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How Experts Created a Peanut Allergy Epidemic

The Take (by Jon Miltimore) • 356 implied HN points • 17 Oct 24
🏥 Health Politics Public Health Nutrition Allergies Medical Guidelines
  1. Experts once recommended avoiding peanuts during pregnancy and for young children. This led to a big increase in peanut allergies.
  2. Initially, there was no strong evidence for the peanut avoidance advice, which caused more harm than good.
  3. Now, it's suggested that introducing peanuts early can actually help prevent allergies, showing that previous guidelines were misguided.

A New Cohort of Transgender Kids

Persuasion • 3223 implied HN points • 27 Sep 23
🏥 Health Politics Medical Guidelines
  1. Care for transgender youth needs to be re-evaluated due to changes in the types of cases being seen.
  2. There is a need for more research on the emerging cohort of transgender kids and their care.
  3. The impact of past treatment protocols on transgender youth needs to be critically reviewed.

Special Edition: Dangerous New American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines for Higher-Weight Children

Weight and Healthcare • 858 implied HN points • 12 Jan 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Body Weight Medical Guidelines Conflicts of Interest Children's Health
  1. The American Academy of Pediatrics released guidelines recommending weight-loss strategies for higher-weight children, including pharmaceuticals and surgeries from a young age.
  2. There are concerns about conflicts of interest among the guideline authors, with several having financial relationships with companies that develop weight-loss products benefiting from these recommendations.
  3. The guidelines' promotion of weight loss for children has raised questions about biases, especially since disclosures of conflicts of interest were limited and did not cover authors' ties to the 'higher-weight as lifelong chronic illness' model.

Testing The Claim That Pediatric Weight Management Interventions Decrease Eating Disorders

Weight and Healthcare • 499 implied HN points • 21 Jan 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Eating Disorders Weight management Research Findings Medical Guidelines
  1. The new American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines make dangerous claims about eating disorders in relation to pediatric weight management interventions, raising concerns about misdiagnosis and harmful treatment recommendations.
  2. The guidelines suggest that structured weight management programs can reduce eating disorder symptoms, but fail to address serious risks associated with weight cycling, dieting, and other harmful practices that could lead to eating disorders.
  3. Research citations provided in the guidelines do not strongly support the claims made, and there are concerns raised about conflicts of interest, incomplete data analysis, and lack of consideration for the long-term impacts of weight management interventions on children's mental and physical health.

New Guidelines for Weight Loss Surgery?

Weight and Healthcare • 379 implied HN points • 23 Nov 22
🏥 Health & Wellness Medical Guidelines Obesity Metabolic health Risks
  1. New guidelines for weight loss surgery have been released by organizations representing those who profit from these surgeries. These guidelines aim to expand the market for weight loss surgeries by lowering BMI thresholds and targeting younger patients.
  2. The guidelines rely on questionable ideas such as pathologizing higher-weight bodies and setting low expectations for weight loss surgery outcomes.
  3. There is a lack of long-term data supporting these new guidelines, raising concerns about the risks and efficacy of weight loss surgeries, especially for children and adolescents.
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