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Should Gps Stop Mincing Their Words With Obese Patients?
//GPs should stop worrying about causing offence and offer obese patients help to control their weight, experts have said.//
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“often there is more to someone being fat than just eating” (no there isn’t) “it is what is causing them to eat that needs to be sorted” (the cause is greed).
The vast majority of fat people are fat because they eat too much and exercise too little – it really is as simple as that.
Only a small minority of fat people are fat because of underlying medical issues, and, I would suggest, an even smaller amount of people because of perceived mental issues. The use of the word “often” is incorrect – seldom would have been a more appropriate adverb to use.
I’ve always been puzzled why some fat people feel they are in some way a victim, when their weight is by and large self-inflicted.
I suspect GPs don’t sugar coat the effects of smoking to the health of smokers, so I see no reason why telling a fat person they are overweight and the effect their weight has on their health can be anything but a good thing.
Nobody wants to be fat, so you never know it may spur them into taking a walk rather than taking a car, and once the weight starts to drop-off they won’t cry themselves to sleep every night.
“Believe me we ‘fatties’ can tell you everything about food – its an addiction [I don’t buy that] with drugs and booze you can go cold turkey but you can’t do that with food”.
Of course people can’t go without food….but they can go with less food, and they can exercise more.
The vast majority of fat people are fat because they eat too much and exercise too little – it really is as simple as that.
Only a small minority of fat people are fat because of underlying medical issues, and, I would suggest, an even smaller amount of people because of perceived mental issues. The use of the word “often” is incorrect – seldom would have been a more appropriate adverb to use.
I’ve always been puzzled why some fat people feel they are in some way a victim, when their weight is by and large self-inflicted.
I suspect GPs don’t sugar coat the effects of smoking to the health of smokers, so I see no reason why telling a fat person they are overweight and the effect their weight has on their health can be anything but a good thing.
Nobody wants to be fat, so you never know it may spur them into taking a walk rather than taking a car, and once the weight starts to drop-off they won’t cry themselves to sleep every night.
“Believe me we ‘fatties’ can tell you everything about food – its an addiction [I don’t buy that] with drugs and booze you can go cold turkey but you can’t do that with food”.
Of course people can’t go without food….but they can go with less food, and they can exercise more.
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As I said earlier, food can be an addiction. It's as bad as alcohol or cigarettes. I don't know about drugs as I've never got into them that much.
I couldn't stop myself stuffing food into my face. I'd take discarded food out of the bin and eat my housemates' things. It's horrendous. Thankfully, I've managed to get over it, but it is an addiction.
You can't tell someone just to not eat so much any more than you tell an alcoholic not to drink so much.
I couldn't stop myself stuffing food into my face. I'd take discarded food out of the bin and eat my housemates' things. It's horrendous. Thankfully, I've managed to get over it, but it is an addiction.
You can't tell someone just to not eat so much any more than you tell an alcoholic not to drink so much.
What makes people eat too much? Too much disposable income in many cases and an inability to pass the pie counter in Greggs (well they are nice).
Perhaps if we started getting real and there was an immediate consequence of your actions some may think twice, I am thinking along the lines of having to buy two seats on busses, trains places etc.
Perhaps if we started getting real and there was an immediate consequence of your actions some may think twice, I am thinking along the lines of having to buy two seats on busses, trains places etc.
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