Doctors should intervene to help children with obesity, health task force draft says, but it doesn't recommend weight loss surgery or meds
Nearly 20% of all children in the US have what’s considered to be a high body mass index, the measure that practitioners use to determine whether a person has obesity. New draft guidelines released Tuesday by the US Preventive Services Task Force say that doctors should step in to help these children better manage their weight so they can be healthy.
Source: cnn.com
