UM: Weight Advice

A column in the New York Times looks at how doctors struggle to follow their own advice regarding weight loss. The piece quotes Julie C. Lumeng, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the UM Medical School and an expert in childhood obesity: ”The advice we’re supposed to give in pediatric clinic, it boils down to ‘Eat less, exercise more.’ This is such blasphemy, but when I deliver this advice to families, my heart’s not in it, because I just feel like so often the families are just glazing over, and when that advice is delivered to me, I glaze over, too.” [Source]