The Iowa Channel posts this article: Doctors Don't Always Tell Obese Patients to Drop Pounds. The premise?



". . . 40 percent of doctors told their obese patients to lose weight in 2000, down about 3 percent from 1994. The government also says patients who were advised to lose weight were nearly three times more likely to drop the excess pounds than those who weren't given such advice."



C'mon, it's not like they're telling you anything you don't already know. Does it really take a brain surgeon to tell you should lose weight? Guess so.