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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many of you PPs are insane. Obesity is a problem. I have three cousins who died young due to obesity related diseases. I was overweight as a child and I HATED it. Every minute of it. I wish my parents would’ve helped me with exercise and eating habits, but they were obese, too.

OP, you are right to worry. Obesity is terrible and yet [b]totally preventable[/b]. I wish you luck [/quote]

If it's so preventable why are 40% of Americans obese?[/quote]

Poor choices. Obesity is not rocket science. We sit around all day and eat bad food with high calories and low nutrition [/quote]

No one treating an obese population thinks this. Your comment is a prime example of Dunning-Kruger. [/quote]

this is just not true. Not true at all. 
Obesity is not some mysterious disease. It's a pretty clear cause and effect. are some people more prone? Yes. But we know what the base issues are and how to get out of it. 
People like you making excuses for obesity and trying to frame it as some random disease like lupus are fooling yourselves. And, frankly, you're a danger to society. You're why we have so many obese people. It is not ok to be obese. [/quote]

Again, no one in the field says this. Only ignorant people outside of it. [/quote]

Let me guess. You're in the field and read that in Vogue somewhere, right?
Almost everyone that I know in medicine says otherwise, and they live with me. So nice try.[/quote]

Do they always opine outside their specialties? [/quote]

HA! Because the anonymous rantings of a DCUM lunatic is so much more reliable. Get off WebMD and feed your kids something healthy. And while you're at it, go for a walk.[/quote]

Since we are on an anonymous forum I’ll tell you what I really think about all those “people in medicine” living in your house. In my 20 year career in healthcare, I’ve discovered most practitioners are quite dumb. Incompetent at critical thinking. Really only skilled at memorizing, which was once incredibly helpful and is now mostly replaced by technology. There are very few true experts moving the ball forward in any area of practice but many self-aggrandizing frontline practitioners who couldn’t tell a well-designed study from a WebMD article. They are completely unable to grasp basic details of the validity of research like population size, confounding factors, P-hacking, etc. My only solace as a patient is that I can circumvent them when I need to with my privilege and ability to pay out of pocket. But I feel terrible for everyone else out there, seeing these hacks and getting truly horrible care and advice.

Hopefully OP can find someone actually competent. But it will be hard. [/quote]

Let me guess, you're in medical sales. Or worse, admin. Not an actual physician or researcher yourself but damn do you know a lot about it. 
Like I said, go for a walk. [/quote]

Pharma executive actually. [b]Thank God we in pharma actually cure disease and save lives[/b] because your PA husband and CNA daughter sure aren’t. [/quote]

I cannot believe you tried to paint Pharma as the good guys. How much price fixing you do today? Increase any medicines by 1000%? Sleep well at night? No wonder you're touting your "privilege and ability to pay out of pocket". Self-awareness is dead.[/quote]

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