Meant to make a note of this a while back. Over at PaNu, Kurt Harris was commenting on the similarities between Doug McGruff’s Body by Science’s nutrition approach and Dr. Harris’ PaNu approach.
Check out the whole post; it’s interesting. But one specific item stuck out for me. Dr. McGruff has put out a DVD, and in his post, Dr. Harris shared that at:
one point in the lecture, [Doug McGruff] hints that he does not believe in doing a lot of testing. He says, “if the number is bad, eat healthy, and if the number is good, eat healthy”. What do you need the number for?
Dr. Harris then added this sidebar:
This is profound, actually and I have been meaning to blog on this for a while. I think he is using a heuristic that could, when coupled with having the consumers of health care actually be the ones paying for it, slash our health care costs nationally by more than half, even if everyone kept eating the SAD.
For me, this is less about the policy issue (although the implications are pretty staggering), but it strikes a chord on the wellness/healing front.
No matter the number, eat healthy? Works for me.
Weight Maven is written by Beth Mazur. Beth believes that obesity is more symptom than cause and that the real problem is our modern culture -- especially diet. Beth writes about ancestral health, health policy, & mindfulness. And cats! 
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