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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Doctor - "Just so you know eating an entire bucket of KFC extra crispy per meal is not a good idea if you want to lose weight."
Patient - "Oh really, I had no idea, why didn't someone tell me sooner!"
Blaming doctors for people being fat is like blaming doctors for not telling you its bad to stick a fork in your eye. Diet is a basic life style choice and it should be learned long before a doctor sees you. While a true 'balanced' diet might be hard to figure out, it shouldn't require a M.D. to tell you that donuts for breakfast, big macs for lunch, and fried chicken with extra beer is going to make you get fat.
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I agree that it's not the doctor's fault for people being too fat. All I'm saying is that if a doctor advises a patient to lose weight, they should give them all the information available on how to lose the weight and get healthy. What would be so hard about giving a patient a diet and exercise plan to follow? Obesity is a form of sickness. If I went to a doctor for dealing with migranes, I would expect them to do more than just say "You have to get rid of those migranes". I would want them to help me to try to figure out what is causing them, and then prescribe some plan to cure them. If they couldn't figure it out, refer me to a specialist. Why can't they put the same effort in for curing obesity? It's much more common and more deadly.
Proper diet is not as easy as knowing that donuts and eating 12 pieces of chicken at KFC are not good dietary choices, that's obvious. But where does one learn what a good diet is? If your parents fed you a steady diet of pizza, soda, pancakes, and Big Macs throughout your childhood, that may become a normal dietary habit into adulthood. It's up to somebody to teach about proper diet. Do public schools teach this? Not during my schooling years, and I'm guessing public ed hasn't changed much. The food in the cafeterias certainly weren't geared toward weight management. Since obesity is a heath issue, doctors should do everything they can to help since they are the first line of attack in health care.