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Should Gps Stop Mincing Their Words With Obese Patients?

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naomi24 | 09:28 Tue 25th Oct 2016 | News
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//GPs should stop worrying about causing offence and offer obese patients help to control their weight, experts have said.//

http://news.sky.com/story/gps-told-dont-mince-your-words-with-obese-patients-10631431

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Hey I never said you did but as per normal your jump in and open your mouth without putting your brain in gear!!
Psychology is clearly not TWR's strong point.
TWR you have the sensitivity of a house brick.

You clearly know nothing about what may be behind extreme weight gain and loss.
“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 way some on this thread are treating this topic and having a go at another AB member instead of responding to the issue in the article is making me feel physically ill - I'm glad I don't know some of you personally.
Quite right Lynne.There are too many posts that are off topic.
Deskdiary may I ask what your expertise on the obese is please?
Deskdiary, excellent post. Of course most people are obese because they eat too much and don't exercise enough.
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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.
Of course it's down to over eating, all over weight people know that, but what makes them over eat in the first place...
Greed.
There's more to it than just greed.
Something has to be done. Bigger boned people are costing the NHS a fortune and not doing themselves any favours either.

Being a person who if I see a pie I want a pie I do appreciate the difficulty but it never hurts to be told bluntly what needs to be done.



No, not greed. Addiction or something to take your mind off the other crap that's going on in your head.
Unfortunately furniture manufacturers have not kept up with obese weights.
I was going to add not all are greedy, but a lot of them are. Watch Secret Eaters on TV.
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Cloverjo, //You can't tell someone just to not eat so much any more than you tell an alcoholic not to drink so much.//

But people don’t have to eat food that makes them fat. If they feel compelled to eat it's within their power to choose eat something else. They decide what they eat.
This simplistic view of greed being the reason really ticks me off.
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.

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