Few overweight people trim down after heart attack

You have to admire their commitment to food and irresponsible behavior.

"Overweight people lose virtually no weight after suffering a heart attack, according to the first study to evaluate factors associated with post-heart attack weight changes. 'On average less than a half of a percent change in body weight occurred, and that's really small,' Dr. John A. Spertus of the Mid America Heart Institute of Saint Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, one of the study's authors, told Reuters Health."

Now to blame everybody except the fat, cardiac patient.

"'...doctors and office staff need to fill the role' of encouraging patients to lose weight and quit smoking. When certified cardiac rehabilitation programs are available, he added, they're often underused. 'We aren't doing as well as we need to be doing.'"

It is not anyone else's fault, fool.

Thinking like this will never solve the problem.

Here is a solution.

Make fat patients pay for their treatment, both ongoing and prior, out of pocket if they do not lose weight.

Then watch the pounds come off.