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Doctors are told to get serious about obesity
Associated Press ^ | Nov 13, 2013 4:01 PM EST | Mike Stobbe

Posted on 11/13/2013 7:49:58 PM PST by Olog-hai

Next time you go for a checkup, don’t be surprised if your doctor gets on your case about your weight.

The medical profession has issued new guidelines for fighting the nation’s obesity epidemic, and they urge physicians to be a lot more aggressive about helping patients drop those extra pounds. …

The good news? By next year, most insurance companies are expected to cover counseling and other obesity treatments, following in the steps of the Medicare program, which began paying for one-on-one help last year. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: nannystate; obamacare; obesity; zerocare
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1 posted on 11/13/2013 7:49:59 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I agree. There is nothing worse than an obese doctor telling someone they need to watch their weight.


2 posted on 11/13/2013 7:51:50 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (An Administration of communists, incompetents, and the corrupt ...reminds one of FDR's brain trust.)
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To: Olog-hai

just don’t tell them they have Ghetto Bootie!

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/tennessee-woman-diagnosed-ghetto-booty-article-1.1398889

“He said ‘I know what the problem is. It’s ghetto booty,’” Ragland told WREG in Memphis. “I think I blacked out after he said ghetto booty. I think my mind was just stuck on the phrase because I couldn’t believe he said that.”

Sweo had diagnosed Ragland with lumbar lordosis, but decided “to take a technical conversation regarding your lower back and make it less technical,” he later wrote her after she had complained to the office manager.


3 posted on 11/13/2013 7:53:06 PM PST by digger48 (/)
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To: Olog-hai

Roux-en-Y anastomosis gastric bypass surgery is free with the Veteran’s dept. hospital system and I’m pondering it. Studies say my diabetes will be cured ON THE TABLE by the operation.


4 posted on 11/13/2013 7:54:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Many on the left see faith & family as oppressive, the right sees them as indispensable." Palin)
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To: digger48

LARDosis?


5 posted on 11/13/2013 7:58:10 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m immune to pontificating on the topic of obesity: I’m a smoker, you see, and there’s not a medical “professional” left who can look past that.


6 posted on 11/13/2013 8:00:22 PM PST by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: Olog-hai

Fat chance.


7 posted on 11/13/2013 8:04:43 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The idea would be great if doctors had a cure. Otherwise it is just a nag (and an excuse to charge more for medicare).

DK


8 posted on 11/13/2013 8:06:54 PM PST by Dark Knight
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To: Olog-hai

In my Dr’s office, 19 out of 20 women working there are seriously fat.


9 posted on 11/13/2013 8:09:17 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: Olog-hai

I do not think that harassing people about their weight will help. Harassing them makes them stress. Stress makes them eat.

I suspect that part of the obesity problem can be attributed to the obsession with controlling other people’s weight that the country seems to have. It’s a backlash.


10 posted on 11/13/2013 8:19:52 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Olog-hai; GeronL; All

If the Feds are concerned about obesity, then why not CANCEL THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM ?


11 posted on 11/13/2013 8:20:34 PM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Graewoulf

Since it is a side effect of a significant amount of drugs being prescribed...

DK


12 posted on 11/13/2013 8:27:01 PM PST by Dark Knight
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To: exDemMom

it does seem very odd to me that all these programs for alcoholism, and drug addiction and smoking addiction are all paid for....yet, if you’re carrying extra weight, the GUILT that is associated with that, even to the point that the elites categorize your fat as being okay...like fanny fat...or horrid...like belly fat...they’ve got nothing better to do than degrade people a little more...


13 posted on 11/13/2013 8:32:39 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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To: Olog-hai

Interesting. According to this article, under these new guidelines docs are told to send overweight or obese patients heading for cardiac problems to AT LEAST 14 face-to-face counseling sessions within a 6 month period.

The Obamacare site woes are just the tip of the iceberg. We are going to have to fight hard to see a doctor, who will then tell us how to eat and exercise and send us to counseling until we have the obtained the Obama approved BMI.


14 posted on 11/13/2013 8:36:17 PM PST by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: keats5

And after the “14 face-t0-face” time-wasting “counseling sessions,” you will be deemed too fat and too crazy to own a firearm.

I suspect that is where this is heading.


15 posted on 11/13/2013 8:58:43 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (The Second Amendment makes all the other amendments possible)
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To: Olog-hai

When does Moochelle start HER counseling sessions?


16 posted on 11/13/2013 8:59:32 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (The Second Amendment makes all the other amendments possible)
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To: GeronL

Lordosis. You are thinking of Lardassis


17 posted on 11/13/2013 9:56:03 PM PST by Kozak ("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms....."e)
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To: Olog-hai

Wouldn’t knocking out or at least cutting back on Food Stamps work better?


18 posted on 11/13/2013 10:02:30 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Millions are losing their healthcare thanks to ObamaScam! What a country!!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Not if your goal is cradle-to-grave socialism.


19 posted on 11/13/2013 10:04:22 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I remember Rush pointing out (correctly I believe) that the so-called obesity problem is a result of the push to make smokers quit.

Smokers can and do quit, but the desire for that ‘oral fixation’ never goes away. Can’t light up, so they eat.


20 posted on 11/13/2013 10:52:18 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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