I saw no evidence that the risks outweigh the benefits in similar medically supervised weight loss. You are also understating the physiological benefits in my opinion. Anyway, the proper place for these debates is the scholarly literature not sensationalist articles in the press.
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I disagree with this stance. They are children. Not stats or lab rats. We don't have the right to put them at risk in the pursuit of knowledge.
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Again. You are extrapolating the risk from other contexts, while at the same time discounting benefits because the data are from adults. You can’t have it both ways at once. And either way, clinicians, patients, families and researchers all need more data in adolescents.
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We don't need more data!! 60 years of weight science research plus all of the ED literature = enough
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Can I ask, what patient population is the data based on regarding development of eating disorders? Example: Stice & Van Rysin 2018, based 496 adolescents girls, mean age 13, 2/3 white, no BMI data! Do you think you can therefore extrapolate re:ED to male adolescents with obesity?
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DE in intervention group, we'll have a definitive answer as to the risks of VLED in kids