Talk:Open Source Medicine

I can't figure out how to get the wiki to display a stub for the New Treatments page, so you can click thru to see the full article. (It can't be displayed in one column, because the da Vinci image doesn't fit, but resizing the da Vinci image kills the impact.) --Balatro 19:54, 20 May 2010 (CEST)

Preventive medicine/ Public health

Medicine is not just about diagnosis and treatment – what about compliance and prevention? How does a culture make people eat more healthily, for example?
We sorta have the answers to Alzheimer's (meditation and turmeric), cancer (anti-angiogenic foods, garlic, turmeric), osteoporosis (weightbearing exercise, calcium and vitamin D), cardiovascular disease (omega-3, avoiding saturated fat, exercise), type-II diabetes (exercise, avoiding sugar), lung cancer (the obvious) and other degenerative diseases.
Healthcare could be massively unburdened by a change in attitude, by people taking more responsibility. But people don't. A world where people eat a lot of fruit and vegetables, exercise two hours a week and meditate would be a world with maybe a quarter as much degenerative disease. I do not currently have any particular suggestions on how this might be achieved.