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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>Yves Bolduc &#8211; Minister of Health and Drug Salesman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On learning that Quebec spends much more per capita on drugs than the Canadian average, Yves Bolduc, Quebec&#8217;s Minister of Health and Social Services, proclaimed that he wanted everyone to know that this was GOOD NEWS and that he was happy to see that Quebec was ahead of the other provinces. He added that in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=936&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 3, 2009
By DUFF WILSON

BOSTON — In a first-year pharmacology class at Harvard Medical School, Matt Zerden grew wary as the professor promoted the benefits of cholesterol drugs and seemed to belittle a student who asked about side effects.
Mr. Zerden later discovered something by searching online that he began sharing with his classmates. The professor was not only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=868&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Heart Truth&#8217; for both men and women</title>
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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>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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		<title>Men, not women, out of work</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/men-out-of-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real issue here is the proliferation of moral rot in American society which will inevitably spread to all capitalist economies, Canada included. At present the only growing American industries are junk food and &#8220;health care&#8221;, industries that employ mostly women. Obese, junk-food addicted Americans are obsessed with the mirage that diseases caused by self-destructive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=779&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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.
“The increasing number with diabetes is directly related to the increasing number with obesity,” he says. “We have an epidemic of obesity in young and older people. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=743&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JUPITER is a gas giant</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/jupiter-is-a-gas-giant/</link>
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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>Disaster! Americans stop taking Lipitor.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I predicted many years ago that the exorbitant cost of drugs for lifestyle diseases would at some point destroy the cherished American ideal of unlimited consumption. It has happened a lot sooner than even I thought. The same attitude that powered the myth of free money and endless consumption of houses and goods is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=690&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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