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Pastimes : Heart Attacks, Cancer and strokes. Preventative approaches -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LindyBill who wrote (595)	8/5/2008 1:18:57 PM
From: jrhana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39348

It probably won't do too much good to spend a lot of time and energy with recriminations and witch hunts about the past. We can only influence the future. American doctors used to do cigarette commercials. But then they quickly took over the leadership in the anti-smoking crusade, and now they are fanatically anti-smoking. I have seen them described as the first group in the world to drastically reduce their own level of smoking. I think they were pretty quick to pick up on the vitamin D business (and this after watching dozens of fads come and go). I mean what are you going to do now, shoot them? Nobody's perfect after all. I think it is important to enlist the medical profession in the whole field of prevention (using concepts based in reality of course). There is a large percentage of the population that does actually respect his doctor's opinions; so as the medical profession takes an increasingly stronger stand on health prevention issues, they will have an influence. Much of actual education should be handled by nurse practitioners IMO. The average practitioner is busy trying to put out health brush fires with his patients so he doesn't really have a lot of time to spend on this. So that is where the physician extenders (Nurser practitioners and PAs) should come in. <People tend to get hung up in anything "new."> They will take whatever the latest fad supplement is and then use that as an excuse to drink soda and consume junk food. This is the only thread I read for general prevention and health. Everything else I have seen could charitably described as lunatic. If they want to live in lala land, that's their choice.