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Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)For the first time ever, experts with the American Academy of Pediatrics are recommending proactive medical interventionagainst childhood obesity. The organization’s new guidelines will no longer ask doctors to simply observe or delay treatment in children with obesity, defined as a body mass index over 30. They instead now emphasize a range of options, such as dietary and lifestyle counseling for younger children as well as medications and/or surgery for children 12 and over.Past…

Novo Nordisk NVO 0.61% A/S flubbed the launch of its buzzy new weight-loss drug Wegovy, missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and squandering a head start before a rival could begin selling a competing product.Wegovy is among a new class of drugs that health regulators have approved to cut the weight of people who are obese, a goal long sought by doctors and patients. Their weight-dropping potential became a viral sensation on social media. Elon Musk…

Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)More and more Americans across the country are living with obesity, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. The number of states and territories with high obesity rates has more than doubled since 2018. There are also wide disparities in obesity prevalence among different groups of Americans.The latest data comes from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, an ongoing survey of Americans’ health-related and lifestyle habits. Based on the 2021…