WHO issues obesity guidance Child and adolescent care

Oct 7

Tedros announces WHO's first guidelines addressing obesity among children and adolescents. He says prevalence rose from two to eight percent over the past 25 years and more than 170 million young people live with obesity. WHO strongly recommends structured dietary, behavioural and physical-activity changes; the guidelines also address medicines, bariatric surgery and weight-loss devices. He stresses health, functioning and well-being beyond weight loss and policies that make healthy diets and activity accessible and affordable. He does not detail age-specific medicine or surgery recommendations in this passage.

WHO releases its first guidelines addressing obesity among children and adolescents on October 7. Tedros announces strong recommendations for structured diet, behaviour and physical-activity changes, with guidance also addressing medicines, bariatric surgery and weight-loss devices. He stresses health, functioning and well-being beyond weight loss and wider access to healthy diets and activity. His briefing gives a two-to-eight-percent prevalence rise over 25 years and more than 170 million affected young people; those are his stated figures and timeframe. TV Brasil's October 7 live account adds family/lifestyle care, age-specific medicine/surgery restrictions and Latife Salomão Tyszler's specialist-supervision explanation. Its reporter places the 170-million 5–19 obesity figure 'in Brazil' and dates the prevalence rise from 1990, whereas the retrieved direct WHO statement says globally and over 25 years. The aired discrepancy is retained as source attribution, not endorsed or silently reconciled. The report's August SBP note concerns a separate publication.