( An article published said: US’s new gui...)New Obesity Guidelines Will Trouble US Children,Health

An article published said: US’s new guidelines on obesity finalized to cause harm to children, who are to be classified as obese and overweight//.

Due to financial agreements made between the drug manufacturers and the organizations promoting this proposal, an unfit guideline was being made to harm children by compelling to take obesity drugs, says another article.

The article outlines how an influential expert committee of the American Medical Association has ‘tentatively decided’ to reclassify obesity definitions. This will result in healthy children being categorized as medically overweight or obese, says the author, and mean that approximately a quarter of toddlers and two fifths of children aged 6-11 in America will be classed as having the disease.

The author of the articles is Ray Moynihan, who has previously written about drug companies promoting an increasing reliance on medications to the public. His report reveals that the U.S. proposals have been greeted with alarm by some senior public health academics who have written to the committee. Dr. Jenny O'Dea from the University of Sydney, for instance, warned that labelling children as overweight or obese can lead to stigmatization, eating problems and avoidance of exercise.

Mr. Moynihan points out that one of the prime movers behind the proposed changes being considered by the expert committee is Dr. William Dietz, a senior member of the International Obesity Task Force. In the second article Mr. Moynihan reveals how the high profile and highly influential Task Force, which has close ties to the World Health Organisation, was set up in the mid-1990s with the help of grants from three drug companies and continues to benefit from drug company sponsorship.

Now merged with another international obesity forum, the Task Force gets two thirds of its funding from pharmaceutical giants Roche and Abbott. Roche makes the anti-obesity drug Xenical (orlistat), and Abbot
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