Childhood Obesity Treatment Has Lifelong Health Benefits: It's Unethical And Unfair Not to Offer It

I posted on LinkedIn a few days ago about extremely severe obesity in children, arguing that the only way to prevent extremely severe obesity is to treat obesity before it gets to that level.

There are two major reasons to go that route:

1) It's the right thing to do for patients, and
2) It's cost-effective, especially if surgery is the chosen treatment option.

But a repost that I also sent out on that platform about a month ago about the ethics and fairness of not treating obesity in children may also be a compelling argument.

Is it ethical to withhold treatment that has scientifically been proven to work solely due to a patient's age, in this case younger than 18? If it's ethical, is it fair? What if we go in the other direction? If you are over 80 years of age you are no longer to get a GLP-1 agonist. Does that make sense?

Obesity stigma and bias continue to be a major problem, and until we solve that problem the epidemic will persist.

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