Friedman Blames George Bush for Tea Party Movement, Patients Still Expect to See Physician Despite Cost, and Betting on Weight Loss Not Successful
Study: 79.5% of patients fully expect to see a physician rather than another provider, regardless of their condition and regardless of the additional cost.
People who wager on their ability to lose weight lose the bet 80% of the time.
Hard to believe the finding on wagering about weight loss. How could people be so wrong in their ability to predict their own actions?
I like David Friedman’s observation. He’s absolutely right.
If it doesn’t affect what I have to pay, why wouldn’t I try to see the world’s foremost specialist for whatever problem I have whenever I have it, regardless of cost? It’s a no brainer.
I agree about Bush.
People bet on weight loss in hopes that it will be a further motivating factor to lose weight. But, weight loss occurs one pound at a time from exercise and restricting calories. That takes more willpower than merely betting you can lose weight over a given period.
Jen, you have made some AMAZING changes in your life this year. You have bemoce even more positive, healthy, and strong. Your own positive life changes have helped me stay on track with my own. Keep rocking it, girl! In addition to the anonymous comment, I’d like to share some words that inspire me to keep progressing and not let it stop:Many of the bodily changes we associate with aging have nothing to do with aging per se. Decreased muscle mass and increased fat may be normal in this culture, but these conditions are not necessarily natural-and we needn’t expect them. They are caused by inactivity, accompanied by a mindset that expects us to grow weaker as we age. As we have seen, the physical condition of sixty-year old Tarahumara runners was *better* than that of the twenty-year olds. From Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom by Christiane Northrup, M.D., ch. 18.ALSO:To exercise actually means to bring into action. When we exercise, we bring into action our ancestral memories. Our bodies remember that we lived in trees and forests. We need to crawl and climb and run if we are to develop our intellectual, emotional, and spiritual capacities . We tend to think of exercise as losing weight, as trimming off the fat. But to exercise is to enable the body to remember its past, so that it can stretch out wiht all its intertwined powers of being and thought and reflection.From The Universe Is a Green Dragon by Brian Swimme, physicist.