Here's an opinion piece in a Swedish morning paper, highlighting the fact that many hospitals have chosen not to offer any help to obese children:
DN Opinion: "Hospital Closes the Door on Obese Children" (Google translated from Swedish).
Prof. Claude Marcus and others are right that it's terrible that hospitals fail children with serious medical problems. This is not acceptable. But the problem is even greater: The outcome in hospitals treating childhood obesity is woefully bad. Very few children are treated successfully.
In hospitals that do treat obese children, the treatment is usually based on the outdated idea "eat less, run more". They seriously advise parents to limit their child's food intake, dismissing the kids from the table still hungry. They're then advised to try to make the kids run outside, despite not having had enough to eat.
At the same time they ignore study after study showing that
children who eat their fill on a low-carb diet will lose more weight.
Because health care workers ignore inconvenient new knowledge, obese children and their parents are given advice that lead to worse outcomes and unnecessary suffering.Today's treatment for childhood obesity isn't just child abuse. It's family abuse.
Here's a suggestion that may improve the situation within the health care system: Let go of the old dogmas about low-fat products and the oversimplified advice on energy balance. When childhood obesity treatment works this poorly, it's time to wake up.
Here's what might work better: Give the dietary advice that's been proven best in scientific studies. Shouldn't this be obvious?
The dietary advice that works in practicality is no carbo no protein. Neither are needed as I have proven to myself over the last 17 years.
I am as slim as a normal human being of about 60 years ago.
I am as fit as anybody I know and can hike twice as far and faster than a 22 year old. The next morning I have no lactic acid working its painful way out of my system via my muscles.
I sleep 8 to 9 hours a night.
I haven't seen a 'doctor in 25 years and I now never will.
I do not get colds, sniffles or any other condition as it relates to the immunity.
I have no aches pains in my muscles or bones.
My Urine Ph is 7.2 to 7.5 which means I will never have Cancer and I am at the age where most of my age around me are dying of Cancer.
I stop now as the list is endless.