Never had a mammogram; no reason to subject oneself to questionable diagnostic studies without symptoms, no family history, healthy diet and attitude, and no solid statistical evidence that the screening actually does more good than harm.
If the ACS wanted to reduce can ver risk, they would be screaming for regenerative organic farming, a far more vegetarian diet, stress reduction practices, cleaning up our air and water, and a healthy, positive mindset that prioritizes an attitude of resiliency over a focus on fear and dependency (on the system to find our problems and then take care of us afterwords).
Make no mistake: I fully and completely support prevention! It’s just that I define prevention as engaging in the deep work necessary to promote success, well ahead of time so that problems don’t arise in the first place. Being lazy and setting the stage for disaster, then examining the lifeboats for signs of leaks while the ship wanders into a field of icebergs, is reaction masquerading as prevention in my book.
But I am totally baffled by the section about native american populations having no drop in death rate due to being "underserved." Isn't the whole piece about how the ACS is artificially driving down morbidity stats by aggressive screening and overdiagnosis?
Seems to me these folks have enough problems being served poisoned food. Lack of mammograms may be the least of their problems
I never trusted the ACS and never will.
Never had a mammogram; no reason to subject oneself to questionable diagnostic studies without symptoms, no family history, healthy diet and attitude, and no solid statistical evidence that the screening actually does more good than harm.
If the ACS wanted to reduce can ver risk, they would be screaming for regenerative organic farming, a far more vegetarian diet, stress reduction practices, cleaning up our air and water, and a healthy, positive mindset that prioritizes an attitude of resiliency over a focus on fear and dependency (on the system to find our problems and then take care of us afterwords).
Make no mistake: I fully and completely support prevention! It’s just that I define prevention as engaging in the deep work necessary to promote success, well ahead of time so that problems don’t arise in the first place. Being lazy and setting the stage for disaster, then examining the lifeboats for signs of leaks while the ship wanders into a field of icebergs, is reaction masquerading as prevention in my book.
Good piece.
But I am totally baffled by the section about native american populations having no drop in death rate due to being "underserved." Isn't the whole piece about how the ACS is artificially driving down morbidity stats by aggressive screening and overdiagnosis?
Seems to me these folks have enough problems being served poisoned food. Lack of mammograms may be the least of their problems