As President Obama is looking for ways to improve the quality and financial aspects of medicine in the United States, he has now nominated Dr. Regina Benjamin for the job of Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Benjamin is a rural physician from Alabama. She first came onto the national scene when her clinic in Bayou la Batre, Alabama, was first destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and then burned down after being rebuilt. She is a recipient of the 2008 MacArthur Foundation’s so-called “genious grant”, a half-million dollar grant given to people who make a difference in the world. There is no doubt that Dr. Benjamin has the know-how and will have the resources to take action on all sorts of health issues in the country. The question is how much cooperation we, the public, and we, the public health professionals, can give her.
Losing weight as a nation should be our Manhattan Project, something we can all rally behind and contribute to. Drop the rate of obesity and we drop the rates of heart disease, diabetes, and maybe even cancer. Get smokers to quit and the rates of lung disease (and the loss of productivity) drop dramatically. Help drug users get clean, and we get rid of crime. Teach effective sexual health, and there will be less unwanted pregnancies (in turn, less abortions, less sexually transmitted diseases). The list goes on and on…
Dr. Benjamin and others in leadership positions in Public Health will need all the help they can get from the American public and those of us in Public Health. After all, you can take the horse to the water, but you can’t make it drink… Unless you trick it into losing weight.
I dunno….does anyone else see a problem here? Should the Surgeon General be a role model for a healthy lifestyle? What if she was a smoker? Am I just being too nitpicky?
What do you think? So many questions.
#75, Confederate Traitor,
Geeze man, you are totally fucked up. You take passages from a book you haven’t read. Instead you rely upon someone else for their interpretation and then you twist the words to suit your schizoid mind.
What about the first 500 pages? Were they filled with qualifying material? Aahhh, you don’t have a fucking clue.
Then, to explain it all, you go flying off on multiple tangents. You use blogs, opinions, and youtube for sources.
When someone proposes something to counter the proved effects of Climate Change you start ranting about how the Over-Government is in charge of all this.
They are ideas, worthy of discussion for the good that may, or may not, come of them. They provide a learning experience for all. For example, seeding the upper atmosphere with sulfur will never fly. Simply because as it joins with moisture in the atmosphere in the presence of ozone, WILL create sulfuric Acid. BUT it is an idea worthy of thought. Maybe something other than sulfur could be used.
As far as I’m concerned, someone is thinking about it. I would be more worried if no one was. There are too many questions about our own atmosphere we don’t know the answers to.
And I bet you believe there is a massive cover-up of aliens in Roswell New Mexico too. And the CIA got Kennedy. And Foster was murdered to cover up illegalities by Hillary. 9/11 was a Bush operation to take over the government. The black helicopters are coming for you.
Mr. Fusion
It is not the motives, it is the methods which are in question. Poisoning the population to reduce both the numbers and the lifespan is criminal.
It is not just here, John Porritt Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers believes the population must fall to 30 million.
http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5950442.ece
BTW, Kennedy was assassinated because he was pulling the teeth of the FEDERAL RESERVE.
http://middleeast.org/comments/1/5672.shtml
I consider Kennedy the last REAL President this country elected.
As a product of the public fool system you were robbed of a History education. Here is a brief primmer.
Operation Himmler – http://911review.com/precedent/century/himmler.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Himmler
WWII – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionist_Zionism http://just-another-inside-job.blogspot.com/2009/04/secret-holocaust.html
Gulf of Tonkin – http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident
The Attack on the USS Liberty – http://911review.com/precedent/century/liberty.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
Operation Northwoods – http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/northwoods.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods http://911review.com/precedent/century/northwoods.html
Operation Ajax – http://911review.com/precedent/century/ajax.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_ajax http://lewrockwell.com/latulippe/latulippe41.html
Operation Gladio – http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/gladio.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio http://911review.com/precedent/century/gladio.html
As a product of the public fool system you were robbed of a History education. Here is a brief primmer.
Operation Himmler – http://911review.com/precedent/century/himmler.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Himmler
WWII – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionist_Zionism http://just-another-inside-job.blogspot.com/2009/04/secret-holocaust.html
Gulf of Tonkin – http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident
The Attack on the USS Liberty – http://911review.com/precedent/century/liberty.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
Operation Northwoods – http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/northwoods.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods http://911review.com/precedent/century/northwoods.html
Operation Ajax – http://911review.com/precedent/century/ajax.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_ajax http://lewrockwell.com/latulippe/latulippe41.html
Operation Gladio – http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/gladio.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio http://911review.com/precedent/century/gladio.html
Operation Northwoods – http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/northwoods.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods http://911review.com/precedent/century/northwoods.html
Operation Ajax – http://911review.com/precedent/century/ajax.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_ajax http://lewrockwell.com/latulippe/latulippe41.html
Operation Northwoods – http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/northwoods.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods http://911review.com/precedent/century/northwoods.html
Operation Ajax – http://911review.com/precedent/century/ajax.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_ajax http://lewrockwell.com/latulippe/latulippe41.html
Operation Gladio – http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/gladio.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio http://911review.com/precedent/century/gladio.html
Operation Ajax – http://911review.com/precedent/century/ajax.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_ajax http://lewrockwell.com/latulippe/latulippe41.html
Operation Gladio – http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/gladio.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio http://911review.com/precedent/century/gladio.html
On a side note, how do you feel about Obama Extending Cheney’s Secret Service Protection?
http://usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/07/10/obama-extends-cheneys-secret-service-protection.html