The Grand Rounds Blog and Food as Health Care

I've never heard of a blog carnival before. (4.00 / 4)

Of course I'm just a dreamer with nothing recent to even submit. I did submit one old diary as an example of changing food attitudes moving closer to government. But perhaps someone here can submit something to grandrounds (at) drlapuma (dot)com that will steer information towards the part played by food activism in healthcare.

Again not being the worker bee here but just wondering about the advancement that could possibly come from this site hosting Grand Rounds on a future date. Very interesting concept for La Vita locavore,  the host getting submissions from other bloggers and then hosting a mothership on another food health topic, getting plenty of new traffic from other sites where the work of food activist might have gone unnoticed.

How about a future Grand Rounds right here that covers getting pesticides out of our waterways, the role played by corn subsidies in American health, the lack of public nutrition education from the government, the disinterest in school lunch programs that harms the future of young Americans? There are so many topics that could change a few thoughts of people who have not gotten around to that sort of thinking.

It is just some blog but a blog with a different sort of audience. What are your thoughts?  

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by: Eddie C @ Sun Jan 17, 2010 at 18:49:53 PM UTC

6 o'clock, times up. (4.00 / 3)

I should have found it sooner but there must be some pay off to reaching people outside of the people who already understand. Good old fashioned marketing or turning the food movement into a growth industry.

It does seem today that in politics most people have become isolated with the people they find agreeable.

What do you think, a worthwhile project?  

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by: Eddie C @ Sun Jan 17, 2010 at 23:00:01 PM UTC

Probably... (4.00 / 2)

You've done us a useful service, I think, by letting us know the project exists. I need to get more familiar with it.

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by: count @ Sun Jan 17, 2010 at 23:38:06 PM UTC

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Well I should point out that Grand Rounds... (4.00 / 2)

is usually not about food and usually about medical issues.

Now on a week that it will be about imposing healthy eating on ourselves, I was thinking not so much about getting familiar with them but getting them interested in the good work here.

I got a letter back with a link to the coming post;

Thank you so much for submitting a post to the January 19 Grand Rounds
on Food and Diet. We'll publish the "best of the best" on January 19, at this link:http://drjohnlapuma.com/blogs.

Here is the link for the 2007 Grand Rounds on the Diet and Food, for comparison: http://drjohnlapuma.com/blogs/2007/01/08/grand-rounds-diet/

Warm regards, and many thanks,
John La Puma, MD, FACP

I doubt he will be posting my piece and the old one is not really a comment environment but if a future one came from here and was about how food politics can improve health. That's where I was going.  

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by: Eddie C @ Mon Jan 18, 2010 at 00:51:03 AM UTC

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I consider food as the health care of first resort (4.00 / 1)

Years ago I read a book by Jean Carper called "Food Is Your Best Medicine." I thoroughly agree. There are numerous population studies linking diseases (or health) with diet.

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by: cybercitizen @ Tue Jan 19, 2010 at 02:11:27 AM UTC