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Medicine is not just about diagnosis and treatment – what about compliance and prevention? How does a culture make people eat more healthily, for example?<br> | Medicine is not just about diagnosis and treatment – what about compliance and prevention? How does a culture make people eat more healthily, for example?<br> | ||
| − | We sorta have the answers to Alzheimer's (meditation and turmeric), cancer (anti-angiogenic foods, garlic, turmeric), osteoporosis (weightbearing exercise, calcium and vitamin D), cardiovascular disease ([http://www.medicinenet.com/omega-3_fatty_acids/page2.htm omega-3], avoiding saturated fat, exercise), type-II diabetes (exercise, avoiding sugar), lung cancer (the obvious) and other degenerative diseases. <br> | + | We sorta have the answers to Alzheimer's (meditation and turmeric), cancer (anti-angiogenic foods, garlic, turmeric), osteoporosis (weightbearing exercise, calcium and vitamin D), cardiovascular disease ([http://www.medicinenet.com/omega-3_fatty_acids/page2.htm omega-3], avoiding saturated fat, exercise), type-II diabetes (exercise, avoiding sugar), lung cancer (the obvious) and other degenerative diseases. |
| − | Healthcare could be massively unburdened by a change in attitude, by people taking more responsibility. But people don't. A world where people eat a lot of fruit and vegetables, exercise two hours a week and meditate would be a world with maybe a quarter as much degenerative disease. I do not currently have any particular suggestions on how this might be achieved. | + | |
| + | [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15010446 "Modifiable behavioral risk factors are leading causes of mortality in the United States."] <br>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8411605 "Approximately half of all deaths that occurred in 1990 could be attributed to the (lifestyle) factors identified."] | ||
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| + | Healthcare could be massively unburdened by a change in attitude, by people taking more responsibility. But people don't. A world where people eat a lot of fruit and vegetables, exercise two hours a week and meditate would be a world with maybe a quarter as much degenerative disease. I do not currently have any particular suggestions on how this might be achieved.--[[User:Balatro|Balatro]] 23:22, 30 June 2010 (CEST) | ||
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| + | Schools can give information, though I don't think there's any real evidence that telling someone to eat healthily at school means they'll eat healthily. Changing the public food environment (by doing the stuff discussed at the [[Food]] page) is a massive one too. Technology that give people metrics on their lifestyle (like Phillips DirectLife) is definitely useful.--[[User:Balatro|Balatro]] 23:22, 30 June 2010 (CEST) | ||
Revision as of 23:22, 30 June 2010
I can't figure out how to get the wiki to display a stub for the New Treatments page, so you can click thru to see the full article. (It can't be displayed in one column, because the da Vinci image doesn't fit, but resizing the da Vinci image kills the impact.) --Balatro 19:54, 20 May 2010 (CEST)
- Sorry delay, see if what I've done now helps. -- Charles.
Preventive medicine/ Public health
Medicine is not just about diagnosis and treatment – what about compliance and prevention? How does a culture make people eat more healthily, for example?
We sorta have the answers to Alzheimer's (meditation and turmeric), cancer (anti-angiogenic foods, garlic, turmeric), osteoporosis (weightbearing exercise, calcium and vitamin D), cardiovascular disease (omega-3, avoiding saturated fat, exercise), type-II diabetes (exercise, avoiding sugar), lung cancer (the obvious) and other degenerative diseases.
"Modifiable behavioral risk factors are leading causes of mortality in the United States."
"Approximately half of all deaths that occurred in 1990 could be attributed to the (lifestyle) factors identified."
Healthcare could be massively unburdened by a change in attitude, by people taking more responsibility. But people don't. A world where people eat a lot of fruit and vegetables, exercise two hours a week and meditate would be a world with maybe a quarter as much degenerative disease. I do not currently have any particular suggestions on how this might be achieved.--Balatro 23:22, 30 June 2010 (CEST)
Schools can give information, though I don't think there's any real evidence that telling someone to eat healthily at school means they'll eat healthily. Changing the public food environment (by doing the stuff discussed at the Food page) is a massive one too. Technology that give people metrics on their lifestyle (like Phillips DirectLife) is definitely useful.--Balatro 23:22, 30 June 2010 (CEST)
