"Few obese adults receive a formal weight-management plan from their doctors, despite the proven health benefits of even modest weight loss, a new study suggests."Good news for modern fat people.
Since expert diet advice, including that from physicians, almost always results in diet failure and increased overweight/obesity, this is life-saving. See here,here, here, here and here.
Of course, the real reason that doctors do not offer weight loss advice has nothing to do with what is best for the patient.
It has everything to do with what is best for the doc.
Physicians make money when they see people. Docs are afraid to inform you that you are fat, because you will be offended and not come back to see them. If you do not come back, they cannot charge you. If they cannot charge you, then they cannot afford a luxury car. This is a bad thing for the medical professional.
As an aside, this is precisely the resistance I encountered years ago when trying to implement the Fit to Parent (tm) Program.
Still, the unwillingness of physicians to offer up weight loss advice is a plus for you.
Don't squander the opportunity.
Celebrate your good fortune and follow weight loss and fitness approaches that will work. See here, here, here, here and here.
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