Antipsychotics Can Make Kids Fat

American Voices

Antipsychotics Can Make Kids Fat

December 17, 2009 | ISSUE 45•51

A study published in The Journal Of The American Medical Association found that children who take medication for severe psychiatric problems often experience weight gain. What do you think?

Yes, I'm sure that if those children had just been left to their own devices, they would have taken very good care of their physical fitness."

Simon Mande
Florist
Was the weight gain proportional to how crazy the child was?"

Matthew Arnheiter
Unemployed
I may sleep with a dead bolt on my bedroom door and a .22 under my pillow, but at least my crazy boy's no tub of butter."

Sara Hill
Roll Builder

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