While we do have a problem with doctors trained to be drug dispensing robots, doctors also have a problem with patients who expect them to "fix it" without any effort on the part of the patients.

It leads to bizarre rants from people claiming their overweight makes their doctor ignore their distress. But if their poor metabolic state IS what is causing their knee pain, backaches, and all the distress that comes from chronic high blood sugars, it complicates everything else.

If what they eat is really the problem, it has to be addressed at the root. I'm afraid the concept of "artificial addictive food" is not something most people are going to get, even as they joke they are "addicted" to their favorite of such foods.