By Richard Horgan Los Angeles (Knewz) — “Obesity Week,” the leading annual scientific conference on obesity, recently took place in San Diego. Among the many topics discussed at the gathering was a new drug called semaglutide. In concert with study findings published this month in the “New England Journal of Medicine,” a case was made that the drug for adults with obesity may also help adolescents lose weight and build healthier hearts. “Typically, we make lifestyle recommendations: eat more vegetables; don’t eat fried food; don’t drink soda,” explained Silva Arslanian, senior study author and…