By Jordan Kisner — 2020
The energy therapy is now available in many hospitals. What its ascendance says about shifts in how American patients and doctors think about health care.
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Wellness pioneer Andrew Weil, M.D., learned about healing first from Harvard Medical School and then from indigenous peoples on three continents.
We need to reduce our emphasis on disease management and emphasize health promotion instead. How much more desirable—and less expensive—it would be to prevent diabetes and heart disease, rather than to have to treat those diseases and their myriad complications.—Andrew Weil
Blame and shame will not lead to sustainable weight loss.
Daytime television talk shows, popular podcasts and diet books on the New York Times best-seller list would have you believe that being healthy is complicated. Forget fad diets and fitness gimmicks. Just stick to the basics.
People expect to be medicated when they go to doctors, and this is all doctors are trained to do. They’re not taught other methods for managing common conditions.