Originally posted by Thunder heart woman
Originally posted by shiman
reply to post by DevolutionEvolvd
I totally agree with you. The doctors should be saying "watch what you eat. Eat a full and well rounded diet avoiding junk foods" instead of "eat less food, don't eat fats, eat less calories blah blah". And of course exercise is a given.
I was reading something the other day about how in the late 80's through the 90's, it was taught in medical school to stop approaching or scolding patients about their weights, because it could create tension between doctor and patient, and, create emotional distress further causing possible eating disorders. My dad remembers when he was growing up how you could not go to the doctor overweight without the doctor saying "hey, you're fat. you need to drop that weight".
It seems in the past couple of years that this mentality of not bringing up weight issues is starting to fade away. And I do think it's time. Doctors, of all people should tell their obese patients that something must be done and continue to encourage the means to change. But it's the approach, the doctor must work on, when dealing with their patients. I think that a doctor to not say anything at all is irresponsible. I know that most fat acceptance groups would disagree with my line of thinking.
Problem is only smart doctors will tell you that healthy eating and excersize will help you. Lots of docs will give you pills that do god knows what.
Yes, being fat is a problem, but when you're so drugged up that you can't tell the difference, then it doesn't help anybody.
No worries. As they say, whatever you believe, you'll be able to prove with enough research. You're picking
apart my posts where I've generalized statements or used less-than-clear words to convey my point, and as I stated earlier, I'm not a doctor, nor am
I walking encyclopedia, so I WILL miss the target from time to time with what I'm trying to say, and the details a critic might be looking for. I
feel like you're arguing more with how I'm pointing, rather than what I'm pointing at, but it's all good! I don't want to sit and go back and
forth about "well, what I meant was.....", or "what I said, was....". It really serves no purpose, as you have your mind made and so do I. No
harm done. Just for quick clarification though...I HAVE cut out individual food groups to see how I would feel. Meat was one of the biggest ones
that I felt a noticeable difference with, almost instantly...within 24 hours. So again, I suppose it's all up to the person, and I know that how I
felt was how I wanted to feel for the rest of my life. If cutting out meat did that, then so be it. For the record, I like meat...I like bacon and a
good steak. So, I'm not a hard core vegetarian by any stretch of the imagination! And also for the record....I keep quitting it. Meaning, I keep
going back to it out of weakness, and I keep revisiting the crappy health issues every time I do. 
