Or… the shitty “food” industry could be radically reformed to stop monopolising the market with super-high sugar sources.
Lack of weight loss drugs is not the cause of teenage obesity, therefore the solution to teenage obesity is not the addition of drugs.
I like what you're saying, but that logic doesn't hold rocks.
Lack of chemo is not the cause of cancer, therefore the solution to cancer is not chemo? Chemo is definitely a solution to cancer, shitty as it is.
Treatment and even cures are not solutions. The solution to elevated cancer rates is to reduce carcinogen exposure.
That's a fair semantic point.
No, the solution to cancer is fixing our genes so that it's not possible. The same goes with obesity. Back when food was scarce, people who store fats better thrived and we evolved that way.
No syllogism is complete without Newt’s Knife.
Drugs. The American answer for everything. Unhappy, just take drugs. Tired, more drugs. Side effects from those drugs, we have a drug for that! Instead of fixing the underlying problem let’s keep putting bandaids on the problem until we look like the Michelin Man.
Hey! I like drugs!
so the options are teach your kids good habits or... give them drugs? And this is framed as the pediatrician's fault for not doing it?
Last time I remember a bunch of doctors were told a new drug was safe, we had that whole Oxy drug epidemic. I wouldn't expect doctors to just believe in these "studies" as much as they did before.
But yeah just teach diet/nutrition, exercise, and sleep. That helped solve some problems with me and I'm not on daily "maintenance" medication anymore.
Is no one admitting these are lifelong maintenance drugs, while also ignoring compliance issues with a young age bracket?
Also, studies show discontinuance of the medication results in at least 2/3 of the lost weight being regained. How will that look in these cases?
Quit rushing to stab junk in your leg , so you can keep cramming crap in your piehole.
What about the 19yo I saw today, with a BMI of 62, who's so far stuck in the cycle of self loathing, inactivity, depression, and pleasure seeking behavior that he can't see a way out let alone start creating himself a new reality? What if I have a drug that I'm pretty confident can help him lose 200lbs? Is it ethical for me to not prescribe it because "he should be able to do it on his own?" How many people do you know who have done that? Out of the hundreds or horribly obese patients I've seems, I have tow that have done it with diet and exercise. We have not evolved for a world where 20,000 calories costs $20 and is available 24/7.
I agree we need to be cautious with these drugs since long-term adverse effects aren't known but the long-term effects of obesity are well documented. I have backed off on pitching these drugs since I learned the companies making them have infiltrated the obesity research community in the US (because of course they did). They're still an amazing tool in the fight against an obesity epidemic which has many, many different contributing factors li ok e trauma, depression, mental health issues, upbringing, genetics, etc, etc. it's not as easy as "just don't eat so much."
Nobody "gets" teenagers. Duh!
You know what else fixes teenage obesity? Not over-eating and getting regular exercise.
Education for parents on how not to ruin their children's health, Education for children on the effects of diet in schools.
Also being both outside the US!
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