{"id":92009,"date":"2026-07-18T07:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92009"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:34:54","slug":"children-as-young-as-six-could-be-given-weight-loss-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/18\/children-as-young-as-six-could-be-given-weight-loss-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Children as young as six could be given weight-loss drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA28aqZ6.img?w=768&h=480&m=6\" alt=\"children\" width=\"688\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children as young as six could be given weight-loss drugs\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2026\/05\/12\/obesity-children-weight-loss-jabs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">to tackle obesity<\/a>, research has suggested. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/children-as-young-as-six-could-be-given-weight-loss-drugs\/ar-AA28at2v?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=6a5b28c7eb36452a9d2d0a426b24062a&ei=23\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Children as young as six could be given weight-loss drugs\u00a0to tackle obesity, research has suggested. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Obese-US-child.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92010,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92009\/revisions\/92010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}