Lifestyle Medicine | Fellow Online Lecture Series

Joy English, MD, shares a lecture on Lifestyle Medicine as part of the AMSSM National Fellow Online Lecture Series. The session was moderated by Matthew Wise, DO.

[@jonr6680]

Wow this speaker was so clear & so engaging. I was listening to every word. Sadly I stopped halfway for a snack. But one step at a time!

[@jonr6680]

Finished the vid. As a layman it's mind-blowing that only 3pc of folks get it right... And even doctors are not always saints of wellbeing! But I guess the evidential reality is everywhere. Lifestyle education as treatment is super important clearly. What is less wholesome is ... Where do the multiple toxic influences come from in the first place? No organisation even the gov has the power to influence enough people - and clearly something is seriously wrong with the education system and culture. Of course the consumerism lazy boy pizza beer & TV, auto everything, drive everywhere 'culture' is the root cause - the tribe of normalised obesity is the herd animal drive to not stand out for fear of rejection by peers. In that context, most medical trained staff are a world apart and so building trust with patients must be tough... But equally no amount of well meaning advice is going to beat the toxic environment that most people live in, with ice-cream makers a few steps away... As laudable as this adult education is, to fix the future needs to start with the KIDS. Stop them falling into the tarpit of destiny NOW before it's too late.

[@freeian2]

"A society should be judged by how it treats their children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperiling its future." January 9, 2023-I believe it was. The updated obesity guidelines for pediatrics was released (3 months prior they increased pediatric BMI from 30s to 60 as most kids weren't fitting on growth chart). Obese kids under 12 receive GLP-1. Obese kids over 13 consider bariatric surgery. This was based upon data stating bariatric surgery for 16-19 yo was just as safe for 13-15 yo (it was out of Colorado). Kids menu: hamburger, hot dog, mac n cheese, french fries-we treat our children like trash. It has been normalized. Man has performed too many evils in this world-slavery, holocaust. Now, we have created a food system that if one partakes then an early death is a guarantee. And for what? A false profit. The food system in this country is creating disease at a rate of health care spending we will never recover. Congress won't pass bills for foreign aid yet we spent an estimated $400 billion alone on diabetes last year-and congress chastises social media for killing kids. Please have the b*lls to take to it to the fast/processed food companies. It is going to take nothing less than a Boston Tea Party effort whereupon the country states we're sick of being sick. Folks have to imagine a world of health not illness. I have the lecture cued up for the morning run. Look forward to a Lifestyle Medicine lecture. Saw a 15 yo last week with knee pain. Short stature, grossly obese (as was parental figure)-xrays with almost complete loss of the medial compartment complemented with marginal osteophytes. Joint replacement in the 20's could be a reality. But its genetics...be well y'all.

[@curtis1732]

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