[metabagel]

> It's also rare for a doctor to tell a person they are too fat and to lose weight.

I don't think this is true. Doctors do tell patients if they are overweight, and they do encourage them to make lifestyle changes including losing weight.

[psychlops]

Okay, that's fair, I didn't provide data so you responded in kind. So I went to find a study:

"Fewer than one of five overweight patients and slightly over half of obese patients reported being told they were overweight by their provider."

So "rare" is the wrong word.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/journal-articl...