Altru reaches out to those at risk of diabetes
September 29, 2012 at 4:49 pm in Grand Forks Herald
The National Diabetes Prevention Program uses proven methods to help participants make lifestyle changes that encourage weight loss through healthy eating and physical activity. The vast majority of people living with “prediabetes” don’t know they have it, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Continue Reading
I am all in favor of disease prevention. But I also recognize that what passes for advice is really nothing more than a pact between the medical establishment and big pharma. Nowhere else in the world do medical associations accept the low numbers for cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, and the like, than what the AMA foists on the public. Their one size fits all measurements made Pfizer’s Lipitor sales $18 billion a year. And since most MDs never bother to read any journals, they believe the AMA, and the pharma reps, who regale them with all sorts of goodies.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0