It is important that people take responsibility for their weight...

A leading doctor in the United Kingdom has spoken out about the obesity problem that is facing the country. According to Dr Hamish Meldrum who is the head of the British Medical Association, obesity is being “over-medicalised”. What he means is that people who quite simply are overweight because they do not workout enough and they eat too much are being given the impression that the reason that they are obese is due to some sort of medical problem. Doctor Meldrum argued that this means that individuals feel that they cannot be responsible for their weight gain and blame it on an imaginary obesity illness, when in fact they should just simply eat less and get some exercise.

Doctor Meldrum noted that in order to be sensitive to the patients sometimes doctors referred to them as having a “hyper appetite problem” meaning that they simply ate too much. At Ukmedix News we have seen a lot of research regarding weight loss and it is a simple fact that clear diagnosis of obesity and plain speaking is statistically more effective in getting obese people to lose weight than skirting around the issue for fear of offending them.

Overweight and obese people often live in complete denial of their problem and for any weight loss program to be successful the person in question needs to take stock of his or her situation and be honest about it. While in very exceptional cases some people may be overweight as a result of some medical condition the vast majority of people who have weight problems do so because they eat too much food and they don't exercise.

It is important that people take responsibility for their weight and their health and do not pass on that responsibility to doctors, fad diets or diet pills. If you want to lose the pounds you must remember that the buck stops with you.