"A new system proposed by Canadian and US obesity researchers may provide another weapon in the battle against obesity. University of Alberta obesity expert Dr. Arya Sharma, along with a researcher from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, has proposed a classification system to help doctors assess and treat overweight patients...Note that you have to see a doc for this new scheme.
The Edmonton Obesity Staging System, outlined in the current online issue of the International Journal of Obesity, has five stages of obesity, from stages 0-4. The first stage, stage 0, would fit patients with no symptoms of obesity-related health problems. The last stage, stage 4, would fit patients that have the most severe obesity-related health problems. The system is simple for doctors to use - they can easily classify their patients by doing simple tasks like taking their patients' medical history, doing a physical exam and taking routine tests like blood sugar and cholesterol levels. The system will also provide doctors with specific treatment approaches for each stage."
As with the other stupid attempts to medicalize the non-medical problem of overweight/obesity, all control/responsibility is removed from the fat person and into the money-grubbing hands of Big Sick Care.
No matter what silly approach sick care promotes, nothing, repeat nothing, will ever succeed except for fewer Calories in than out.
Despite all the machinations of the lying weight loss industry in its various manifestations.
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