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SPEAKOUT: Obesity a serious issue not fit for silly bets - Rocky Mountain News- Topic: Childhood Obesity News

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Paul Campos’ Rocky Mountain News column of May 21, “A $10,000 ‘obesity’ challenge,”attacking a series of articles about obesity in The Washington Post, irresponsibly suggests that a growing concern about obesity as a significant health problem is exaggerated or, worse, “completely false. As chairman of the board of the Denver-based American Society of Bariatric Physicians, the leading professional organization providing physicians and other health professionals with education in the medical (nonsurgical) management of weight loss and related medical conditions, I can assure Campos and his readers that he is absolutely wrong. Members of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians work with people of all ages to improve health by reducing body fat using an individualized approach crafted for the patient that might include dietary modification, exercise prescription, psychological support and medication, if necessary. The authors of those articles are in good company with other Campos “alarmists” about an obesity epidemic, including physicians, scientists and other experts at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, UCLA/RAND, Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, the University of Colorado, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and national physician and health organizations including the American Medical Association, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Physicians and the American Diabetes Association. Read Childhood Obesity

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