I make it a point to question everything my doctor says and I'm not alone. Today, people are more involved in their health care than ever before, seeking alternatives, demanding to be listened to, and seeking out information on their ailment and outcomes.

Demographic change, education, affluence, availability of information via the Internet, patient mobility, direct-to-consumer marketing, patient age, patient activity demands, cost pressures and physician accountability are converging to present the practitioner with a patient who is more informed and has higher expectations than any prior generation of patients.

Not too far down the road, our medicine will be customized to individual people. "Personalized medicine, the practice of catering medical therapies to the specific genetic and disease profiles of patients, represents a major shift from the one-size-fits-all model of traditional medicine."

Science is progressing, but sometimes it's too much. I think this adulteration of food is insane, don't go for it.

“Our goal is to keep the fat in the food, but stop it from being digested by surrounding it with layers of dietary fiber,” says Julian McClements, UMass Amherst professor of food science. “Foods produced with these encapsulated fats should have the same qualities as conventional high-fat foods.” The research team includes McClements and UMass Amherst food science professors Eric Decker and Yeonhwa Park.

Crazy engineered foods make me uneasy. Remember, foods containing fats are not bad for you, it's the high carbohydrate - low in fat diets that are causing the onslaught of diseases we see today. Even the fed's food pyramid is under fire. 

According to the authors, in 2000, the Dietary Guideline Advisory Committee actually suggested that the lower fat diet recommendation advised in 1995 may have been ill-advised, and might in fact be harmful.

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