考研阅读精选：让子女病态肥胖是否构成虐待？
『如今美国已高度重视儿童肥胖问题, 从第一夫人发起的“让我们运动”的儿童减重运动到全国新儿科手术方案等，如今又有研究者提出应利用法律手段制止儿童肥胖，不过研究者同时提出若想真正的长期解决儿童肥胖问题，政府也应该加入进来。』Should Morbid Childhood Obesity Be Considered Child Abuse?
让子女病态肥胖是否构成虐待？
July 8th 2011 | from Scientific American
Now that the battle against the bulge in the U.S. has reached the grade school level, plenty of efforts have begun to fight childhood obesity and its dangers. They range from educational efforts, such as First Lady Michelle Osama’s Let’s Move! campaign, to new pediatric surgical programs nationwide. Now two researchers float a legal approach: make severe obesity a crime.
Lindsey Murtagh of the Harvard School of Public Health and David S. Ludwig of the Children’s Hospital in Boston present their case in the July 13 issue of JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association. Their commentary, “State Intervention in Life-Threatening Childhood Obesity,” makes the point that kids with a body-mass index in the 99th percentile face serious health threats: Obesity of this magnitude can cause immediate and potentially irreversible consequences, most notably type 2 diabetes. This complication, reflecting years of progressive metabolic deterioration, carries a dire prognosis. In addition to hyperglycemia, youth with type 2 diabetes typically have severe insulin resistance, low diet quality, sedentary lifestyle, and poor adherence to medical treatment.
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