Best of luck,
DH

you have my permission toput me on an email list.

Sure you’re not sending people to death camps, you are just supporting information that claims if they STARVE themselves they will be good thin people. Aside from perhaps learning to use terminology not so close to the leader of the Nazis. You should look at:

http://www.bigfatfacts.com

It’s more unhealthy to diet than it is, to accept your body for it’s natural pre-set genetic weight. That’s right, weight is a matter of genetics, not someone being a slothful pig. I’m very dissapointed you are planning to use people’s health information to further the Obesity Hysteria. Maybe if you stopped and thought about how, you are sending people to their own self-caused deaths en mass, you might realize that you aren’t helping people. You simply are trying to cull the undesirables from the populus.

I am a family nurse practitioner who works in a community health center in Crawfordsville, IN, about 40 miles west of Indianapolis. I have been working to help folks adopt healthier behaviors for almost 3 decades.

I was a neurosurgical ICU nurse for about 6 years when I had a revelation at the bedside of a patient who was injured in a motor vehicle crash of two drunken drivers who were both killed in the collision. My patient was the drunken passenger of one of those drivers. “Red” was a mid-50s married gentleman with two young adult sons, a factory supervisor who vigorously walked the aisles each day with a cigarette in his hand, who ate what he liked, and drank to excess regularly. He was in critical condition not because of a brain injury, fractured femur, tibia, fibula, and flail chest–he was in critical condition because we were fighting his years of heavy smoking, poor diet, and excessive alcohol consumption.

That evening 6 weeks following the initial collision, his wife confessed to me that she was exhausted by the ups and downs of his hospitalization, that she was also feeling incredible guilt that sometimes she wished that Red had died in the accident so that her life could have some normalcy, much like the normalcy the wives of the two drivers experienced. That evening, as I stood by his bed hanging yet another IV antibiotic to fight his pneumonia, I decided I needed to get on the “front end” of healthcare. I went back to earn a masters degree in community health nursing and then pursued certification as a family nurse practitioner.

I truly believe our nation will not be healthier until we overhaul our entire health care delivery system, followed by an overhaul in our health care payment system. We do not have enough primary care providers, as they are currently defined (physicians and nurse practitioners), to effectively promote health. I have lobbied for expansion of the roles of the registered nurse to encompass primary care, particularly health promotion and health protection. A seminal research study published two decades ago identified that 80% of patient visits to a doctor’s office/clinic could be resolved by a registered nurse–yet these visits continue to consume the efforts of health care professionals whose practice would better serve patients who are actually sick (or sicker) than those in their office.

RNs would be the best educated and most experienced resources to assist your company’s success. Their clinical expertise could be vital in the development of your company. I would be happy to talk further with you about these matters.