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How would you feel if your GP kept sending you messages encouraging you to eat less and lose weight?

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M0nica Sat 06-Oct-18 20:32:41

..... encouraging you to stop drinking or smoking or take exercise.

This is a suggestion from some public health quango. Doctors are to target overweight people, or drinkers, or the inactive with regular emails encouraging them to do the right thing.

Am I alone in saying that almost anybody I know, who received regular nagging messages from their GP, far from taking the advice proffered would be just become more determined not to change their habits.

We have already had discussions on GN about persuading DHs to change their behaviour or get someone with diabetes or who drinks too much to change their ways and the advice we always give is to stand back, say nothing as nothing makes people more intransigence and determined not to change their habits than constantly being told what they ought to do.

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M0nica Mon 08-Oct-18 22:33:14

Its late, I am tired, I have been decorating all evening and I am confusing threads.
PECS www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6246191/GPs-text-patients-urging-change-unhealthy-habits.html

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garnet25 Mon 08-Oct-18 23:07:29

M0nica The people I was talking about were hotel guests, British, German and Russian. The Egyptian staff were all slim.

PamelaJ1 I agree with you in many ways, however subsidised gym membership would be cheaper for the NHS than the medications and surgery these folk will eventually need.

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Breda Tue 09-Oct-18 12:39:00

Albertina

I sympathise so much with your comments. My granddaughter and her classmates have been told by a teacher that they shouldn’t put on any weight. Then child is 11! Of course she and her friends will put on weight - how else will they grow to be adults. It’s likely that the message has been received ‘out of context’ but it does highlight how easy it is to create anxiety and problems were non existed beforehand. My granddaughter who is tall for age at 5’7” is now absolutely terrified of eating anything and my daughter and the extended family are struggling to help her understand that the teachers remarks are not applicable to children who will continue to grow until maturity.

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PECS Tue 09-Oct-18 12:45:53

Thank you M0nica
hope your decorating is going OK and you got a good night's sleep!

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PECS Tue 09-Oct-18 13:01:28

Having had a look at this article is seems that the announcement at the Conservative Party Conference made by Matt Hancock, Health Secretary, may be a bit premature.
Public Health England are at the early stages of assessing if this 'predictive prevention' approach is a viable or useful approach in reducing illness & therefore cost to the health service. There are concerns about data protection etc as well as PHE still looking at the research in how effective this approach might be before it could be officially recommended. Somehow Matt Hancock was reported as already presenting it as a good idea! It would seem that nobody really knows yet!

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M0nica Tue 09-Oct-18 14:47:37

Instinct tells me that it would be counter productive.

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