[chownie]

Please talk to real people rather than reading things online and taking them as fact. This is on the face of it a completely ridiculous claim to make. When you announce to an entire classroom that someone is overweight and unhealthy that person becomes defacto target for bullying and abuse, that's probably why this practice has disappeared. Doctors do still tell people that they are overweight, despite your wild assertion that they do not.

I left highschool in the mid-2000s, I was told that I had high blood pressure for my age and to watch out for it. I had friends given advice to lose weight. I was given that same advice by doctors when I was gaining weight after having left school in the mid-2010's.

A young relative who was overweight was given advice to lose weight by his doctor, his parents agreed and made some changes to his diet with his cooperation.

Obesity correlates with a whole slew of different environmental, social and cultural variables, to reduce all of that complexity down to "we can't shame people into losing weight anymore" is absurd.

Even worse, it's not even the first time I've come across this take, so I actually have a link to share with you. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236245/

Read at your leisure, it's not that long.