10 ‘secrets’ you shouldn’t keep from your doctor
Do you remember the scene in the movie “Something’s Gotta Give” where Jack Nicholson’s character lies about Viagra to a doctor in the emergency room?
via 10 ‘secrets’ you shouldn’t keep from your doctor – CNN.com.
Admit it, you’ve gone to the doctor and either lied (or failed to admit) some sort of behavior or problem. We all have. One of the stories in this article scared me, though:
“I once had a patient who literally died of embarrassment,” Rackner says. “She had blood in her stool, but she was too embarrassed to tell her doctor. A year later she was in terrible abdominal pain, and did go see her doctor. It was colon cancer, and it had spread to other parts of her body.” The patient came to see Rackner, but it was too late to do surgery. She died six months later.
Embarrassment is preferable to dying, I think.
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What’s Eating Our Kids? Fears About ‘Bad’ Foods
The New York Times has a story about children who are becoming fearful of “bad food” because of parents who overemphasize the importance of eating healthy. While we eat mostly organic food and very little meat, we do not restrict any foods from our children’s diet. We want them to be familiar with all kinds of foods out there and not be fearful, but know the difference between what’s good and what’s ok in moderation (i.e. cookies, chocolate, pizza, etc.) . My sister, on the other hand, is almost paranoid when it comes to her only son’s diet. If it’s conventional food (non-organic) it’s almost poisonous in her eyes.
Is this a good thing, or the start of an unhealthy attitude towards food?
While scarcely any expert would criticize parents for paying attention to children’s diets, many doctors, dietitians and eating disorder specialists worry that some parents are becoming overzealous, even obsessive, in efforts to engender good eating habits in children. With the best of intentions, these parents may be creating an unhealthy aura around food.
via What’s Eating Our Kids? Fears About ‘Bad’ Foods – NYTimes.com.
photo credit: Lotzman Katzman
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