Alphabet Villainy

     The, formerly, prestigious American Academy of Pediatrics has come out with a recommendation that powerful appetite suppression drugs and bariatric surgery should be used on obese 12 and 13 year-olds.  Drugging and mutilating children in these ways has received the imprimatur of one of the medical alphabet agency crowd.  I consider this no less than outright villainy.  First of all, there has been no long term, or short term for that matter, clinical study of the effects of the likes of Ozempic and Wegovy on the health of children.  These are powerful drugs with a parade of known serious side effects.  To think those effects would be no worse in children is the very worst sort of hubris. 

     The possible hideous side effects of the so called "puberty blocker" drugs are equally minimized, even approved, by the medical alphabet soup, but confining the discussion to the scourge of childhood obesity, subjecting children to surgical procedures such as "stomach stapling" that will permanently damage their digestive systems is simply beyond the pale.  Millions of adults have subjected themselves to similar mutilation, but adults are, presumably, capable of making an informed decision about the procedure.  Children are manifestly, and legally, not capable of such an informed decision.  However, they are susceptible to the importunings of medically corrupt doctors and ignorant parents.

     Modern medicine does not in general concern itself with true root causes.  It is all about treatment, with drugs and surgery, of conditions that in reality are almost all highly responsive to dietary interventions.  So, instead of informing clueless tetchy parents, largely overweight themselves, that they are responsible for their children's obesity by feeding them unbelievably crappy carb and sugar saturated diets, medicos take the easy, and profitable, way out by suggesting drugs and irreversible surgical interventions.  However convenient this is for the medical establishment, it is nothing less than blatant Hippocratic malfeasance.  

     We now live in a world of steadily declining sanity, with few countervailing influences.   So eat and drink up everyone, for we may die tomorrow, if not sooner.