{"id":822,"date":"2008-07-29T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/kids-have-to-go-on-weight-loss-drugs\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T14:00:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T19:00:03","slug":"kids-have-to-go-on-weight-loss-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/kids-have-to-go-on-weight-loss-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Have to Go on Weight Loss Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">With childhood obesity out of control, there comes some nasty baggage. Adult health problems such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol are all now on the rise with kids. So, now children are taking obesity-related drugs to combat these problems. Indications are that hundreds of thousands of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/26\/business\/26kidmed.html?_r=1&amp;ref=health&amp;oref=slogin\" title=\"childhood obesity\" target=\"_blank\">children are on drugs to control blood pressure and sugar levels<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/23358991.jpg\" alt=\"23358991.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This opens the debate on whether kids should be on these drugs in the first place. Obviously it needs to be looked at on a per-patient basis, but the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that this can be seen as an opportunity for drug companies to up their bottom line.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Here comes the &#8220;back in my day&#8221; speech&#8230; It&#8217;s time to get kids to play outside more instead of web surfing. And while I&#8217;m certainly not an old fuddy-duddy about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Wii_Fit\/\" title=\"video games\" target=\"_blank\">video games<\/a>, it might be nice to see kids play more honest-to-goodness mud-slinging football than by joystick on the couch.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Are they still called joysticks?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Maybe I am an old fuddy-duddy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>See this related story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/kids-and-cholesterol-new-recommendations-call-for-statins\/\" title=\"statins and children\" target=\"_blank\">Kids and Cholesterol: New Recommendations Call for Statins <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With childhood obesity out of control, there comes some nasty baggage. Adult health problems such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol are all now on the rise with kids. So, now children are taking obesity-related drugs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/kids-have-to-go-on-weight-loss-drugs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[31,29],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-health-news","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}