"Health panel urges interventions for children and teens with high BMI"

[Anonymous]

As the parent of an overweight teen, I was interested to read the article now leading the Wash Post website. What's confusing to me is my kid exercises every day (plays two sports and is currenlty at sports camp), understands how to read a food label (we tell her to pay attention to serving sizes) and I as the parent am knowledgeable about healthy eating (we have no soda or chips in our house, and we emphasize a well-rounded food group with lots of protein). Given all that, is medicine going to be the next recommended step? I am seriously considering it.

Health panel urges interventions for children and teens with high BMI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/18/children-obesity-weight-loss-recommendations/

[Anonymous]

You can have no soda or chips but still have junk food in the house. And some people, particularly kids, will choose that more than they should if they’re given an option.

[Anonymous]

If it were me, I would seriously consider it but would also be nervous about it.
FWIW, I am on Wegovy right now. It's working, but slowly. I do worry about any long term, unknown effects and sometimes wonder if, at my age, I should even bother.

But, I have been overweight my entire life and hate it. I am active and eat well, but too much. I don't seem to have a good radar for being full, never have.
Being a fat kid/teen was awful and has scarred me to this day. I can trace so much of my failures in life to the lack of self-esteem I have always had.

So, whenever I see posts about people worrying about their overweight kids, I really want to say to them to do everything you possibly can to help them lose weight.

[Anonymous]

OP, I promise you that if you do a deep dive into what she’s actually eating and accurately look at the calories in vs calories out, it’d be very apparent why she’s overweight.

It doesn’t have to be junk, a lot of it is portion size or mindlessly eating “healthy” snacks.

[Anonymous]

Before you jump to medication and if your child is interested, find a dietitian to evaluate her. They will want her to keep a food log and that will probably highlight the high caloric food choices or serving size.

[Anonymous]

everyone, its the seed oils in EVERYTHING, i really mean this.

you might be teaching portion control, no sodas/chips, watching calories in and calories out, but if you/your child is getting most their food highly processed or boxed or prepared veggies with low fat ranch, chances are it is saturated with canola/soy/palm/seed oils that is contributing to the weight gain. if you give your child goldfish, veggie crackers, nutra-grain bars, granola bars, pretzels, all of this has seed oil in it.

its the seed oils in literally everything that are making everyone sick.


https://health.clevelandclinic.org/seed-oils-are-they-actually-toxic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I promise you that if you do a deep dive into what she’s actually eating and accurately look at the calories in vs calories out, it’d be very apparent why she’s overweight.

It doesn’t have to be junk, a lot of it is portion size or mindlessly eating “healthy” snacks.

But the kid is a teen. You cannot micromanage and follow your teen around the kitchen to make sure they aren’t eating too large or portions, too many carbs, etc. It is impossible for a parent to control what and how much a teen is eating

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Before you jump to medication and if your child is interested, find a dietitian to evaluate her. They will want her to keep a food log and that will probably highlight the high caloric food choices or serving size.

We have actually seen a nutritionist and she did not want a young teen logging her food.

As for the PP and calories in/calories out - for sure she eats too much. She’s hungry all the time and can’t stop herself. Thus the jump to medication.

[Anonymous]

About time. Awesome that this happened and that Murthy put out the social media advisory all in the past 2 days! Kids will be so much better off.

[Anonymous]

Your child is binge eating outside of the home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I promise you that if you do a deep dive into what she’s actually eating and accurately look at the calories in vs calories out, it’d be very apparent why she’s overweight.

It doesn’t have to be junk, a lot of it is portion size or mindlessly eating “healthy” snacks.

Please stop with this old fashioned simplicity. Not all people who are overweight are so due to input. It's what the body does and does not do with the input. Not every human body can/does process food the same way.

[Anonymous]

There's a lot of junk food with kids sports. After game snacks, celebratory pizza, team dinners, cupcakes for someone's birthday, boxes of donuts for early games, its ridiculous. The kids eat 2x as many calories as they burn or more. And most sports and practices have a lot of standing around. They aren't sprinting for 90 minutes.

[Anonymous]

The article is behind paywall, but I don’t need to read any further than the subhead indicating that experts recommend weight loss drugs for kids. This is just Big Pharma doing its thing, nobody that actual cares about healthy teens. Really depressing how many drugs this generation will be on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Before you jump to medication and if your child is interested, find a dietitian to evaluate her. They will want her to keep a food log and that will probably highlight the high caloric food choices or serving size.

We have actually seen a nutritionist and she did not want a young teen logging her food.

As for the PP and calories in/calories out - for sure she eats too much. She’s hungry all the time and can’t stop herself. Thus the jump to medication.

Hmmm. Did you watch the gut biome documentary? They have identified a gut bacteria that regulates hunger signals to the brain, and some people don't have it.

[Anonymous]

I really hope they are not talking about ozempic. You know if you get off that it causes the weight to boomerang right back plus even more? It decreases lean muscle mass. Long term effects not fully elucidated. Doesn't it cost thousands of dollars a month? For the same amount of money you can hire a personal trainer to drag your butt out of bed in the morning for a jog, nutritionist, prepared meals, etc