Thu, Apr-04-24, 13:03
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Plan: Atkins-ish (hypoglycemia)
Stats: 000/000/000
BF:
Progress: 50%
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Originally Posted by WereBear
While we do have a problem with doctors trained to be drug dispensing robots, doctors also have a problem with patients who expect them to "fix it" without any effort on the part of the patients.
It leads to bizarre rants from people claiming their overweight makes their doctor ignore their distress. But if their poor metabolic state IS what is causing their knee pain, backaches, and all the distress that comes from chronic high blood sugars, it complicates everything else.
If what they eat is really the problem, it has to be addressed at the root. I'm afraid the concept of "artificial addictive food" is not something most people are going to get, even as they joke they are "addicted" to their favorite of such foods.
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They're not being told to avoid what's making them so sick and fat though - they're hearing the same ol' same ol' low fat, avoid meat unless it's lean, use fat free dairy, eat lots of whole grains, veggies, and fruit.
If they're metabolically messed up (which they probably are if they're fat and sick), that just makes things worse, so it's the last thing they need to be doing.
Nobody in their lives is telling them to avoid starches and sugars of all kinds, get plenty of meat and dairy with their naturally occurring fats, some green veggies, and limit your fruit to berries.
Even if the doctors got on board with that, it's still a hard push to get patients to follow a diet that's almost the exact opposite of what they've eaten for decades, and the concept of ditching bread and pasta is so foreign to them that they can't believe the doctor is being so cruel... so they're back to just pulling out the Rx pad and ordering a GLP-1, because at least that will generally result in weight loss so help get the physical problems under control.
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