Let me be the first to say: I’d love to have medical professionals in this country that you could trust. It’d be nice when dealing with matters of life and death!
Sadly though, we are seeing the medical institution crumble. While there are certainly still some individual doctors you can trust, one must be very careful and selective about how to find those doctors.
And no, this isn’t about the Covid vaccines. Rather, today’s egregious flop comes from the American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) and what they recommend concerning childhood obesity:
It’s worth noting that these geniuses at the AAP also were some of the biggest proponents of masking small children in schools and elsewhere, and even went so far as to adjust developmental milestones to cover for the fact that masked adults and children delayed the development of the children.
Fresh off that big win, the AAP now suggests that “children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively, including with medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those as young as 13, according to new guidelines released Monday” (emphasis mine).
Yep, you heard that right: drugs for 12 year-olds and hey, if you get to 13, it’s time to cut ya open, kiddo! If you need a meme to summarize, well, it’s this:
They go on with the tired tropes of wokeness and anti-body shaming lines that are as tiresome as they are easily debunkable. Consider several other quotes from the article:
The guidelines aim to reset the inaccurate view of obesity as "a personal problem, maybe a failure of the person's diligence," said Dr. Sandra Hassink, medical director for the AAP Institute for Healthy Childhood weight, and a co-author of the guidelines.
"This is not different than you have asthma and now we have an inhaler for you," Hassink said.
"Obesity is not a lifestyle problem. It is not a lifestyle disease," he said. "It predominately emerges from biological factors."
This is all insanity.
If obesity emerges from “biological factors,” then one should probably explain how biology has changed so much in the U.S. in the past 40 years that we’ve gone from ~10% of adults being obese to almost 40% of adults being obese:
And instead of looking at this at all critically and trying to devise ways to tease out what has caused this, the AAP has opted for the “well, damned if I know what is causing it, but drugs and surgery has gotta be the cure!”
Isn’t it such a nice coincidence that both drugs and surgery are exactly the things that make doctors a nice chunk of money?
Meanwhile, guess what doesn’t make doctors money?
giving kids healthy foods
getting kids to exercise
While this is just one example, it is emblematic of our medical industry as a whole. The focus is largely on the mitigation of symptoms rather than addressing underlying causes. This is the case because mitigation of symptoms is easier and more profitable. If all I have to do is prescribe you a drug, and that drug makes you a lifetime customer, maybe with some side effects that need mitigation of their own… well that makes me a very wealthy individual.
Perhaps I am just speaking for myself, but I would be willing to pay a large premium for a pediatrician willing to disavow the AAP for their continued nonsense. And for those at the AAP who are continuing to advocate against the children they took an oath to protect, this is all I’ve got for ya: