Science is giving us unique opportunities to leverage diet in health… By adjusting food nutrients, the diet choices we make could play a prominent role in mitigating disease by identifying people at risk for certain conditions like cancer and using nutrition as a tool for chemoprevention.
Standing in the way: the FDA, which won’t let General Mills tell you that Cheerios can help lower bad cholesterol.
Do you need to have high cholesterol to take a cholesterol drug? Apparently not.
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This is from the Wall Street Journal:
Mr. Obama and his advisers believe in implementing "best practices" that physicians and hospitals should follow…. [Yet,] conclusions about what works and what doesn't work change much too quickly for policy makers to dictate clinical practice.
Continue reading Should the Federal Government Encourage Doctors to Follow “Best Practices?”
This is from the Wall Street Journal:
Beginning last year, [AmeriGas Propane Inc.] mandated that all employees would have to get physical exams, blood-pressure checks and cholesterol and blood-sugar tests. Women also were required to get Pap smears, and mammograms for those 40 and older.
Workers and their covered spouses have a year to complete the tests, which are covered 100%, or lose their insurance. And they need to keep getting the checkups, at least every two years, in order to retain the health benefits.
