Obesity Rapidly Approaching Tobacco as Leading Cause of Preventable Deaths
Obesity in the United States has finally reached the point where it is competing with smoking as a cause of death? A study by researchers at the University of Illinois was looking at how health care providers counseled their patients. More specifically – did they provide primary prevention of overweight and obesity?
The researchers looked at healthy weight individuals who reported being advised to maintain a healthy weight. They found that only 2.6% were so advised. The researchers concluded: “Only a very small proportion of healthy-weight adults received primary prevention, which suggests that physicians are missing opportunities to help address the epidemic of adult obesity in the US.”
The numbers of obese keeps increasing and it seems that little is being done about it?
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