An Open Letter…..”An Awakening” to the personal responsibility of health Doc, 10-22-2008 I’ve been thinking about the conversation we had the other week. You gave me an article that you wrote about the importance (and unwillingness of Americans) of practicing preventative health. You also spoke to me about how the idea of health has been...
No sooner had I published my entry (10-13-2008), “The Rectification of Names,” I read an article in the NYTimes: “Campaign Myth: Prevention as Cure-All.” In short, its author, H.Gilbert Walsh, MD says: Why is it that in a presidential campaign “both candidates champion one of medical care’s most pervasive myths? The myth is that like...
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Getting the Words Right : or, “Through the Looking Glass” As acclaimed author Michael Pollan recently wrote, “the corruption of society begins with the corruption of words. Therefore, any attempt to fix what is wrong in the world had best start with the rectification of names.” Clearly, the corruption of language to serve ulterior motives...
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Look around at any group of 100 adults (age 20 or over). How many of them do you think are healthy? How many of them think they are healthy? We can assume that our group of 100 is consistent with national statistics. Therefore: 66 are overweight or obese, 11 have diabetes, 27 have cardiovascular disease,...
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