http://www.medrants.com/archives/1510 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.medrants.com/archives/1510/comment-page-1#comment-2587 Bernie Simon Sat, 04 Oct 2003 22:51:38 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2003/10/04/bull-market-diabetes-and-obesity/#comment-2587 The real problem is that after many years of research we still don't know enough about what causes obesity and what makes weight loss so difficult. Because macro nutrition isn't really amenable to the sort of double blind studies favored by modern medicine and cultural attitudes strongly bias opinions (e.g, vegetarianism) we're stumbling around in the dark. The real problem is that after many years of research we still don’t know enough about what causes obesity and what makes weight loss so difficult. Because macro nutrition isn’t really amenable to the sort of double blind studies favored by modern medicine and cultural attitudes strongly bias opinions (e.g, vegetarianism) we’re stumbling around in the dark.

]]> http://www.medrants.com/archives/1510/comment-page-1#comment-2586 lk Sat, 04 Oct 2003 22:41:14 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2003/10/04/bull-market-diabetes-and-obesity/#comment-2586 The health care dollar in America (usually the healh insurance premiuims) is the biggest bargain on the planet. But you would not know it listening to the politicians pandering to the citizenry. Wes Clark mentioned a fitness program in one debate, so that is a start. Ask not what the health care system can do for you, but what you can do for your own health. The health care dollar in America (usually the healh insurance premiuims) is the biggest bargain on the planet. But you would not know it listening to the politicians pandering to the citizenry. Wes Clark mentioned a fitness program in one debate, so that is a start. Ask not what the health care system can do for you, but what you can do for your own health.

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