Comments on: Obesity and Childrens http://blog.4d2.org/2008/05/20/obesity-and-childrens/ Because everyone else already has one Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:58:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kara http://blog.4d2.org/2008/05/20/obesity-and-childrens/comment-page-1/#comment-412 Kara Wed, 21 May 2008 12:57:28 +0000 http://blog.4d2.org/?p=340#comment-412 Dr. A was weird about that. It just doesn't seem helpful to me. I think doctors who were trained earlier probably don't know the right way to deal with overweight children, which is a shame since they see a lot more these days. When I worked at the Dr's office last Fall, they had a nutritionist in two days a week to see people. She seemed nice and knowledgeable. I think more places may have to follow that trend. That said, I think you're a special case in terms of weight and health. I don't think most overweight people have good cholesterol, activity levels, etc. and because there's such a stigma attached to being overweight, I think most people will argue with their doctors. Like when you go to the dentist and he asks you how much you brush. I know people who follow all the dentist's directions and still have weak teeth, but for most people that's probably not true. It isn't a lie, sometimes people believe they're better off than they are. I always thought I ate pretty well (presumably because I didn't eat candy bars or soda), but being where I am now, I can see that wasn't true. oh well, just thoughts. Dr. A was weird about that. It just doesn’t seem helpful to me. I think doctors who were trained earlier probably don’t know the right way to deal with overweight children, which is a shame since they see a lot more these days. When I worked at the Dr’s office last Fall, they had a nutritionist in two days a week to see people. She seemed nice and knowledgeable. I think more places may have to follow that trend.

That said, I think you’re a special case in terms of weight and health. I don’t think most overweight people have good cholesterol, activity levels, etc. and because there’s such a stigma attached to being overweight, I think most people will argue with their doctors. Like when you go to the dentist and he asks you how much you brush. I know people who follow all the dentist’s directions and still have weak teeth, but for most people that’s probably not true. It isn’t a lie, sometimes people believe they’re better off than they are. I always thought I ate pretty well (presumably because I didn’t eat candy bars or soda), but being where I am now, I can see that wasn’t true.

oh well, just thoughts.

]]> By: jess http://blog.4d2.org/2008/05/20/obesity-and-childrens/comment-page-1/#comment-407 jess Wed, 21 May 2008 01:57:50 +0000 http://blog.4d2.org/?p=340#comment-407 Dr.A was always so weird -- Mom would take me/bro to the doc together and Dr.A would say how it was good that I apparently didn't eat candy bars (huh?) and tell me to tell bro not to eat them. I would always give him a weird look and say that NONE of us ate candy bars. Because we didn't really (save like, Halloween/Easter). I have had to FIGHT with doctors in the past 10 years to try to find ways to deal with weight. Why? Because they check my cholesterol and thyroid and blood sugar and blood pressure and ask me about my activity levels... and discover that I am HEALTHY against those measures. Just not the weight (which came on fast when I went on birth control in college). And weight doesn't make its effects known immediately. It takes time and YEARS of putting stress on the system before it screws things up too bad (at least when you are young). I still have to fight with them, since despite working with nutritionists and doctors and everything, nothing makes enough of a difference. Anyway, my point is mostly that I don't think that doctors have much training in HOW to help or what to say, especially when the problem is not always "eating candy bars." Dr.A was always so weird — Mom would take me/bro to the doc together and Dr.A would say how it was good that I apparently didn’t eat candy bars (huh?) and tell me to tell bro not to eat them. I would always give him a weird look and say that NONE of us ate candy bars. Because we didn’t really (save like, Halloween/Easter).

I have had to FIGHT with doctors in the past 10 years to try to find ways to deal with weight. Why? Because they check my cholesterol and thyroid and blood sugar and blood pressure and ask me about my activity levels… and discover that I am HEALTHY against those measures. Just not the weight (which came on fast when I went on birth control in college). And weight doesn’t make its effects known immediately. It takes time and YEARS of putting stress on the system before it screws things up too bad (at least when you are young).

I still have to fight with them, since despite working with nutritionists and doctors and everything, nothing makes enough of a difference.

Anyway, my point is mostly that I don’t think that doctors have much training in HOW to help or what to say, especially when the problem is not always “eating candy bars.”

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