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I imagine that goes down well at an appointment. Someone you might see once a decade or less giving you lifestyle advice.
by 6d0debc071 11y ago
I imagine that goes down well at an appointment. Someone you might see once a decade or less giving you lifestyle advice.
- brianwawok 11y agoI am sure it is ignored the same as people who are 200 pounds overweight ignore "You need to lose weight" On the other hand, this is awesome. Giving them a concrete goal. A lot easier to say "Walk 30 minutes a day, 7 days a week" than "Exercise more"... go exercise! (Not sure exactly how the cube system works, but it seems more concrete.. maybe it is the exercise version of the calorie?)
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoMost people aren't in a situation where they can go a decade between seeing a doctor (and it's in Quebec, so the American healthcare exceptionalism doesn't apply)
- 6d0debc071 11y agoIf that's the case, then people are much unhealthier on average than I'd assumed. What do they visit about?
- 0xcde4c3db 11y agoThe total number of people with at least one chronic medical condition is pretty huge (possibly even a majority), which gets obscured because we usually only talk about prevalence for individual diseases/disorders.
- 6d0debc071 11y agoThat's a tad worrying. I've found some statements to that effect when I did a search on that last night and some stuff about obesity, do you have any sources giving a breakdown tied to individuals (not names, but like person#whatever has X Y Z) so I'm not double-counting?
- apricot 11y agoOnce a decade? Everyone in my family gets annual checkups from our family doctor.