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...idea behind the language discussion in the recommendations, says Dr. Samantha Rosman, a fellow in pediatric emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center and a trustee of the AMA, was to make sure parents hear what their kids' doctors are telling them. "The stronger wording was a call to action," Rosman says. "This is a really important health problem that has the potential to be devastating to our society if we don't do something about...
Does dieting even work for kids? Many clinicians say no. "We actually find that children who diet gain more weight than their peers," says pediatrician Dr. Alison Field from Children's Hospital Boston, who has been following the weight-control behaviors of almost 17,000 kids. It's not just that kids who diet tend to gain back the weight later; it's that dieting brings up all sorts of unbidden psychological responses that sabotage the process. After all, self-deprivation is one thing; being told by someone else that you can't eat--even when you feel hungry...
...Dr. Beth Marcus, a family physician at Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, Calif., knows all about these difficulties. "I don't think there's any way in our culture to have kids feeling 100% good about themselves when you're telling them they need to lose weight," she admits...
...bracing for the more lasting legacy it leaves behind--a cohort of kids who are getting sick earlier or, at the very least, are a whole lot likelier to develop serious problems later. "We are seeing conditions that we as pediatricians are not used to seeing in children," says Dr. Seema Kumar of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "And we are seeing these a lot more...
...dying from any cause in their 70s than are adults who were of normal weight as youngsters. Early evidence also suggests that heavier children are even 35% more likely to develop cancer in their later years. "If you are a fat kid, you know you're in trouble," says Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatrician at the University of California, San Francisco, "and you know you need to do something about it now and not later...