Are we really going to drug children not to be so fat?
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It's a shame that Big Food and Big Pharma have so much power over the decision-makers. It would be great if people looked back to see what changed from when obesity was not a problem to what happens now.
Factory foods do not make anyone healthy. |
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/weig...ml?guccounter=1 |
So... the answer to the question posed in this thread:
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Apparently the answer is yes. Quote:
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I feel really bad for those kids - a shot every single day for 13 months (how many of us hated getting even one shot every year as kids?). Plus they had nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Makes me wonder how much the gastro side effects had to do with them losing weight, as opposed to how much weight loss was due to the GLP-1 appetite suppression. Quote:
So it will very likely be a lifetime of taking drugs to keep the weight off, rather than actually changing their diet. Quote:
Need we even ask what they considered to be a healthy diet for these kids? I'm pretty sure we already know they were told to fill up on lots of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, while consuming as little fat as possible, and being allowed only pitiful amounts of protein. |
This horrifies me.
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The way corporate greed is killing the planet, I guess it doesn't matter.
Children today will see the world warm to the point where the crops fail, and may see the end of humanity itself. We know what we do, but the logarithmic growth of profits of the huge corporations will not cease. Some scientists predict that the tipping point is less than 30 years in the future. The point where the heat on the planet starts feeding the heat and even if we quit all greenhouse gasses, it will keep heating itself until it's too hot for human life, and it won't stop there. I'm glad I'm as old as I am, as I'm not predicted to live another 30 years. |
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ME, TOO !!!!!!!! I learned about DANDR before having children. My goal for them was real food, not chips, not popcorn. Eat when hungry. No need to finish your food. (Dog will happily clean your plate. 😁) No candy. No snack foods. Plenty of apples, cheese sticks, homemade meals and left over dinner for breakfast. Both my boys are "thin" by todays standards but their pediatrician is happy with their weight. Both are rippling in muscle. And pinch kess than half an inch. Both work physical jobs at this time. I expect my oldest to pursue a desk job but he loves the work around the farm. At university, other students thought he was studying Ag, when it was actually IT. IT requires desk time. What we feed our children matters. Homemade is EASY. Bake 8 chicken thighs. Heat up frozen veggies. Bake potatoes in thd microwave. Real food. I pester them about food choices out in the big bad world. Ya, they now have junk food, but I keep up the pressure and make meals to help facilitate healthy eating. Lots of meat and veg. Some pasta. No bread. Some rice. And no weight loss drugs. |
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The way the two choices are worded makes it sound like there really are only 2 choices: 1) Drug the kids thin OR 2) Make the kids feel guilty that they just keep gaining weight on what they're told to eat (low fat, high carb, minimal protein), because it just makes them more hungry and less energetic. Why not start by figuring out what it is about the kids current diet that has them so lacking in energy that they need to be encouraged to exercise 1 hour daily? If they're being chosen for a drug trial, surely they've looked into what the kids are eating on a regular basis. And at that age, what they're eating is almost entirely up to their parents and other adults in their lives, not the kids. It's not that difficult to test what their current diet is doing to their blood sugar and insulin levels over the course of several hours. A glucose tolerance test (or for that matter finger pricks every hour) can tell you a lot about how your body handles blood sugar - that could be the very issue that's causing them to feel hungry all the time (and if the GLP-1 is helping then, it undoubtedly has something to do with blood sugar - which goes back to what they're eating) They just need to acknowledge that switching from candy bars, cookies, and fries to whole grain bread, baked potatoes, and fruit won't make much difference at all - it all raises blood sugar, which can easily result in higher insulin levels, lethargy, and ravenous hunger. Alter their diets to cut way back on carbs (mostly limiting them to non-starchy vegetables and low sugar fruits), retain enough dietary fat (or perhaps even increase it if they've been on a strict low fat diet) and add in enough protein to reach a good satiation level, and they might just *magically* see both the exercise and weight issues resolved. It is admittedly difficult to make that switch - especially for a child who has no control over what food is being provided for them, and is used to eating lots of carbs, but I'm sure the biggest drawback to even trying this method is that it doesn't require drugs. |
Having raised two boys and see how fat some of their friends were.....
Kids grow and use lots of energy. Give good quality foods but not the extras like chips, soda and packaged or tale out meals. Cook meals. Meats, veg and potato or rice. Over time kids slim out. Anyone else see this happen?? That teenage growth spurt can fix the obesity of younger years without putting kids on a calorie deficit. |
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