NBC’s Vicky Nguyen sat down with a 16-year-old girl to discuss her weight-loss journey with Wegovy, an FDA approved weight loss drug for kids as young as 12 years old. The American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends weight loss drugs as an option to treat obesity in children, which is at 22% in ages 12 to 19.
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Humans destroying any hope of a future by completely screwing up their youth🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
How about getting them off the couch, stopping their intake of all added sugar foods and heavy carbs, feeding them lean high protein meats and a variety of non-processed fruits and vegetables, getting them outside and exercising, rather than turning them into fat slobs with low life expectancies or perhaps even worse into former fat slobs who are imprinted with the idea of immediately wanting prescription medications?
Obesity KILLS….
There are huge toddlers, it's an epidemic of obese proportions. Stop the processed foods, do fruits and veggies, and get consistent exercise every day. No, sitting on your rump and moving your feet and those stomach electrode things do not work. Get up and dance to music, take up bike riding (safely), something! But don't sit, eat and repeat all day every day.
When you realize most doctors are just lazy af
Are you guys not considering the long term effects of this on children?
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY does not dictate your weight. It is your diet. This is the effect of having so much sugar, seed oils, and lack of nutrients in the food.