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Re:If Doctors Learned to Cook, They Might Give Better Advice by saguin on Monday December 28, 2015 @02:44AM (#10800306)
Preposterous!! they should also be trained to give behavior modification advice too? This too could save lives. People need to use common sense, learn what's good for yourself and practice that. At this rate the author will soon want them to learn to code too!
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Re:If Doctors Learned to Cook, They Might Give Better Advice by jfoutz on Monday December 28, 2015 @03:22AM (#10800386)
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

Wouldn't a doctor be a good person to ask what's good for you? amazon has about 50,000 different diet books, it's really not obvious what's "right". Even the glorious USDA has a lot of industry influence in what it recommends/accepts. The food plate is better than the water, kale, and doughnut diet, but it has its own issues.

so, yeah, for a general practice they should probably talk about quitting smoking, getting exercise, avoiding being overweight, guns, etc. pretty much anything on the top 10[1] seems like a good idea.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

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Re:If Doctors Learned to Cook, They Might Give Better Advice by MikeNomad on Monday December 28, 2015 @06:25AM (#10800683)
I didn't see guns on the list you linked to. I did see that Heart Disease and Cancer account for nearly twice the number of deaths as the remaining eight items on the list.

What am I missing?

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Re:If Doctors Learned to Cook, They Might Give Better Advice by nanofortnight on Monday December 28, 2015 @07:03AM (#10800752)
Actual causes of death, table 2: http://www.csdp.org/research/1238.pdf#page=3
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Re:If Doctors Learned to Cook, They Might Give Better Advice by DanBC on Monday December 28, 2015 @07:21AM (#10800799)
I hope they are trained to give behaviour modification advice.

Otherwise schemes like " Making Every Contact Count" are useless.

http://www.makingeverycontactcount.co.uk/

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/mecc-g...

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