We Know How to Reverse Childhood Disease Epidemic

The American Academy of Pediatrics recently updated its guidelines to recommend weight-loss drugs to kids as young as 12 and offer bariatric surgery to kids as young as 13.

These treatments are drastic, expensive, and for most kids, unnecessary. A proper diet is often enough to improve children's metabolic health and help their bodies shed excess weight. In fact, a mounting body of nutritional science suggests that kids can prevent or even reverse many common chronic diseases -- by cutting down on the vast quantity of sugars and starches we've come to think is normal in the human diet.