'Fat-shaming' is bad and exercising is racist. No wonder childhood obesity is soaring
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The American Academy of Pediatrics released new guidelines for treating childhood obesity for the first time in 15 years.
Nicole Saphier, M.D., is an Assistant Professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, Fox News Medical Contributor and bestselling author of "Make America Healthy Again" and "Panic Attack: Playing Politics with Science in the Fight Against COVID-19." Follow her on Twitter @NBSaphierMD and Instragram @nicolesaphier_md.
In 2017-2019, the CDC reported about 20 percent of kids were obese, defined as a body mass index (BMI) at or above the 95th percentile of the CDC sex-specific BMI-for-age growth charts.
Further, kids gained weight at an increased rate during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those who were already overweight. Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates have tripled in the U.S., and today, one of three children is overweight or obese.
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