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Medicating Childhood Obesity - New York Times(Childhood Obesity News)
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The resulting flurry of controversy has centered — correctly — on the lack of proof that taking cholesterol-lowering drugs in youth actually prevents cardiovascular events later in life, as well as on the dearth of long-term safety data regarding such treatments in children. We need to look to our environment for the root cause of this sudden change in the shape of the human species, which in evolutionary terms is occurring in an instant. Limiting the idleness at home in front of screens in not enough; governments should partner with the gaming, TV, computer industry to find creative uses of new and existing technologies to stimulate families’ (not only children’s) physical activity. In Consults, an informal panel of doctors and medical scientists will take turns answering readers’ questions and writing about research in their fields �" how it’s likely to affect the care of patients and to expand our knowledge of human health and disease. Read Childhood Obesity
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