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bitchkitty

(7,349 posts)
61. My doctor is not better informed than me
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 12:20 PM
Feb 2013

when it comes to nutrition. He's not better informed on a lot of things, come to think of it. In fact, he's been rather useless these past few years. He's very good at billing me, though.

Not the first study to confirm this. onehandle Jan 2013 #1
Yes, but Mythbusters confirms that vegetarian farts smell worse! TheDebbieDee Jan 2013 #51
File this under: obvious! Crowman1979 Jan 2013 #2
I will mark my one year anniversary as a Vegan at chervilant Jan 2013 #3
Congratulations! bitchkitty Feb 2013 #60
Thank you, so much! chervilant Feb 2013 #74
10 year veg here! tblue Jan 2013 #4
So if your blood pressure and cholesterol are normal pscot Jan 2013 #5
I am a vegetarian, but my blood pressure and cholesterol are high. RebelOne Jan 2013 #20
Dairy has lots of fat. Doremus Jan 2013 #25
That's weird FunkyLeprechaun Jan 2013 #6
see my post #7 srican69 Jan 2013 #9
Don't EVER listen to doctors when it comes to diet. pangaia Jan 2013 #16
Don't EVER listen to people telling you not to listen to doctors WestCoastLib Jan 2013 #19
Most MDs have zero nutrition instruction. Doremus Jan 2013 #26
I agree 100%. pangaia Jan 2013 #35
MDs and vets have almost zero nutrition education obamanut2012 Jan 2013 #32
I must disagree with your last two sentences. pangaia Jan 2013 #33
I don't think they teach much about nutrition in regular medical school. Arugula Latte Jan 2013 #50
My doctor is not better informed than me bitchkitty Feb 2013 #61
then it is your fault for sticking with said useless doctor dbackjon Feb 2013 #79
I wish it were that easy. bitchkitty Feb 2013 #80
Vitamin B-12 Babel_17 Jan 2013 #24
I am a vegetarian and take B-12 every day RebelOne Feb 2013 #65
Huh, I found some food for thought Babel_17 Feb 2013 #81
Two things here obamanut2012 Jan 2013 #31
Good point. pangaia Jan 2013 #34
Just like with meat eaters, it's the "easy" way to eat obamanut2012 Jan 2013 #44
lifelong Veg here ... srican69 Jan 2013 #7
Nope. Doremus Jan 2013 #27
This isn't true. kwassa Jan 2013 #40
Nope. Far more complicated than that. Doremus Jan 2013 #53
Where is your proof that oil is inflammatory? kwassa Jan 2013 #55
You are so totally wrong. RebelOne Feb 2013 #66
Sorry, the "fats cause heart disease" theory is wrong. Zoeisright Feb 2013 #76
"Bottom line - your genes matter much more than your diet." Scout Feb 2013 #68
Makes sense... cholesterol is found in animal products FBaggins Jan 2013 #8
Yes, but no difference in mortality rates for other diseases (NIH) frazzled Jan 2013 #10
Or the overall mortality rate slackmaster Jan 2013 #13
Ah - real numbers at last. The most absurd thing about medical reporting is the asinine relative dmallind Jan 2013 #18
frazz RILib Jan 2013 #23
Been a Vegetarian about 5 years. snort Jan 2013 #11
Your brain loves cholesterol Viva_La_Revolution Jan 2013 #12
There are other risks to remember dogman Jan 2013 #14
Some DUers go all freeper hippy puncher on vegetarians and vegans whatchamacallit Jan 2013 #15
The only solution is customerserviceguy Jan 2013 #30
Yet the "meat eaters" are much more prone mzteris Jan 2013 #37
Let's face it customerserviceguy Jan 2013 #38
I became vegetarian mzteris Jan 2013 #39
I'm sure that nastiness customerserviceguy Jan 2013 #42
Nothing especially new here. pangaia Jan 2013 #17
great story sweetapogee Jan 2013 #21
Statistics can be misleading Babel_17 Jan 2013 #22
Heart disease is one thing, overall morbidity and mortality another. thereismore Jan 2013 #28
I manage to make up the difference roody Jan 2013 #29
I WENT VEG.. Capobvious Jan 2013 #36
Veganism is much healthier than vegetarianism. kwassa Jan 2013 #41
I eat at least one egg yolk a day nobodyspecial Feb 2013 #72
most cholesterol is manufactured in our body ... kwassa Feb 2013 #75
But cuts the will to live 64% AngryAmish Jan 2013 #43
False obamanut2012 Jan 2013 #45
true Scout Jan 2013 #54
You just showed you have no idea what a vegetarian diet is obamanut2012 Jan 2013 #58
and i was agreeing with said poster, that a vegetarian diet Scout Feb 2013 #59
And we're free to say that an omnivorous diet yewberry Feb 2013 #62
no one said you weren't. Scout Feb 2013 #67
Oh, no, too funny! yewberry Feb 2013 #69
why yes, i did realize you were being a parrot! Scout Feb 2013 #70
Sorry. nick of time Jan 2013 #46
Do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war, Redfairen? slackmaster Jan 2013 #47
I'm a vegan but you have to eat really nutritious foods leftyladyfrommo Jan 2013 #48
DUH!!!! bitchkitty Jan 2013 #49
Wow justa guy Jan 2013 #52
I'll take my chances with meat dbackjon Jan 2013 #56
Also, nothing in article to indicate if they looked at types of meat dbackjon Jan 2013 #57
Not only that.... laundry_queen Feb 2013 #77
Very true dbackjon Feb 2013 #78
GOP plans to enshrine meat as amendment to constitution... Evasporque Feb 2013 #63
No shit! graywarrior Feb 2013 #64
Yeah, but you just die of boredom. Beacool Feb 2013 #71
If there were a big effect, it would be obvious FarCenter Feb 2013 #73
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