Good read: globalnews.ca/news/1379758/please-stop-telling-obese-canadians-to-give-up/ From the article: I would argue that obesity is likely a spectrum of diseases. Like any spectrum of disease there is a spectrum of causes and a spectrum of treatment. Think about cancer for a moment. To pool all cancers into one group and see them as all caused by one entity is not only simplistic but dangerous. How would we function as a medical community if everyone with cancer got the same treatment for all cancers regardless of cause and organ affected? What if I treated my patients with lung cancer, colon cancer and breast cancer all with the exact same chemotherapy? Certainly I’d get some responders, (especially if the chemotherapy I chose was targeted to their specific cancer). But inevitably if I took this “blanket approach” to a diverse disease I would only effectively treat a specific group of people. #AMEN
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 14:24:55 +0000
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