Hugging and Chalking

This blog is about obesity and the inanity/insanity it spawns, the encroaching lawsuits and growing diet industry. Obesity is a matter of genes and personal responsibility. You can have an endocrine problem, or you can have a balance problem (too many calories and too little exercise). It’s not where you eat, but how much you eat; it’s not McDonald’s fault, or Mama’s fault, or Washington’s fault if your body is too fat or too thin. Rosabelle.

Saturday, April 30, 2005

I know it when I see it

Leo Treyzon says that in medical school he was taught to look for and identify Wegeners's granulomatosis, errlichiosis, and tetrology of Fallot, but he’s never come across them either in training or in his practice. Meanwhile, over a third of his patients are obese (not just overweight), but that wasn‘t included in his training. Although the government seems to recognize the seriousness of obesity, medical educators do not, he says in this article, “Assessment of obesity management in medical examination,” in Nutrition Journal (full text, free at PubMedCentral).

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