Published Feb 28, 2023
Doctors Have a New Plan for Fat Kids
Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon dissect the American Academy of Pediatrics' new guidelines for childhood obesity, challenging their emphasis on aggressive treatments like weight loss drugs and surgery, and highlighting the ethical concerns, systemic biases, and weight stigma fundamentally ignored by these recommendations.
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