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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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