Since last year’s lockdown, I have been doing grocery and drugstore runs for my immediate and extended family. It never fails to shock me, the staggering cost of maintenance medication for diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, uric acid and cholesterol.
These medications can buy time till you get better enough to get off them, but that is hardly ever discussed during a consult.
“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food,” observed writer, environmental activist and farmer Wendell Berry.
In this year’s Truth about Weight Loss summit, Dr. Steven Lawenda noted: “Of those …
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