By Megan Rauscher BOSTON (Reuters Health) Oct 21 –
What to do about the growing epidemic of obesity among US children was a focus of many featured presentations here Sunday at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference. In a press briefing, Dr. Robert Murray, of Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, emphasized that prevention, not treatment, is the key. “The problem is we are a very crisis-oriented society.
Medicine is built this way,” he said. “We wait for high cholesterol to develop, and then we treat it. We wait for diabetes to develop, and then we develop a drug to treat it. Setting up a treatment model for obese kids won’t work,” he said. “The new numbers show that 1 in 3 kids are at risk for becoming overweight and 1 in 6 is overweight, so we are losing ground at a very rapid rate.”
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