The Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity

"The BMI can be useful for sure, but it is just one of many factors that influences or gauges health. While it is a significant factor in some disease, it is not in others."

Just simply not true.  Self esteem is the number one block or support, whichever you have, to self-healing and overweight people often have little of it.  I needn't say more.

"By the way, my doctor has never once asked me about my height or weight. I can't remember any doctor over the last 25 years ever checking my height or weight. Are you sure that this is the first thing they do??"

In the past 40 and more years I've never visited a medical doctor who hasn't weighed me in (except for eye doctors).  It's always done by the RN, but that's the first thing they look at to compare it with previous weigh ins as well as to check for overweight.  I've visited more doctors than most people in the past 10 years due to lots of cancer, knee replacements (yeah, I've tried alternative methods without any positive results, and I can walk for an hour and a half at a time with no problems), eye surgery, and many other conditions not worth mentioning.  

I quit visiting chiropractors about 20 years ago when all they had to offer was their own supply of supplements as well as their known broken backs.  I have also made several acupuncturist visits with no visible results.  

As an author who cured his pancreatic cancer wrote "Medical doctors make mistakes but in all my seeking alternative physicians they exceed MDs many times over."

Everybody's biggest block to healing is themselves.  If they don't wish to heal, they won't no matter what they do.  It's a matter of spirit taking seniority over body.  By taking control of my spiritual reality I've cured myself of debilitating migraine headaches (none for 30 years), and severe atrial fibrillation (heart palpitations) and so can anybody else.

By the way, you didn't list your BMI.  Mine is 23.6 and yes, it's been difficult to get and stay there at times but it is well worth it.

Doctors are taught little or nothing about the vital role of proper diet and nutrition, very little about lifestyle and physical activities and what they are taught, if anything, about herbs and other natural healing is that it is either ineffective or dangerous.

To be sure, mainstream doctors are where I would head in the instance of severe physical trauma (say, a bad car wreck) and for other emergency care.  Putting things back together is what they do best and it fits within their paradigm of treating symptoms and treating the body as a collection of parts instead of treating the whole body.

My late father serves as an example of the good and dark sides of mainstream medicine.  He was in a very serious car accident and, after a series of operations, they pretty much put him back together.  However, due to pneumonia and MRSA that he contracted in the hospital and the horrible nutrition he received, he never made it out of the hospital alive. Ultimately, undernourished and his immune system shot, he even contracted cancer.  Thanks to a healthy diet and exercise (he worked out at the gym several times a week), he lasted for almost two years before finally wasting away.

Is there bad information and advice on CureZone? Certainly. But there is also some wonderful information, some very caring and selfless people and some very worthy forums.  In the end, it should be incumbent on everyone with health issues to do their own research and not blindly take the word of anyone as being gospel - and that certainly includes mainstream doctors as well as members of CureZone.