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I was a vegetarian for years and my health was terrible, when I reintroduced animal protein I lost 30# and felt great. We can not live on rabbit food, it doesn't provide our human bodies all of the nutrients we were created to use.
The problem lays with ALL the garbage they are injecting in the animals and their food.
Moderation and taking responsibility for yourself is really the key to healthy living and eating.
What I envisage is more use by the medical community of dietitians, coaches, trainers, and building in accountability of the patient to use these to make lifestyle changes. Drugs as a last choice rather than a first choice sort of thing. But this is not how medicine is practiced.
Change of any kind is difficult as I am sure we all know. The psychology of change can be applied to individuals as well as organizations. To me it needs to be part of the training of medical personnel.
He died of prostate cancer because he didn't "believe" in Western medicine and all those stupid screening tests.
Like for PSA.
I was sad for them. In their twenties and already in bad health, clearly because of their weight! Our joints aren't meant to schlepp around 300 pounds of fat.
As a family caregiver, I wish people would take better care of themselves so that others won't have to.
Doctors should continue to advocate to stay healthy but as a society we need to push to have more focus on preventative medicine because if not, medical care will bankrupt the country.
Goes to show that it is not the diet alone that keeps us healthy.
That isn't to say we can't be perfectly healthy on other diets. But it would be wrong to ask doctors to tell us to be vegetarians, when that is not what we are.
As to doctors and diets, they do not seem to address obesity at all, and THAT is what makes me cringe, as a nurse. Say what we will about fat-shaming, etc., it is not healthy to become so overweight that we have to face down diabetes (type 2, and many other illnesses), one of the best killers out there, and one that gets little recognition, because it causes so much organ failure that the cause of death listed is merely the organ that gave out first.
Like you, I wish doctors would discuss diet. I wish they would incorporate nutritionists so that whatever diet you wish to follow that person can expertly guide you toward health.
Given our doctors are allowed 10 minutes each with us now, I guess they are limited in what they CAN discuss, because seems to me they don't discuss our exercise and our (bad) habits, either.
We can argue diets, what's best for us and what's best for the planet, until the cows come home. But why would we? We've so much ELSE to argue!
We all have a right to our own choices which to follow, and our choices whether to eat too much of it or not.
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