You've got one thing right. Over a billion people are now obese, a rate that has skyrocketed over the past 30 years. Whether physicians ever refer people for psych evaluations is irrelevant. My point is simple: I don't think it's plausible that the obesity epidemic is an "emotional problem". Beyond that, we've just fallen into sniping in a pointless way, which I have no wish to continue.
The thing about physicians is, if global amoral food conglomerates are targeting young people with unhealthy products, for example, there's little or nothing an individual physician can do about that. They can offer advice to an individual patient, but they can't really treat a societal problem. So if you're looking at it only from the perspective of an individual physician, you're missing the forest for the trees.
It would be like looking at cigarette smoking as an "emotional problem" while completely ignoring the role of the cigarette manufacturers in producing, marketing, and selling a product that they know is both addictive and deadly. Of course your physician would say don't smoke. (Ironically, some physicians smoke too.) It's no mystery that smoking is unhealthy. But it would be absurd to refer a smoker for a psych evaluation as if they were mentally ill. That's not the reason people are smoking.
You've got one thing right. Over a billion people are now obese, a rate that has skyrocketed over the past 30 years. Whether physicians ever refer people for psych evaluations is irrelevant. My point is simple: I don't think it's plausible that the obesity epidemic is an "emotional problem". Beyond that, we've just fallen into sniping in a pointless way, which I have no wish to continue.
The thing about physicians is, if global amoral food conglomerates are targeting young people with unhealthy products, for example, there's little or nothing an individual physician can do about that. They can offer advice to an individual patient, but they can't really treat a societal problem. So if you're looking at it only from the perspective of an individual physician, you're missing the forest for the trees.
It would be like looking at cigarette smoking as an "emotional problem" while completely ignoring the role of the cigarette manufacturers in producing, marketing, and selling a product that they know is both addictive and deadly. Of course your physician would say don't smoke. (Ironically, some physicians smoke too.) It's no mystery that smoking is unhealthy. But it would be absurd to refer a smoker for a psych evaluation as if they were mentally ill. That's not the reason people are smoking.