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Originally Posted by Villages PL
When I said USF is going to promote healthy eating I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Based on the lectures they gave, I have some doubt as to how much serious effort they will put into it. In the very first lecture, Dr. Peterson mentioned healthy eating but skipped over it so quickly, you would have missed it if you sneezed. So I could see from the very beginning that there was NO enthusiasm for it. And one thing I'm pretty sure of is that they won't achieve much unless they make healthy eating their number one priority. No bonified health study would do otherwise.
To think they might come up with something else is like thinking that we can, or should, reinvent the wheel.  |
Do you really believe the intent of the study is to come up with a treatment plan? It certainly seems so. Consider that the population being studied is mostly seniors who have had a considerable amount of time to develop good and bad lifestyle habits, the result of which is the overall well-being they now experience. The study questions seek to identify more precisely the population here, including their good and not so good actions that affect their health. Once the information is processed (Oops, I said a bad word, there.), they will be able to make recommendations to the overall population on how to maximize their lives while still enjoying their remaining years.
I reject your premise that medications are inherently bad. You are certainly welcome to your view that healthy eating is the primary source of good health, but it far too simplistic, in my view. It would seem you believe that if I have an unsettled family situation, a stressful job in a polluted environment, get no exercise, and have ancestors that died at an early age from heart disease or diabetes or cancer, that if I follow your "healthy eating" I will be completely healthy and can avoid medical intervention, especially in the form of "drugs". You don't think healthy eating will modify DNA, do you?