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If You Can’t Convince Kids, Drug Them

When your kids won’t listen, modern doctors advise, drug them. They aren’t recommending a shot of NyQuil to keep them quiet. They want you to dose them up with something to get them moving. American kids are so overweight and have so many health related issues that the Pentagon can’t find enough healthy active kids to recruit. Modern doctors have the same one-size-fits-all answer for everyone, pharmaceuticals.

Drug the kids

If your kids won’t listen to  reason, drug them. The way things are and the way they “should” be are radically different. Modern doctors don’t see it that way. If something “ought to be” and it’s not, a medication must be prescribed to correct it. Black Americans learned that in 2020. They were “disproportionately affected by the coronavirus.

The virus was declared racist. More Black people got COVID than “should have.” This “was due to racism. An untainted nature would have been perfectly equitable.” Vaccine shots level the playing field once again. Childhood obesity is something else that doctors can fix with a prescription.

This week, the American Academy of Pediatrics advised that pills, shots and even surgery are indicated “to treat obesity in children as young as 13 years.

A child, they note, “should be able to treat his obesity the same way every other condition is treated today: with a drug.” The statistics are alarming. Everyone agrees that “childhood obesity is increasing, and it does not remain in childhood.

After they collected all the data backing the claim nearly 20 percent of all American kids are overweight, they went straight to recommending drug therapy.

In the past, most pediatricians would have recommended diet changes and exercise, and then wait for the child to reach adulthood before intervening in more serious ways.” Pfizer can’t wait that long.

A pharmaceutical lifestyle

Over the past several years “not only has the population of obese children grown, but it has also increased progressively by age cohort, suggesting that instead of kids growing out of childhood chub, adolescents are growing into it.

One company or another has a drug for that. “Escalating to surgery and pharmaceuticals to cure a lifestyle problem is still quite a jump.

Pill pushers have the obvious solution. By passing out a drug to cure obesity, “the change also serves to do away with the stigma around obesity, and even the very notion that excessive fat is a result of a certain type of lifestyle, rather than of causes outside of a person’s control.

Dr. Sandra Hassink, medical director for the AAP Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight and co-author of the recommendations explains the reasoning.

They “aim to reset the inaccurate view of obesity as ‘a personal problem, maybe a failure of the person’s diligence.” Being overweight isn’t your problem. You should be able to eat as much junk as you want and never gain an ounce. Thanks to modern chemistry, they can cook up a drug for that. They will sell it to insurance companies by the millions.

The commercials on TV will be all about how much better you’ll feel after losing all that weight but the 30 second spot will end up running 3 minutes. The extra time is to list out the potential side effects, “including death” as the lawyers require them to do, these days. Nobody pays any attention to that, the pharmaceutical companies know.

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