Treating Obesity
A study was published online Dec. 20 in the journal BMJ Open surveyed 500 primary-care doctors across the United States and asked them their views on the causes of obesity, their ability to treat obese patients, ways to improve obesity care and which health professionals are most qualified to care for obese patients. The results show that 44 percent of primary-care doctors say they’ve helped obese patients lose weight. Really? Talk about perception versus reality. Then why is 2/3 of this country overweight or obese? Also, it turns out that docs who completed medical school more recently reported feeling more successful helping obese patients lose weight. Ahhh, how cute. I love it when the youngens have such hope and sparkle in their eyes. A sprinkle of time and smattering of cynicism will beat that out of them.
Just saw a great new thing for kids. They wear a pedometer-like device on their wrists that monitors all movement, and it downloads to a program that they share with their friends online. The kids actually go out and exercise more if their friends are ahead of them in the game. Sure beats all the violent video games.
That’s actually intriguing.
You guys are going about weight loss all wrong. Instead of trying to reduce appetite, you should be working on reducing a persons sense of taste. It it doesn’t taste good, people won’t eat it. When you figure out how to do that, I want some.
“Ahhh, how cute. I love it when the younguns have such hope and sparkle in their eyes. A sprinkle of time and smattering of cynicism will beat that out of them”. (D.F. – Dec 2012)
Probably becaue these “younguns” haven’t had the pleasure of “Medical Substance and Device Representatives” bring them a full spread for the clinic staff — AND PROBABLY NEVER WILL — as long it is deemed that when rewarded with food and pens or other dumb pieces of dysfunctional plastic, we will feel compelled to purchase or prescribe.
Unfortunately, it seems like the only ones having a positive effect on obesity are Bariatric Surgeons via the Primary Care Providers who refer their patients when years of trying non-surgical methods (which did not include amphetamines) were to no avail.
Even then. Only the highly motivated, morbidly obese have benefits. The half-assed, half-enthused public aider who has it paid for is much more likely to have a failure.
I notice it takes 6 months to a year of education through the bariatric clinic before a procedure is done and I don’t blame them for that requirement.
I have a “special” business card that says “Eat Shit and Die” It’s exactly what this country is doing.
Kurt…
Spot on, sir!
Get ’em here:
http://www.cafepress.com/+eat-shit-and-die+business-cards
The logo is appropriately heart shaped
I also have a T-Shirt with the acclimation on it I wear as underwear and will pullup my outerwear to show to “appropriate” people.:-)
Then read the “Mealworms” post on this blog.