I do not understand how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services leaves out the only licensed professional to promote a change in body weight.  Licensed nutritionists are trained and study obesity in undergraduate, graduate, and PhD programs.  Physicians study the disease states that obesity creates.  Many physicians have stated that their training did not provide them with the study of causes and treatment for obesity.  I do not understand how this law was passed.  Would you allow a licensed nutritionist to prescribe medication for clinical conditions when they have not been trained to do so in school or professional programs.  This is what this law/ruling allows for the physician.  If a licensed nutritionist discontinued a patient's medicine prescribed by a physician, it would be illegal.  I am truly baffled that such a professional not trained to treat obesity nutritionally is one of the only authorized professionals to provide this service.  ????

What is happening to this country?  Has all reason been cast aside.