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I often find myself giving doctors a bad rap when it comes to weight loss care and obesity treatment. I use my own experience and in the back o f my mind I start thinking “Well on all the other fronts he seems like a good doctor.” Then I run across something like this report included in this video and I am reminded that obesity is a problem on many fronts. One of which is fair treatment of the individual.
Imagine if you will walking into your doctor and telling them you have a symptom that may be extremely important if you where normal weight and they would run all kinds of tests to find out what was going on. The same symptoms on an obese person might get, oh that is just a symptom of your weight, loose some weight and lets see if it continues.
Take a look at the video clip …
Obesity doesn’t pay at the doctor’s office
Now we all know that not all doctors are the same. I don’t want to start another prejudice in this country we have enough as is. What I will say over and over again is if your doctor won’t talk honestly with you about your weight, find one that will. Do not go years with the idea it is all your fault and all you have to do is work harder and eat less. Also be wary when they go to the other extreme and tell you that you have no self control so the only answer is surgery or pills.
Find a doctor that will discuss your options fully and look at you like a regular person with a medical condition, not some one that they don’t want to take proper care of because they judge you as someone that doesn’t want to take care of yourself.
I want to thank the folks at Obesity Thunder Bay for their emails bringing this type of information to my attention. The more you know the better you can take care of yourself.
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Diabetes is one of the symptoms of obesity and is often the motivation for weight loss. Keeping up to date on the link of weight loss and improvement or control of diabetes is vitally important as more and more ties are made to the rise in diabetes corresponding to the rise of obesity in this country and many others.
Diabetic Information
The Advantages of Using Glipized
Author : Brian JonesGlipizide is the name of a medicine prescribes for persons who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes
Bone Health Can Help Prevent Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
Author : Byron J. RichardsA unique strain of mouse was bred to have no insulin receptors on its bone-building osteoblasts, although it had insulin receptors every place else The mouse became fat As it aged it grew even fatter and its blood sugar levels shot up and it developed severe insulin resistance
Poor Response to Exercise in Young Type 2 Diabetics
Author : Byron J. RichardsType 2 diabetes is a difficult health problem because multiple aspects of calorie utilization simply don't work properly A study with young adults (ages 18 - 25) shows the cellular problem is worse than thought
Diabetics Can Experience a Positive Life Change
Author : Marifer VergaraPeople who are diagnosed with diabetes may sometimes feel that their lives as they knew them are permanently changed, and not in a positive way The idea of weighing, measuring, exchanging, adding, eliminating, and basically overhauling their diets and the way they eat can seem overwhelming
How Insulin Production Affects Obesity Your Mood And Everything
Author : Phillip TuckerUnless you have had a specific reason to learn about it, insulin is quite possibly a mystery to you You know it directly affects the lives of diabetics, and can go up and down depending on your blood sugar levels, but perhaps you don't know much more than that
Top Warning Signs of Diabetes
Author : Tehmina MazherDiabetes often goes undiagnosed because most of its signs are not very harmful Most of the signs of type 1 and 2 diabetes are the same
Five Factors In Managing Diabetes Naturally
Author : Janet DavisDiabetes is one of the most common chronic illnesses, affecting millions of people worldwide It is a condition in which the body either does not produce enough insulin (Type 1), or does not properly process the insulin it is making (Type 2)
Causes of Diabetes Are Within Your Control
Author : Bob ShermanWhat is Diabetes Diabetes involves the lack of capacity to manage the amount of glucose in the blood
Understanding Diabetes and Recognizing the Symptoms
Author : John BradstreetDiabetes is a major health concern in this country Seven percent of our population currently has diabetes and it is estimated that another 41 million people have pre diabetes
Diabetes Treatment Type 2 How to Manage it Without Drugs
Author : Ariyo AkinlosotuType 2 diabetes is the most common type of diabetes, and over 80% of diabetics suffer from it Types 2 is usually found in adults but its increasingly common nowadays in many adolescents due to an excess of food, a sedentary lifestyle, coupled with no exerciseFeed aggragation powered by Syndicate Press (version 0.9.9).
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The flash video comes from a report published by the New England Journal of Medicine. It indicates that our social contact influences our tendency to obesity. In an attempt for science to understand why we are seeing such a rapid rate of increase in the obesity rates this is yet another way to look at the data. The animation comes from over 32 years of data done by the “Framingham Heart Survey”.
I put it up here to continue with questions on how we are dealing with obesity in America. I want to introduce various ways that science and medicine are taking a look at the problem. In hope that it will provoke individual thought and questions. Having just come out of the holidays do you think that family and friends influence what and how much you eat? Is who you hang out with explain that belly that is hanging out of you? What do you think? How should the powers that run stuff be looking at this issue?
I know the local branch of a well know financial institution just offered their obese employees free weight loss surgery. Is this the direction of health care in America? Step right up and get your free surgery while we ignore the food industry and other factors effecting America’s diet. Or do we work at the level of one on one answers and start breaking the “chains of obesity” linking each of us to the epidemic?
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