{
  "id": 667017,
  "title": "Most patients with obesity don't get the weight counseling they need, say researchers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/most-patients-with-obesity-dont-get-the-weight-counseling-they-need",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-12T13:00:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-patients-obesity-dont-weight.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "There's no shortage of weight-loss advice on social media, TikTok, television and AI chatbots. But the most credible source—a patient's own primary care doctor—is often the one they're not hearing from.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}