The only real way to lower health care costs in this country is to create a national political and social campaign for good nutrition. Currently we focus almost entirely on controlling the costs of disease treatment.
Walter Willett's "Eat Drink and Be Healthy: Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating" interprets the plethora of nutritional studies, and makes clear that certain practical nutritional changes can make significant impacts on anyone's health.
For example, the food pyramid is misleading and should be revised, and here's the political problem: the current pyramid was devised by the Dept. of Agriculture, an agency charged with promoting agricultural business. The D of A can hardly be expected to promote foods based solely on health reasons.
Why, when trans fats were found to be so clearly unhealthy, did American fast food chains switch over to trans fats, while European fast food chains avoided them? This is surely a question of political will and social apathy or confusion.
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I will not support something that starts "the only real way...".
If you can't get past the first sentence because it doesn't come up to your standards of humility, you must be clueless about most world literature, religion, politics, and art.
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