I was once on almost 30 medications because of this practice. Drs don’t even consider if an issue is a side effect. They once wanted me to endure a specific unpleasant therapy (which I refused) for an issue they claimed I had and THAT turned out to be a side effect of a medication as well. I found out later but had stopped taking the medication and the issue disappeared so I looked up the side effects and sure enough it was a listed side effect. Why don’t drs look at this FIRST!?
Sad! The things that I witnessed after 24 years in the medical industry were disgusting! When people would come into our clinic who were morbidly obese, the first question I would ask them is, do you drink soda? They would say 3-4 Big Gulps/day; I would tell them if they quit drinking soda and substitute it for water, they would lose a minimum of 10-15lbs in the first month. When they came back a month later, they lost 15-20 lbs and got off medication for diabetes and blood pressure.
You must have been Very persuasive....Most of the very overweight people I've met, have been so deep in a cycle of depression, they wouldn't have been able to follow that treatment..............."Its in the genes"????????????
Obesity is a cash cow for the whole medical industry.
I brought awareness to them by educating them on that small dietary change! It started as a 30-day challenge! When making changes like that, the threshold is only a few days! We do not realize that if the body is fed the proper nutrients, it is a self-healing machine, but the medical industry has the masses sold on depending on pharmaceuticals to heal, which is a band-aid!
I was once on almost 30 medications because of this practice. Drs don’t even consider if an issue is a side effect. They once wanted me to endure a specific unpleasant therapy (which I refused) for an issue they claimed I had and THAT turned out to be a side effect of a medication as well. I found out later but had stopped taking the medication and the issue disappeared so I looked up the side effects and sure enough it was a listed side effect. Why don’t drs look at this FIRST!?
Sad! The things that I witnessed after 24 years in the medical industry were disgusting! When people would come into our clinic who were morbidly obese, the first question I would ask them is, do you drink soda? They would say 3-4 Big Gulps/day; I would tell them if they quit drinking soda and substitute it for water, they would lose a minimum of 10-15lbs in the first month. When they came back a month later, they lost 15-20 lbs and got off medication for diabetes and blood pressure.
You must have been Very persuasive....Most of the very overweight people I've met, have been so deep in a cycle of depression, they wouldn't have been able to follow that treatment..............."Its in the genes"????????????
Obesity is a cash cow for the whole medical industry.
I brought awareness to them by educating them on that small dietary change! It started as a 30-day challenge! When making changes like that, the threshold is only a few days! We do not realize that if the body is fed the proper nutrients, it is a self-healing machine, but the medical industry has the masses sold on depending on pharmaceuticals to heal, which is a band-aid!
So sad and true.
Oh my! So true!