With childhood obesity out of control, there comes some nasty baggage. Adult health problems such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol are all now on the rise with kids. So, now children are taking obesity-related drugs to combat these problems. Indications are that hundreds of thousands ofchildren are on drugs to control blood pressure and sugar levels.
This opens the debate on whether kids should be on these drugs in the first place. Obviously it needs to be looked at on a per-patient basis, but the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that this can be seen as an opportunity for drug companies to up their bottom line.
Here comes the “back in my day” speech… It’s time to get kids to play outside more instead of web surfing. And while I’m certainly not an old fuddy-duddy aboutvideo games, it might be nice to see kids play more honest-to-goodness mud-slinging football than by joystick on the couch.
Are they still called joysticks?
Maybe I am an old fuddy-duddy.
See this related story:Kids and Cholesterol: New Recommendations Call for Statins
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With childhood obesity out of control, there comes some nasty baggage. Adult health problems such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol are all now on the rise with kids. So, now children are taking obesity-related drugs to combat these problems. Indications are that hundreds of thousands ofchildren are on drugs to control blood pressure and sugar levels.
This opens the debate on whether kids should be on these drugs in the first place. Obviously it needs to be looked at on a per-patient basis, but the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that this can be seen as an opportunity for drug companies to up their bottom line.
Here comes the “back in my day” speech… It’s time to get kids to play outside more instead of web surfing. And while I’m certainly not an old fuddy-duddy aboutvideo games, it might be nice to see kids play more honest-to-goodness mud-slinging football than by joystick on the couch.
Are they still called joysticks?
Maybe I am an old fuddy-duddy.
See this related story:Kids and Cholesterol: New Recommendations Call for Statins