childhood obesity

Yeah, some bullshit that I don't think he actually doing.

No, I think he's try- I think the plan, he wants to get rid of, uh, childhood obesity in, uh, American kids.

But li- like, the only reason some of these kids are obese is the situation that, that their family are in.

The situation their family in, don't have enough money, and will eat the most worst food ever, and they put on weight, and they don't do exercise.

So our guest today is Sarah Blankenship Thomas.

Fitness became Sarah's first love after dealing with childhood obesity and then teenage anorexia.

Her love for fitness quickly turned into over-exercising and under-eating as a young adult.

In her early 30s, after experiencing weight gain and fatigue from the eat less, move more approach, she set out on a mission to create a comprehensive wellness plan for herself to feel better and look just as good.

Thank you.

And as a reminder, see everyone on Tuesday at 8 to 9 a.m. for Pediatric Obesity and Weight Management Grand Rounds Lecture by Dr. Jessica Williams entitled Pediatric Obesity Medicine Treatment, New Science, Expanding Options and Practical Challenges.

Thank you, everyone.

When we talk about childhood obesity, the entire public conversation is about adipose tissue.

How much is there? Where is it? How do I get rid of it? But no one asks what's happening to the skeletal muscle underneath.

Adolescence is not a period when bone is maintained.

This is not an eating disorder episode.

I'm gonna recommend, again, I'm not your physician, but there's a National Alliance for Eating Disorders helpline, and I strongly would consider getting professional help.

This is a podcast on childhood obesity.

What happens when we go to the extremes, like with GLP-1s? We are seeing this all over Hollywood, but what is the impact of someone who is younger? Welcome or welcome back.

I'm Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, and today we're talking about kids.

And that doesn't mean that we should take this decision lightly either or that the medication should be handed out super casually to children.

Pediatric obesity treatment should be very deliberate.

It should involve the proper monitoring of growth and nutrition.

It should involve families.

It should involve clinicians who understand pediatric obesity.

And it should involve long-term follow-up because if we're going to use these medications earlier in life, we need to understand what decades of treatment means.

might actually mean for these kids.

We're coming to you live from London.

Still to come, we have a rare report from a specialist weight loss clinic in the East of England targeting childhood obesity.

For an adult, a healthy body mass index would be less than 25.

Many of the children who attend our clinic have body mass index ranging 30, 40, 50, sometimes well above that.

The BBC's Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson with that report.

I'm Paul Henley with News Hour live from the BBC.

Childhood obesity is a growing health problem across the world.

In England, the National Health Service has launched a network of specialist weight loss centers.

A major part of your life work has focused on treating children with obesity.

What makes childhood obesity different from obesity that develops later in adults?

So obviously, when I see a kid who's, let's say, eight years old, and they're already struggling with their weight, and maybe they have type 2 diabetes or have prediabetes.

I would see these eight-year-olds, and I would think to myself, there's no way that the environment caused this disease.

They're just too young.

They haven't been on the earth long enough for the external factors to have played an essential role.

So I had to start to think about the disease of childhood obesity differently, in part because if you're impacted by it at such a young age, then the sort of diet and exercise recommendations clearly don't work because they're not at play to begin with.

And then it turns out that over the years I've learned that obesity in children actually progresses faster, or at least the diseases associated with obesity in children progress faster than diseases associated with obesity do in adult onset or later in life, such as children progress from prediabetes to diabetes faster than adults.