Do diets cause eating disorders?
I've seen the claim made many times online, so I looked into it. Surprisingly, best evidence seems to show that if anything, diets REDUCE the risk of eating disorders.
My new piece
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The Rules of Anaesthesia are fantastic. Is there an equivalent for intensive care? If not, what would you include?
www.bmj.com/content/375/... would suggest: Believe nothing, trust no one, give oxygen.
Article by Dr Helen Salisbury. Excerpt here: Last week the Public Accounts Committee produced an excoriating report on the financial sustainability of the NHS in England.1 It criticised the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England for their complacency, lack of ideas, failures in financial planning, and wildly optimistic assumptions about productivity. The stated ambition of these bodies is to improve the nation’s health through three major shifts: from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from treatment to prevention—but how these changes will happen has yet to be elaborated. The shift from treatment to prevention is arguably hampered by the DHSC’s view that providing more resources for prevention is “not a substantive part of the solution.” This is partly right, in that issues such as obesity, inactivity, and poor air quality lie outside the remit of health and require action from other government departments. But money is needed, and this year’s 5% reduction in the public health grant used by local authorities to run services that are directly concerned with preventing ill health (including health visiting and drug and alcohol services) is a concrete example of the mismatch between the ambition to improve prevention and the reality experienced by patients and staff in those services. The DHSC also offers the helpful suggestion that “there is a role for GPs to advise patients” about lifestyle—perhaps being unaware that we already do this, all day, every day, in between treating heart failure, diagnosing cancers, and reassuring the worried well. It’s also worth noting that getting GPs to offer advice on exercise has been shown not to be an effective use of our time.
From this month’s @bmj.com, an astute piece by @helensalisbury.bsky.social on how the government (in this case in England, but applicable elsewhere too) needs to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to preventing ill health.
Link here:
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Ja sej, zato pa gledam pa pametujem, drugače bi že kupila pa brala 😂 Pa še sigurna nisem, da bi kaj razumela. Ne vem, če je tole poljudno! 😂
Tole izgleda izredno kul. Bogve a teli arheologi rabijo kakšnega pucfleka?
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The UK spends
£11.7bn
on healthcare for people in the last year of life. For every £5 of this, £4 is spent in hospital.
Only 11%
(£1.3bn) goes to community and primary healthcare
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END OFLIFE The UK spends £11.7bn on healthcare for people in the last year of life. For every £5 of this, £4 is spent in hospital. Only 11% (£1.3bn) goes to community and primary healthcare [Marie Curie]
The @bmj.com is often a little mischievous in its news section, with bold statements and facts in large letters, but not always with links to the source.
I’ve checked the Marie Curie website and here’s a link to more information:
www.mariecurie.org.uk/blog/public-...
#EOLC
#EndOfLifeCare
#MedSky
Abstiniraj, liverina pa ne jej, kristusbuhintito. Nobene koristi za jetra, večkrat pa vidna škoda. Jaz to najprej vprašam pri povisanih jetrnih testih. A) alkohol in b) prehranski dodatki. Sicer pa držim pesti za uspešno nižanje!
Quick reminder that if you see a headline from a source you’ve never heard of that isn’t being reported by anyone else, you really should do some due diligence before spreading it around as fact. There’s enough misinformation floating around already; no need to add more.
Oglasne "oddaje", v katerih podjetja praviloma predstavljajo različna prehranska dopolnila, se bodo v februarju poslovile s programa enega najbolj poslušanih slovenskih radiev.
Another reminder:
Respiratory infections spread mainly through the air. That’s why they affect the lungs.
Masks, worn correctly and consistently, reduce the spread of respiratory infections.
Respirators work better than masks.
Washing hands isn’t wrong, but it won’t stop airborne transmission.
My marine biologist son Rob has lived on the same island for 7 years, doing painstaking work to improve biodiversity and train local people in conservation. Here’s a new video. Nothing dramatic (he’s not Attenborough and doesn’t have a film crew). Just a healthy coral reef:
youtu.be/2wlk-yfYi9Q?...
From @helensalisbury.bsky.social in the @bmj.com this month.
“The focus on prevention that we’ve been promised in the NHS shouldn’t just be about asking patients to take control of their own health through lifestyle changes…”
Link here:
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
#PublicHealth
#SDOH
#MedSky
BC Mayor has hired its first family doctor for a city-operated medical clinic, looking to hire seven more under the first-in-Canada pilot project. #BCPoli
The family doctors will be paid as community employees, receiving full medical benefits, vacation and a pension
bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-mayor-ge...
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Haven't done this for a while, but this one matters and just maybe 🦋 is still a place for this.
DRC: 406 cases/31 deaths from an undiagnosed respiratory disease, mostly affecting children.
- lab results will take time due to regional instability, specimen collection & logistics, rainy season…
I'd love to be added. I teach family medicine at University of Ljubljana.
Ajme.
James Orbinski, former International President, delivered a speech at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.
25 years ago, Doctors Without Borders was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize.
The prize proceeds were used to establish a fund dedicated to supporting efforts against neglected diseases.
Today, we remain committed to addressing some of the world’s most neglected diseases. #IDSky #MedSky
#Potres ob 3.37 magnitude 3,5 8 km JZ od Škofje Loke. Več na potresi.arso.gov.si Ste čutili potres? Izpolnite potresi.arso.gov.si/vprasalnik
My top 10 SFF of the year are up at @nytimes.com today, with one notable lacuna because I only managed to read it after I filed, so take it from me that METAL FROM HEAVEN absolutely belongs on this list & would have been if I had my shit more together, demonstrating why lists should be taken w/salt
Moje pleme... 🤦♀️
kot študentka v ameriki sem ure in ure zabila na telefonu z zdr. zavarovalnico, čakala na holdu ob možgane parajoči muziki, in se vedno znova prerekala in dokazovala, da so mi dolžni kriti 30 $ za recept. skoraj vsak mesec eno in isto. nekajkrat celo 2-3krat za en in isti recept. 1/
Ob petkih poziram.
Lep pozdrav, 🌶
Tole je pa kar next level, a? 😳
I think it would be a good idea
I honestly believe all LLM results should come with a disclaimer reminding people that the thing doesn’t (and absolutely cannot) know any facts or do any reasoning; it is simply designed to *sound* like it knows facts and frequently sweeps some up accidentally in the process.
We don't need more remakes of old movies. We need more MUPPETS remakes of old movies.
Starši prodajajo, če išče kdo kaj podobnega. Cenim kakšno poobjavo ali dve. :)
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Blood test that can screen for 50+ cancers now for sale, at $2,099 www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Dr Eddy Lang: "The problem as I see it is that the test has not yet been proven to improve patient outcomes."
Yep, I'm DEEPLY skeptical. Anxiety. Over-diagnosis. Iatrogenic injury. Increased costs.
