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		<title>&#8220;When diet doesn&#8217;t work&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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Here is a graphic illustration of the concept of moral hazard as applied to the drug treatment of lifestyle diseases.
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Reprinted from AdWatch

Many studies confirm that doctors’ behaviour can be influenced by drug advertising, but many of them are unaware of this.
Not only the advertising text, but also the images play an important part.
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		<title>MY FAITH IN SWEET SCIENCE IS DOUBLE-BLIND</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those chiropractors certainly look like willfully ignorant charlatans but some medical doctors are also guilty of the same unwillingness to perform or abide by the results of randomized trials. For example angioplasty of coronary arteries for &#8220;treating&#8221; stable angina (chest pain caused by inadequate blood flow to the heart during exercise) has been shown in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=987&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eat less, live long</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<title>&#8216;The Heart Truth&#8217; for both men and women</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/the-heart-truth%e2%80%99-for-both-men-and-women-national-post-26-feb-2009-page-a13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unilever, the maker of Becel margarine, would like us to believe that Becel is a health food; the more you eat the better. To that end Unilever contributes $millions to various cardiovascular and dietetic organization who reciprocate by putting the Becel logo on their literature and web sites.
There is no such thing as a healthy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=852&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Atherogenic Football Diet</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/the-athletic-atherogenic-diet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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Who are the coaches and &#8220;nutritionists&#8221; that advise football players to eat atherogenic, obesogenic , diabetogenic, hypertensogenic diets just so they can trample the opposing team? They should be banned from the game.
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By Madison Park
CNN

(CNN) &#8211; Football players guzzle protein shakes, down steaks and lift weights. They train and gain weight, hoping to build mass under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=824&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Every disease is &#8220;genetic&#8221;. So what?</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/every-disease-is-genetic-so-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every disease is caused by some combination of nature and nurture, genetic susceptibility and the environment, especially nutrition. Fortunately, most of the common fatal diseases and those costing the most to the disease care system are mostly environmentally caused. Attempts to find a simple genetic cause for atherosclerosis, hypertension, obesity and Type 2 diabetes were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=818&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Marketing by &#8220;Study&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/drug-marketing-by-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jacques Genest]]></category>
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		<title>Cardiac disease threatens diabetics</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/cardiac-disease-threatens-diabetics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Terrence Ruddy, chief of cardiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, says the increasing number of people with diabetes is a major concern across the medical profession.
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		<title>JUPITER is a gas giant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent article by André Picard in today&#8217;s Globe and Mail, the only story on JUPITER I have seen in the lay press that reveals the massive fraud behind the reporting of this &#8220;study&#8221;.
JUPITER is aptly named. It&#8217;s gigantic. Probably the largest, most expensive drug trial in history. When one looks below the surface of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=705&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Health&#8221; spending in Canada hits $172-billion, outpacing inflation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drugs now cost more than doctors and the cost is rising faster than inflation. Sooner or later this insanity has to end. Probably sooner. With a likely world-wide depression in the next few years there will be awakening awareness that most of those expensive branded drugs, such as Lipitor and Crestor, are for lifestyle diseases, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=649&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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