Your Doctor Won’t Tell You You’re Fat
Two-thirds of American’s are overweight. What’s even worse is that the person who is probably in the best position to tell you when you’re overweight and need to drop a couple of pounds for your health, won’t say a word.
Many physicians screen their patients for obesity, but a 2005 study by the CDC found that only 40% of obese people were told by their doctors that they need to lose the excess weight.
“Physicians are reluctant to bring up weight because it’s such a loaded issue,” Dr William Dietz, director of the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity at the CDC, told the LA Times.
Because doctors have been trained in the science of medicine and not the psychology of patients, many simply want to avoid the often emotional topic. And because they can’t prescribe anything to their patients and are not qualified dietitians or nutritionists, they often feel there’s little they can actually do about their patients’ weight-loss.
But if physicians are serious about the welfare of their patients, they need to engage with them on all the issues affecting their health. Especially taking into account that a 2007 study by the National Consumers League found that most adults consider themselves less severely overweight than they actually are.
Celeb Diet Doc…
Here’s the deal… Physicians are not not taught nutrition and frankly do not have the training to help with weight loss. So if the physician is going to bring up the issue they sure as better have a well laid out position on how to lose weight. Just saying you need to lose weight is just going to upset the patient.. because they have heard this their entire life.
Now there are medications that will promote weight weight loss however this will not solve the problem. You see this is just band-aid medicine. Instead of treating the root cause of many diseases, hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, patients are giving meds when the real cure is found in the produce aisle.
The reason for the obesity crisis in American is dead simple. Too many processed foods. The cure is sitting in front of us but many Americans would rather eat a Krispy Kreme.
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