’t the answer, and won’t even be a temporary fix if behavior isn’t corrected. If behavior is corrected, surgery wouldn’t be needed.
And therefore, children should be allowed to make this decision? Or someone should be allowed to make it for the child without his consent?
Are children competent to make “a lifelong decision with implications every single day for the rest of your life," or not? If they are, what decisions are they NOT competent to make?
I guess they’ve never seen a fat kid have a growth spurt. Idiots.
Of course the other option is to simply get them off carbs, but that doesn’t help the ‘medical community’ or the ‘animal rights community’ or the ‘global warming community’.
I’ve seen 12 year old kids so fat the blubber keeps their eyes closed. Its astounding.
“Moderation, Lean Protein, Fresh Vegetables”
They are to busy trying to determine what sex they are to worry about their weight.
Weight loss CAN last "SEVERAL YEARS"... changing eating habits is NOT AN OPTION????
There has always been a small percentage of fat kids due to thyroid and/or laziness issue.
Most of today’s fat kids are due to something we take for granted. Most fast food restaurants serve mostly very high calorie/carb processed foods, then there are the processed quick microwave foods available in the frozen food isle, then of course the way kids play by staying home to fiddle with computer type games and many neighborhoods are no longer safe for kids to play in without a lot of security around.
If the last 2.4 million years of human existence were viewed as a 24 hour clock we:
Have eaten meat for the full 24 hours.
Have eaten wheat for the last 6 minutes.
Have eaten processed food for the last 4 seconds. Notice the change in the last 60 or so years?
White refined flour is a processed food and found in just about every bread-type product these days.
Or they can simply stop stuffing their faces with copious amounts of sugar and refined carbs found in the junk food they consume. Combine that with participation in actual activities that require them to put down their phones & x-boxes, and they would not need to even think about a surgical option to combat their obesity, because they would not be obese.
How about keeping the kids active in school, restore recess time and ensure Phys. Ed. is a part of the curricula.
Very revealing statement: “Armstrong said children who have not gone through puberty may not be mature enough to understand the life-changing implications of surgery but that age alone shouldn’t rule it out.”
This is what they think about everything they are doing to kids - from mutilating sex-change experiments, drumming up hysteria about “climate change”, dumping traditional education and indoctrinating them with Rat talking points, etc.
Are kids starving to death or fat as Hell? Which narrative is it?
American Academy of Pediatrics is a radical, left wing organization that encourages pediatricians to push for leftist agenda nonsense, often using coercion to advance this agenda, such as demanding that parents eliminate guns from their home.
The conservative alternative, the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), encourages pediatricians to care for the health of children.
As such, *any* pronouncement by the AAP should be looked at cynically, as it is likely based on some bizarre leftism.
Get them off the damn sugar and high carbs.