In this latest article by CBC, Canada has officially unveiled new childhood obesity guidelines for the first time since 2007.

Released in April of 2025, these new guidelines – created collaboratively by both doctors and obesity researchers –  notate details and guidelines related to nutrition, exercise, and, in specific circumstances, medication and surgery-based treatments. Not only that, but these guidelines also include language recommendations to ensure that weight-based stigma and verbiage is not used within the confines of daily vernacular. 

In the words of Sandra Elia, the chair of Obesity Matters, “These guidelines obviously are amazing and great and overdue and speak to the fact that obesity is a real medical condition.”

Obesity Matters is once again proud to observe that research and studies are continuing to highlight the importance of obesity as not merely a condition, but a disease.

To read more about these childhood obesity guidelines, read the full CBC article today.