Re: Blind leading the blind

"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.