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UPDATE: 30 April -  

Pro golfer targets diabetes

The Diabetes Diary

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, Associated Press – Fri Apr 29, 7:30 pm ET

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Professional golfer Notah Begay III is fighting the growing problem of diabetes among Native-American youth, saying the disease could ultimately cost tribes their future leaders if nothing is done.

Begay took his wellness message to the airwaves Friday during the national Native America Calling radio program and in a television show that was broadcast via satellite to students in nearly 200 schools across Indian Country.

Part Navajo and part pueblo Indian, the 38-year-old golfer said diabetes has become an epidemic among his people but he wants people to know it's a disease that can be prevented.

"We're in a fight, literally, to save our kids' lives," he told The Associated Press in an interview. "The reassuring thing about this entire thing is that this is a fight we can win, but it's not going to come without some monumental change."

Native Americans are more than twice as likely to have diabetes compared with other groups, and they are three times more likely to die from the disease, according to the Indian Health Service.  Complete Article

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Health Care Myths

In the mid 1990s I started adding a factoid to the informational pamphlet I produced for CHI (Creating Health Institute).   It was not a new fact but on that I had been aware of for a long time.  In reviewing information about this new book, that piece of information is still true now, just as it was then and in preceeding years.


That piece of information, according to a study completed at the Harvard School of Public Health, tells us that just 20% of medical care in use is effective.


As Big PhRMA grabs profits first and leaves your health at risk, while Big Insurance tells doctors  and other providers what care you are allowed to have, we can truly see why health care in the US ranks so low (37).

Health Care Myth

"In America, there is no guarantee that any individual will receive high-quality care for any particular health problem. The healthcare industry is plagued with overutilization of  services, underutilization of services and errors in  healthcare practice." 

– Elizabeth A. McGlynn, PhD, Rand Corporation researcher, and colleagues. (Elizabeth A. McGlynn, PhD; Steven M. Asch, MD, MPH; et al. "The Quality of Healthcare Delivered to Adults in the United States," New England Journal of Medicine 2003;348:2635-2645.)

Why we rank low in healthcare

Questioning the unquestionable
The problem is that physicians don't know what they're doing. That is how David Eddy, MD, PhD, a healthcare economist and senior advisor for health policy and management for Kaiser Permanente, put the problem in a Business Week cover story about how much of healthcare delivery is not based on science. Plenty of proof backs up Eddy's glib-sounding remark.

The plain fact is that many clinical decisions made by physicians appear to be arbitrary, uncertain and variable. Reams of research point to the same finding: physicians looking at the same thing will disagree with each other, or even with themselves, from 10 percent to 50 percent of the time during virtually every aspect of the medical-care process—from taking a medical history to doing a physical examination, reading a laboratory test, performing a pathological diagnosis and recommending a treatment. Physician judgment is highly variable.

You can get better care but you do have to demand it.  To demand it you have to know the "right" questions to ask and you have to know your rights in health care.

For 20 years CHI has been offering numerous programs in the community and corporate wellness programs, as well as college sponsored workshops addressing these problems.  The programs we developed especially for senior citizens were always SRO.

Learning more about exactly what's happening in health care is important.  And learning what you can do to prevent most health concerns is CHI's primary focus.  Natural Health Care Education from an expert who just happens to be a health care professional is what you'll find when you sponsor one of our programs or workshops in your area.

Diabetes Diary

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In support of The Longest Walk III to Reverse Diabetes, especially for our Indian communities and people, Creating Health Institute has developed The Diabetes Diary.

Daily posts now published as a book - The Diabetes Diary

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