The Concerning CDC- Recognized Family Healthy Weight Programs - Part 1
Weight and Healthcare · Ragen Chastain
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Show Notes
I wrote earlier about the disastrous American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines, written predominantly by people who were either taking money from the weight loss industry or personally/through their employers selling weight loss to kids.
I also did a deep dive on the serious issues with their recommendations of intensive behavioral interventions starting at 2 years old, diet drugs at 12, and weight loss surgeries at 13 as well as questionable claims around potential harm and eating disorders risk. Recently I also answered a reader question about how BMI works with kids.
Unfortunately the stakes have been raised significantly as their recommendations around weight-focused interventions starting when kids are still in diapers have been given a huge boost in the form of what are called “CDC-Recognized Family Healthy Weight Programs.”
I’ll be writing more about this, including analyzing specific curricula (some of which I’ve already obtained,) but I want to start with the basics.
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