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CBC
15-04-2025
- Health
- CBC
New guidelines to treat childhood obesity send mixed messages, says UPEI prof
Social Sharing An associate professor and registered dietitian at the University of Prince Edward Island is calling new Canadian guidelines to treat childhood obesity problematic. "You're saying, on one hand, we don't want to stigmatize heavy weight, but then on the other, you're pulling out pretty big guns to try and attack this," said Sarah Hewko. "As a child, you're going to be like, 'OK, which one is it? Is it something I should feel ashamed of and deserve to be treated differently for? Or is it not?'" The guidelines were co-developed by Obesity Canada and published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday. It's the first time the guidelines have been updated in nearly 20 years. "The main kind of takeaways are that we shouldn't be focusing necessarily on specifically weight," said Ian Patton, the director of advocacy and public engagement at Obesity Canada. "The important things are the health outcomes — you know, quality of life." Why this doctor says BMI shouldn't be used to diagnose obesity 3 months ago Duration 9:00 'Pretty extreme' The recommendation includes not just physical, psychological and nutritional interventions, but also medical ones — for example, considering prescribing Ozempic or Mounjaro for children at least 12 years old and surgeries like gastric bypass for those 13 and older. "It's not saying that every one that is, you know, living with obesity or every kid that has obesity should be put on a medication. That is absolutely not what the guidelines state," said Patton. "But for some people, they are a valuable tool that could be very effective and could be life-altering." Hewko said the guidelines send mixed messages. She is happy to see components talking about weight stigma, but including "recommendations that you can use surgery and Ozempic or Manjaro in kids is stigmatizing," she believes. "That's a pretty extreme thing. I do have some fear around that." Hewko also has concerns about how P.E.I.'s health-care system might struggle to use the guidelines to address issues, given the long waits for family doctors and the demand for more pediatricians. Still, Patton is optimistic that the new guidelines will make a difference. He grew up living with obesity and believes these latest recommendations could have helped. "Just having the knowledge of, you know, 'How we can go about this?' can really, really have a positive impact on families as a whole," he said. "I was really, really ill at one point and I needed some pretty significant help. And I didn't, you know, didn't need to get that far."
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
New guidelines to treat childhood obesity send mixed messages, says UPEI prof
An associate professor and registered dietitian at the University of Prince Edward Island is calling new Canadian guidelines to treat childhood obesity problematic. "You're saying, on one hand, we don't want to stigmatize heavy weight, but then on the other, you're pulling out pretty big guns to try and attack this," said Sarah Hewko. "As a child, you're going to be like, 'OK, which one is it? Is it something I should feel ashamed of and deserve to be treated differently for? Or is it not?'" The guidelines were co-developed by Obesity Canada and published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday. It's the first time the guidelines have been updated in nearly 20 years. "The main kind of takeaways are that we shouldn't be focusing necessarily on specifically weight," said Ian Patton, the director of advocacy and public engagement at Obesity Canada. "The important things are the health outcomes — you know, quality of life." 'Pretty extreme' The recommendation includes not just physical, psychological and nutritional interventions, but also medical ones — for example, considering prescribing Ozempic or Mounjaro for children at least 12 years old and surgeries like gastric bypass for those 13 and older. "It's not saying that every one that is, you know, living with obesity or every kid that has obesity should be put on a medication. That is absolutely not what the guidelines state," said Patton. "But for some people, they are a valuable tool that could be very effective and could be life-altering." 'I completely agree with the components of the guideline that talk about weight stigma,' says Sarah Hewko. (Sheehan Desjardins/CBC News) Hewko said the guidelines send mixed messages. She is happy to see components talking about weight stigma, but including "recommendations that you can use surgery and Ozempic or Manjaro in kids is stigmatizing," she believes. "That's a pretty extreme thing. I do have some fear around that." Hewko also has concerns about how P.E.I.'s health-care system might struggle to use the guidelines to address issues, given the long waits for family doctors and the demand for more pediatricians. 'I know that [my parents] struggled with what to do because there wasn't options, there wasn't knowledge. It wasn't something we talked about,' says Ian Patton. (Submitted by Ian Patton) Still, Patton is optimistic that the new guidelines will make a difference. He grew up living with obesity and believes these latest recommendations could have helped. "Just having the knowledge of, you know, 'How we can go about this?' can really, really have a positive impact on families as a whole," he said. "I was really, really ill at one point and I needed some pretty significant help. And I didn't, you know, didn't need to get that far." While more research is still needed, Patton hopes the introduction of guidelines can change how people understand and think about obesity.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Influencer Remi Bader reveals she got weight loss surgery after health concerns
Influencer Remi Bader is opening up about how her weight loss procedure led her into a "deep depression." The TikTok star appeared on Khloé Kardashian's podcast "Khloé in Wonder Land." In an interview posted Wednesday on X, Bader, 30, opened up about undergoing a bariatric surgery called SADI-S over a year ago due to her health issues and her struggle with opening up about the surgery due to privacy concerns. Bader explained that she gained "80 to 100 pounds" in 2023, and suffered from knee pain. At one point, she was bedridden for a month due to back pain. Bader said other weight loss methods didn't work for her, including trying Ozempic twice and Manjaro once. "I tried Ozempic before it was even a thing," she said. "My doctor was just like, 'Oh, you're pre-diabetic, you should try this.' I lost probably, like 10 pounds, but I was really sick and threw up a lot from it." She then began considering other methods. Though she was concerned with public perception, a doctor referred to her convinced her to have a single anastomosis duodenal-ileal bypass with sleeve gastrectomy, a newer procedure recommended for her situation that is supposed to be simpler than other weight loss surgeries such as gastric bypass. Bariatric surgeries drop sharply as people turn to Wegovy, Saxenda for weight loss Normally, the surgery is a brief recovery process, her doctor told her, but for Bader, it was the "worst thing of my life." "I couldn't leave the hospital. I couldn't swallow water. I was like, projectile vomiting," she said. "But then that went on for six weeks." Things got so bad that Bader went to stay with her parents, she said. She describes the recovery process as a dark time: "I got (in) a very scary, deep depression. I did not want to live anymore, I would literally just stare at the wall all day and be sick. It was just horrifying." She also battled with feelings of guilt. "I think at that time, I had a lot of regret. I was like, 'Oh my God, I've been this person that people looked up to online for this whole time,'" she added. "I was very open that I was struggling, but I was this person that was like, 'But be confident in whatever you look like.'" Now, she said she's in a much better mindset and is getting to a place where she loves herself internally and externally. The model emphasized that people with bigger body types could be healthy, and admitted that she was "so jealous" of her friends who were confident in their bodies. But, she said, "My journey was different." "I was in pain. I was struggling with health, and this is what I felt I needed to do," she said. Jelly Roll lost 110 pounds after 'battle' with food addiction after diet, working out SADI-S is a bariatric, or weight loss, surgery combining two weight loss procedures: a sleeve gastrectomy and a duodenal switch, according to the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. For the sleeve gastrectomy, a doctor removes nearly 80% of the stomach into a smaller, tube-shaped stomach. For the duodenal switch, the first part of the small intestine is divided just below the stomach, and a section of the intestine is rerouted and connected to the stomach. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Remi Bader says she got weight loss surgery SADI-S
USA Today
27-03-2025
- Health
- USA Today
Influencer Remi Bader reveals she got weight loss surgery after health concerns
Influencer Remi Bader reveals she got weight loss surgery after health concerns Show Caption Hide Caption Ozempic warning: Experts warn of side effects from weight loss drug Experts are warning of the possible side effects of popular diabetes medications such as Ozempic and Mounjaro when used for weight loss. Influencer Remi Bader is opening up about how her weight loss procedure led her into a "deep depression." The TikTok star appeared on Khloé Kardashian's podcast "Khloé in Wonder Land." In an interview posted Wednesday on X, Bader, 30, opened up about undergoing a bariatric surgery called SADI-S over a year ago due to her health issues and her struggle with opening up about the surgery due to privacy concerns. Bader explained that she gained "80 to 100 pounds" in 2023, and suffered from knee pain. At one point, she was bedridden for a month due to back pain. Bader said other weight loss methods didn't work for her, including trying Ozempic twice and Manjaro once. "I tried Ozempic before it was even a thing," she said. "My doctor was just like, 'Oh, you're pre-diabetic, you should try this.' I lost probably, like 10 pounds, but I was really sick and threw up a lot from it." She then began considering other methods. Though she was concerned with public perception, a doctor referred to her convinced her to have a single anastomosis duodenal-ileal bypass with sleeve gastrectomy, a newer procedure recommended for her situation that is supposed to be simpler than other weight loss surgeries such as gastric bypass. Bariatric surgeries drop sharply as people turn to Wegovy, Saxenda for weight loss Why Remi Bader calls weight loss surgery recovery 'worst thing of my life' Normally, the surgery is a brief recovery process, her doctor told her, but for Bader, it was the "worst thing of my life." "I couldn't leave the hospital. I couldn't swallow water. I was like, projectile vomiting," she said. "But then that went on for six weeks." Things got so bad that Bader went to stay with her parents, she said. She describes the recovery process as a dark time: "I got (in) a very scary, deep depression. I did not want to live anymore, I would literally just stare at the wall all day and be sick. It was just horrifying." She also battled with feelings of guilt. "I think at that time, I had a lot of regret. I was like, 'Oh my God, I've been this person that people looked up to online for this whole time,'" she added. "I was very open that I was struggling, but I was this person that was like, 'But be confident in whatever you look like.'" Now, she said she's in a much better mindset and is getting to a place where she loves herself internally and externally. The model emphasized that people with bigger body types could be healthy, and admitted that she was "so jealous" of her friends who were confident in their bodies. But, she said, "My journey was different." "I was in pain. I was struggling with health, and this is what I felt I needed to do," she said. Jelly Roll lost 110 pounds after 'battle' with food addiction after diet, working out What is SADI-S? SADI-S is a bariatric, or weight loss, surgery combining two weight loss procedures: a sleeve gastrectomy and a duodenal switch, according to the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. For the sleeve gastrectomy, a doctor removes nearly 80% of the stomach into a smaller, tube-shaped stomach. For the duodenal switch, the first part of the small intestine is divided just below the stomach, and a section of the intestine is rerouted and connected to the stomach.
Telegraph
24-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Crongton, review: a zippy new adaptation of Alex Wheatle's Crongton Knights series
Are the kids alright? Definitely not is the feeling gripping the nation after Stephen Graham's Netflix hit Adolescence, which is facing calls to be shown in schools thanks to its galvanising storyline about teenage masculinity in crisis. Still, not all TV shows about the lives of young boys are entirely intent on depicting modern adolescence as a dystopian nightmare, at least not all of the time, at any rate. Certainly, Crongton, BBC Three's zippy new 10-part adaptation of Alex Wheatle 's YA series Crongton Knights, set on a fictional housing estate and focusing on a frightened 13-year-old boy caught up in a gang revenge plot, feels determined to warm the heart rather than chill the marrow. Where Adolescence offers no easy answers in depicting the mind-warping horror story of online Incel culture, Crongton serves up street violence, parental neglect and the awful loneliness of being a misunderstood teenager in distractingly lovely, pin-balling video game colours and the odd floating heart emoji. And it's mostly brilliant. It's a tragedy Wheatle, an under-sung YA novelist, never got to see this TV version: he died last week from prostate cancer. Adapted by Archie Maddox, the show notionally devotes each episode to a different teenager at South Crongton Comprehensive, such as Saira, newly arrived from war-torn Syria and Venetia, the daughter of devout Catholic parents still mourning the loss of her cousin to gang violence a year previously, yet determined to flood Crongton with positive vibes. The overarching story, though, belongs to the diminutive Lemar 'Liccle Bit' Jackson, who lives with his mum, older sister, baby nephew and grandmother in a cramped and noisy flat and who falls under the orbit of local gang leader Manjaro after Manjaro showers him with cash and affection. Soon Liccle Bit is hiding weapons in his bedroom and lying to his friends; it's typical of this show's deft deflection of hardcore reality that when he finally confesses what's going on to his mate Mckay, Mckay initially wants nothing to do with Liccle Bit's 'pickle'. Crongton feels properly fresh in its kinetic splicing of grimy naturalism with animated cartoon sequences (an estate brawl is depicted in kapow! style graphics) and the frequent screen raid by video game visuals and mobile phone graphics – a sniper's crossfire; a cascade of confetti. Director Ethosheia Hylton cleverly parallels life as imagined or dreamt of for its young protagonists with its harsher or more prosaic reality – Liccle Bit imagines Manjaro as a horror film villain with diabolic red eyes; a fight with neighbouring gang North Crongton takes places with splurge guns a la Bugsy Malone; the somewhat saintly Venetia dances in the playground as though life is one long heartwarming TikTok video. Meanwhile, the comedy is deliciously oddball – Mckay at one point engages in a roast with an evil cackling dinner lady – and at times downright surreal; science-mad teenager Juniper likes to conduct experiments in the school toilets. It's an ingenious use of disorientation, yes, people on the estate might get 'deleted' with alarming frequency, but Crongton also inhabits a tenderised teenage world quivering with giddy, escapist possibility. Most of the actors are making their TV debut – the producers cast it following a social media open call out – and the approach reaps both rewards and the odd wobble. Yet Samson Agboola sparkles as the baby-faced Liccle Bit, whose features are endearingly wide open and trusting. It's a measure of his performance that he also suggests how quickly Liccle Bit could become another sort of child, had a different path been taken. Maddox struggles to sustain a coherent panorama of estate life across 10 episodes – chapters devoted to periods or to Saira's experiences in Syria feel a bit shoehorned in – while the gang culture backstory, which involves a murder in a nightclub, conversely feels squashed. But if Adolescence is essential watching for parents, then Crongton is a pretty good equivalent for their offspring: a fizzing drama about choice and responsibility in which the kids might – just might – turn out alright.
