Phil Hammond..Look at the last 3 decades...the leaders of the royal colleges ,the patient organisations and nursing over the last few decades have been part of the cause of this mess as much as successive governments.I emigrated to Australia as a Dr because the leaders of medicine in the UK were either spineless or expedient..The only thing to improve the situation is a new zeitgeist of junior drs with more principles than their elders..I am talking about GPs giving up the 24 hr commitment to patients.I am talking about the catastrophic sudden unmonitored reduction in Junior dr hours and the loss student nurses being able to nurse patients on the ward.I am talking about the use of untrained nurses to see patients in walk in centres without proper supervision.I am talking about poor care that was by no means only seen in Stafford Trust.It was seen in all hospitals over those years.The junior drs have had enough of the BS
All is so expensive. If only there was a way to save some money, redistribute it. T2 diabetes comes to mind. Proper diet could save billions, but not with breakfast cereal, 5-a-day and a can of Coke on the "eat well" plate.
My 2µF A good diet (whatever that is) would no doubt help, But there is no reason to think that it would work miracles. Unfortunately almost all the research on diet relies on observational epidemiology, a method that's notorious for giving the wrong answer. You might be interested in "We know little about the effect of diet on health. That’s why so much is written about it", at www.dcscience.net/2013/11/18/we-know-little-about-the-effect-of-diet-on-health-thats-why-so-much-is-written-about-it/
Ah, associations and food questionnaires... ewww. What is known? The modern western diet is lethal. What is used in abundance today? Sugar, vegetable oils and a whole lot of additives. I fancy a Victorian diet. There is a nice paper on this matter. Home cooked meals, meat, fish, winged dinosaurs and some veggies drowned in butter. Fruit only when in season. 4 teaspoons of sugar per day. No juice or fizzy drinks.
Finally, a common sense approach. Excellent, level-headed analysis.
No nonsense from this guy.
Phil Hammond..Look at the last 3 decades...the leaders of the royal colleges ,the patient organisations and nursing over the last few decades have been part of the cause of this mess as much as successive governments.I emigrated to Australia as a Dr because the leaders of medicine in the UK were either spineless or expedient..The only thing to improve the situation is a new zeitgeist of junior drs with more principles than their elders..I am talking about GPs giving up the 24 hr commitment to patients.I am talking about the catastrophic sudden unmonitored reduction in Junior dr hours and the loss student nurses being able to nurse patients on the ward.I am talking about the use of untrained nurses to see patients in walk in centres without proper supervision.I am talking about poor care that was by no means only seen in Stafford Trust.It was seen in all hospitals over those years.The junior drs have had enough of the BS
All is so expensive. If only there was a way to save some money, redistribute it. T2 diabetes comes to mind. Proper diet could save billions, but not with breakfast cereal, 5-a-day and a can of Coke on the "eat well" plate.
My 2µF
A good diet (whatever that is) would no doubt help, But there is no reason to think that it would work miracles. Unfortunately almost all the research on diet relies on observational epidemiology, a method that's notorious for giving the wrong answer. You might be interested in "We know little about the effect of diet on health. That’s why so much is written about it", at www.dcscience.net/2013/11/18/we-know-little-about-the-effect-of-diet-on-health-thats-why-so-much-is-written-about-it/
Ah, associations and food questionnaires... ewww.
What is known? The modern western diet is lethal. What is used in abundance today? Sugar, vegetable oils and a whole lot of additives.
I fancy a Victorian diet. There is a nice paper on this matter. Home cooked meals, meat, fish, winged dinosaurs and some veggies drowned in butter. Fruit only when in season. 4 teaspoons of sugar per day. No juice or fizzy drinks.