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Is Intensive Counseling For 6-Year-Olds Really the Solution to “Childhood Obesity”?
Conversations around weight are tricky enough to tackle and process as an adult. But guidelines out of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) are encouraging that children as young as age 6 get looped into the discussion. More specifically, the panel is building upon previous recommendations given in 2017, which stated that starting at age 6 kids should be screened for "obesity," defined as an age- and sex-specific body mass index in the 95th percentile or greater, based on year 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] growth charts. The most recent USPSTF recommendation suggest that kids flagged for "obesity" should receive at least 26 hours of intensive counseling.

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