Prednisone alone can really affect your weight. My daughter had to take it & another steroid for asthma and gained 5 lbs in one week!

But a little off the topic - I guess I should thank insensitive people for probably saving my life. When I was 19, I looked into going into the navy for the college funding. I aced the little test that they give you at the office and the recruiters got me all hyped up. Then a particularily gruff recruiter weighed me, looked at me like I was an insignificant ant, and said - "You need to loose some weight". Needless to say - I walked out and never thought about that again. My weight at the time - 135 lbs & I'm 5"8 1/2. However because of that stupid chart - my ideal weight is supposed to be 125. Yeah - right.

Here is some additional information about the good doctor. This is was today Atlanta Journal Constitution....
This is only part of the article.
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By J.M. HIRSCH
Associated Press Writer

CONCORD, N.H. — The state is investigating a doctor accused of telling a patient she was so obese she might only be attractive to black men and advising another to shoot herself following brain surgery.

"Let's face it, if your husband were to die tomorrow, who would want you?" the state Board of Medicine says Dr. Terry Bennett told the overweight patient in June 2004.

"Well, men might want you, but not the types you want to want you. Might even be a black guy," it quoted him as saying, based on the woman's complaint.

The board said it also is taking a second look at a 2001 allegation — deemed unfounded at the time — that Bennett told a woman recovering from brain surgery to buy a pistol and shoot herself to end her suffering.

Bennett made national news last week when the complaint from the obese woman became public without any mention of the racial comment. But Senior Assistant Attorney General Richard Head, who leads the state Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau, said Tuesday the woman complained about the racial remark, not about being lectured.

In a telephone interview Tuesday from Rochester, Bennett denied any wrongdoing and defended his message to her, saying he has read polls that say black men prefer overweight women.

Bennett added that he is angry the board is reconsidering the 2001 complaint.

"That patient is currently in a nursing home completely demented, tied to a chair drooling on herself and doesn't recognize anybody," said Bennett, 67. "She was in pretty nearly that condition at the time she filed that complaint."

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The plot thickens.

OH MY I have not laughed this hard in a LONG time. Holy crap that is funny.

Frankly, I'd like such a blunt doctor.

I agree. My doctor is pretty blunt and I appreciate it. I don't have the time to be in her office and beat around the bush for 20 minutes before I hear what she really needs to say and I don't think my doctor has teh time for that either. Considering how short the average office visit is it would probably benefit everyone to have doctors be more to the point during visits....although I don't know that suggesting suicide is a good option, lol.

This man tells it like it is. I love it.

I'm sorry, the racial comments make me laugh even more.

With the obese lady Necessary Motivation; We're such a lawsuit happy country..geesh.

Now the other stuff, that's out there to say the least.