2009 Diet Of The Year

Weight-loss surgery for kids: maybe as a last resort Los Angeles Times (blog)

06.05.10

For the 17% of American kids who are considered obese, prevention -- the strategy everyone agrees is the best way to tackle the nation's health woes -- is no longer an option. What, then, to do to prevent a wave of obesity-related diseases down the line?

A new review article published in the British journal the Lancet acknowledges that despite all the hand-wringing -- and the fact that the breathtaking rise in obesity among kids has begun to stabilize -- we seem to know less than ever about what works best to prevent or reverse obesity in kids. Current recommendations for how much kids should reduce their caloric intake "might be too conservative," given research done in 2006 , says a team lead by a researcher from the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Joan C. Han. The "sedentary lifestyles of children nowadays" have driven a need for new and better research on how much the "energy burned" end of the equation needs to change, Dr. Han's team wrote.

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