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Ozempic for youth? Childhood obesity care gets an overhaul in Canada - National | Globalnews.ca

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Canada has updated its national clinical guideline for childhood and adolescent obesity for the first time in nearly two decades .

The new approach recommends focusing on quality of life and mental health, and even includes medications like GLP-1s for kids 12 and up.

Obesity is a complex, chronic, progressive and highly stigmatized disease that increases the risk for more than 200 health conditions.

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