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Harping on people ad nauseam to lose weight is rather ?sadistic,? there?s little evidence the treatment of obesity works and even the benefits of weight loss are debatable.
In arguments like these, being played out in the official journal of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, doctors are debating whether it?s futile to try to treat obesity.
?The few patients who manage to lose weight and keep it off achieve something truly remarkable. From a public health standpoint, however, the treatment of obesity is a failure,? writes Dr. Jana Havrankova, of Clinique familiale Saint-Lambert in Quebec, in the current edition of Canadian Family Physician.
One weight-loss drug after another has been pulled off the market over serious harms and the long-term effects of existing treatments remain controversial, adds associate scientific editor Dr. Roger Ladouceur in an accompanying editorial.
?Why, then, do we tell our patients to lose weight?? he asks.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Treatment+obesity+failure+doctors+argue/6656093/story.html
In arguments like these, being played out in the official journal of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, doctors are debating whether it?s futile to try to treat obesity.
?The few patients who manage to lose weight and keep it off achieve something truly remarkable. From a public health standpoint, however, the treatment of obesity is a failure,? writes Dr. Jana Havrankova, of Clinique familiale Saint-Lambert in Quebec, in the current edition of Canadian Family Physician.
One weight-loss drug after another has been pulled off the market over serious harms and the long-term effects of existing treatments remain controversial, adds associate scientific editor Dr. Roger Ladouceur in an accompanying editorial.
?Why, then, do we tell our patients to lose weight?? he asks.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Treatment+obesity+failure+doctors+argue/6656093/story.html