Went pretty well for some people today.
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The thing that makes him most hateable is that there are things about public health that most of us in mainstream healthcare agree with him about. The US food supply is a mess. People are not active enough. Everything that ails you cannot be fixed with a pill. People should be involved in their own health.
Instead of building on those areas of agreement, he went right for the BS crap like vaccines, seed oil/tallow, fluoride, food dyes* etc. He wants to prove he can win battles more than he wants to improve health.
*no, I don't think food dyes are likely healthy. But, their input in our health issues is miniscule vs the other stuff.
Yes!
Exercise!
Get high fructose corn syrup out of everything
A kid’s meal is about the right number of calories or portion sizes for most adults for lunch
Stop smoking
Absolutely people should be involved in their own health. I was just talking with a patient on Thursday who has achieved an A1c under 6. He thanked me. I told him that all I really did was provide the tools, he did the work, that he was highly motivated and that was 90% of it. I wish I had 1500 patients like him.
But there ARE meds that decrease cardiovascular risk and SOME people should be on them. We know that a few classes of antihypertensives decrease the risk of stroke, heart attack, heart failure, and kidney disease when used to treat hypertension if we achieve targets. We also know that statins decrease cardiovascular risk. The benefit in secondary prevention has been known for a long time and more recently we have become more certain of benefits in primary prevention in high risk populations. We have DM meds now with both cardio and renal protective effects. Yet this idiot continues to sew antipharma distrust.
I can’t tell you how many patients I have here in Northern Michigan that say they don’t trust big pharma but they smoke and apparently trust big tobacco.
Stillwater Townie
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Crass hypocrites rule.
Polds4OSU
Marshall
How its going
Former Missouri Republican House Speaker John Diehl received sentenced to prison for COVID relief fraud
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., (AP) — A former Missouri House speaker was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud for misusing federal COVID-19 relief funds for his personal benefit.
Former Republican House Speaker John Diehl received about $380,000 in federal loans for his law firm between 2020 and 2022 through a program intended to help cover operating expenses for businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
But Diehl admitted in a September plea agreement that he instead used the money for personal expenses, including country club dues, swimming pool maintenance, his home mortgage and vehicle payments for a Tesla, Audi and Jeep. Prosecutors said he used more than half the money to fund his law firm's defined benefit plan, of which he was the only participant, and also paid off a civil settlement related to his time as state House speaker.
Diehl resigned as House speaker in 2015 after The Kansas City Star reported that he had exchanged sexually suggestive text messages with a college student serving as a Capitol intern. At the time, Diehl acknowledged “making a serious error in judgment by sending the text messages.”
In 2023, the Missouri Ethics Commission imposed a roughly $47,000 fine on Diehl for campaign finance violations, including allegations that he used nearly $6,800 of campaign funds to pay for personal expenses.
