I’ve lost track of how many people have told me their eating disorder started with something their pediatrician said, including my younger sister.
As a pediatrician, a psychiatrist, and a child and adolescent psychiatrist in training; a person whose sister and friends have been diagnosed with these deadly illnesses; and as someone in recovery from an eating disorder myself, many things scare me about the new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Obesity Guidelines.
The sparse discussion of eating disorders is at the top of that list. For anyone who hasn’t read them, these guidelines recommend weight loss pharmacotherapy to children as young as 12 and metabolic bariatric surgery to adolescents as young as 13.
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