> Doctors have to tip-toe around the issue lest some patients become offended. As someone with a couple doctors in my family, that's BS if talking about any co

> Doctors have to tip-toe around the issue lest some patients become offended. As someone with a couple doctors in my family, that's BS if talking about any competent doctor. No, doctors may not say "You're super fat and better eat less", but that's because they're generally not assholes, not because they're "tip-toeing" around obesity. On the contrary, for many decades most doctors would say the same thing: "You're overweight. You have bad lab numbers (e.g. high A1C, high cholesterol, etc.) You need to diet and exercise." Of course, that advice obviously made no difference at a societal level (Americans only got more obese) largely because of things pointed out in this article: cultural impacts of things like standard portion sizes, favored cuisines, ease of walking instead of needing to take a car everywhere, etc. swamped any once or twice a year advice of "you're overweight and need to diet and exercise more".