Children With Obesity Must Be Treated in Time

The headline says it all about how clueless the system really is.

A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that behavioural treatment for inducing weight-loss can be very effective for severely obese children. However, the treatment to change dietary and exercise habits must be given in time, as it showed to have little effect on adolescents with the same problem.

"The results are indeed alarming for these severely obese adolescents, who run a serious risk of disease and social marginalisation," says Claude Marcus, professor of paediatrics at Karolinska Institutet. "New treatment methods must be developed and for some young people, surgery must even be considered an option."

It is not possible to treat an obese child "in time."

Once they are obese, the time is past.

The game is catch-up from thereon in.

And the nutritional child abuse is well along.