Doctors urged to tackle malnutrition in obesity
Not low carb per se, but I expect this interesting observation will probably be of interest to forum members regardless.
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Doctors cant teach nutrition to patients.....they are as ignorant as their patients.
And ya, its easy to see malnutrition as obesity. Its in the 'thin" people too. The TOFI's. The ailses in the middle of a grocery store where the nutritionally deficient is displayed FAR out numbers the footage of the outer perimeter. Even dr atkins wrote about the poor state and need to build up the nutritional state of those who ate the standard American diet. Medical study is 20 plus years behind Dr Atkins, at least.( Likely back to his first edition in '72, sooooo 50 years!) |
The carbage that many people continuosly eat causes malnutrition.
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I agree with Arielle. If doctors are expected to teach nutrition, they better adjust the curriculum in medical school. Then, they'll learn to eat less, move more and stay away from red and processed meats and sources of saturated fats. Can't wait for that :bash:
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One doctor replied "I'm a doctor, and I know the solution. You need to cut down on what you eat and get more exercise" the classic "eat less, move more" most doctors suggest. And said he couldn't understand why his patients couldn't seem to do it when the answer was so obvious. Once woman replied "if 95% of your patients can't follow your advice (which is about the failure rate of the 'eat less, move more' advice) then maybe the problem is not your patients, but that the advice you're giving them is wrong". And naturally everyone jumped all over her telling her she was an idiot. |
But it's not just the "carbage" and poor food choices causing the malnutrition. I've been following a low-carb whole-food lifestyle since the late 1990s. Yes, I slip up and eat carbage sometimes, but 90% of the time I consider my diet to be filled with healthful foods.
Around 2014 when I was seeing a new doc and complaining that "I'm doing everything right and still can't lose weight," he had me do several nutrition tests (like NutrEval and others) and stool tests to determine how my body was using the nutrients I was taking in. Turns out my digestion was sub-par and I was on the verge of malnutrition. He said this explained why I kept gaining and couldn't lose the fat. Since my body couldn't digest/metabolize the food, it was simply storing it as fat. The recommendation was for me to take several different probiotics every day and to take digestive enzymes every time I eat something. I will admit that I don't always do this, probably not even half the time. Why? I wish someone would tell me. I set reminders on my computer and phone, I've tried keeping my supplements in the bathroom, or the kitchen, or in my home office, thinking that if I see them, I'll take them. Nope. After a day or two I don't even notice them anymore. And get this. One of my cats needs to take 3 medications morning and night, and has since last February. Do you think I've forgotten to give them to him even once? Nope. But I routinely forget to take my own meds/supplements. |
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Tried that, too. Still didn't work. But, your post made me go take them all just now. :lol: |
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