Get Up And Do Something: Doctors often don't counsel the obese

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Doctors often don't counsel the obese Feb 20th 2013, 11:41 Overweight and obese patients might not be the only ones who dread the number on the scale each time they visit the doctor's office. Research shows that many physicians don't know how to constructively discuss a patient's weight, or they avoid the subject entirely. Penn State doctors recently published a study showing that weight counseling by primary care doctors has decreased even as the nation's obesity rate has grown. They compared patient data from the mid-1990s with data from 2007-08. Patients seen a decade later had a 46 percent lower chance of receiving weight counseling. Counseling took place in 6 percent of visits. During the same time period, the number of overweight or obese adults jumped from 52 to 63 percent.

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