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Musings on Things We Know

Musings on Things We Know. We've been led to believe: Pi Semi Micron Hemisphere. Many things are complex and actually may not be as they appear. 1. Obesity's Big Two : Diet and Exercise.

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Musings on Things We Know

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  1. Musings on Things We Know

  2. We've been led to believe: Pi Semi Micron Hemisphere

  3. Many things are complex and actually may not be as they appear

  4. 1 Obesity's Big Two: Diet and Exercise

  5. Obesity starts before birth, maybe before conception; the Big Two have little long-term effect There are ten putative causes of obesity for which there is as much evidence as for the Big Two

  6. Microorganisms Epigenetics Increasing maternal age Greater fecundity among people with higher adiposity Assortative mating Sleep debt Endocrine disruptors Pharmaceutical iatrogenesis (conditions arising from medical treatment) Reduction in variability of ambient temperatures Intrauterine and intergenerational effectshttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19960394

  7. 2 Healthcare's Challenge: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention to Reduce Chronic Illness

  8. Save a person from a chronic illness, it is likely the person will eventually die of another Saving lives increases long-term healthcare costs but has supreme ethical value

  9. 3 Flu's Big Threat: Without “the Shot” and Clean Hands We Are at Risk

  10. What failed to work in 1918-19 continues to fail today Transmission is by breathing and inoculation has little effect in the most susceptible subpopulations

  11. 4 The Promiseof Climate Change: Fewer Winter Deaths and More Food

  12. High temperatures are less conducive to high biomass production Equatorial deserts on land and in sea are expanding; crops in temperate zones are failing

  13. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_288362.pdfhttp://www.dshs.state.tx.us/uploadedImages/Content/Chief_Operating_Officer/chs/vstat/Hotcolddths/month0308.gifhttp://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2008003/article/10648/c-g/figure05.jpghttp://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_288362.pdfhttp://www.dshs.state.tx.us/uploadedImages/Content/Chief_Operating_Officer/chs/vstat/Hotcolddths/month0308.gifhttp://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2008003/article/10648/c-g/figure05.jpg Populations in cold nations normally suffer few cold-associated deaths, and heat is a worse threat

  14. http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/daily-mortality-rates-in-15-european-cities-by-apparent-temperature-in-summer-time/image_xlargehttp://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/daily-mortality-rates-in-15-european-cities-by-apparent-temperature-in-summer-time/image_xlarge

  15. 5 Healthcare Costs Depend on Demand: We Can Provide Better Care for Less Money

  16. Oligopolies (markets with few suppliers) mean high prices; $1 spent on healthcare is $1 earned The healthcare system will spend every $ it is given; suppliers have power to demand more

  17. 6 Medical Marijuana Market: Licensees Will Provide Product Choice at Reasonable Cost

  18. Oligopolies are again bound to generate higher prices and choice is likely to be limited Prior to legalization, captured product could provide all that is required at essentially no cost

  19. 7 Heart Disease Can Be Controlled: Lifestyle, lifestyle, lifestyle

  20. Inflammation is a major physiological factor Many chronic illnesses have proven to be caused by infectious agents as may happen with CVD

  21. 8 VaccinationControls Illnesses: More Complete Immunization Could Wipe Out Many Diseases

  22. Incidence of many diseases dropped BEFORE vaccines Some vaccines work very well, but other techniques can be essential

  23. 9 The War on Drugs: More Enforcement Will Eliminate Drug Use

  24. Drugs endanger democracy • There is increasing evidence that the war on drugs has failed • To deal with drugs as a one-dimensional, law-and-order issue is to miss the point • If the expected result was that we would eliminate serious drug use...and eliminate the narco-trafficking...it hasn’t worked • Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself WHO has recognized the WoD has failed and, in fact, been counter-productive States with legalized drugs have not fallen apart

  25. Blame: education role models economic incentives fuzzy thinking jumping to conclusions desire for explanation common knowledge common sense *

  26. What does spending the last 10 years of life in sickness really means?

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