Consider switching to a whole foods, plant based diet.
In addition to being highly nutritious and satiety inducing (therefore leading to relatively low effort weight loss) there are immense health benefits (markedly reduced chance of cardiovascular disease and cancer), ethical benefits (you will reduce the demand for ethically bankrupt, cruel factory farming practices that permeate more than 90% of the food industry) and environmental benefits.
Suggested reading:
- 'Whole' by T Colin Campbell.
- 'Eating Animals' by Jonathan Foer
The point is that men who have sex with men (commonly abbreviated to MSM in sexual health literature) have higher incidence of HIV and STDs.
I think your point is ridiculous (from both personal experience and published surveys), homosexual and bisexual men make up a small minority. Regardless though, it's easy enough to say whether or not you've had sex with a man.
And in answer to your question, seeing as I've never had sex with a man (nor intend to), I'm 100% sure that for all intents and purposes, I'm heterosexual.
Just to be clear, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with homosexual/bisexual activity, but there are provable additional risks for MSM.
Men who have sex with men are a tiny proportion of the population so the effective rate of infection is still (as we've known for four decades) far higher in these people.
They also don't account for other key risk factors: IV drug abuse, increased immigration from high incidence populations such as Africa and heterosexual woman who have sex with bisexual men.
Apparently understanding numbers and statistics is too hard for people trying hard to fit facts to woke narratives.
And to remind everyone that militarism is a major public health threat, a significant cause of death, injury, homelessness, and disease, a completely preventable epidemic that consists of the large-scale killing, wounding, impoverishing, making homeless, orphaning, and traumatizing of people.
We need to get past the mentality of trying to DOMINATE every domain in the pursuit of the disease of nationalism.
I'm curious, you seam to have a particular animosity towards physicians. (Or at least animosity towards the idea that physicians should be well reimbursed.)
Is there a particular reason for this?
In a world where people are making billions for photo-sharing apps and financial rent seeking, is it really that egregious for people that treat disease to do well financially?
Continuing to head in the direction of militarism, will continue the disaster of a world that we live in, and almost certainly guarantee the end of mankind.
I guess it depends on your comparison - that article didn't include Australia, NZ or Canada.
Also if you factor in earnings and expenses over a lifetime (including cost of studying and the fact that many of the countries mentioned have free healthcare and education and far lower insurance requirements) it evens out substantially.
More importantly, even the highest physician salaries are orders of magnitude less than insurance company CEO salaries.
Disclosure: I'm a physician, currently practicing in the US, previously in New Zealand and the UK.
Predominantly (there's also general overall bureaucratic bloat with absurd numbers of administrators at all levels) .
It's certainly not the majority of healthcare workers.
Physicians are often scapegoated as responsible for healthcare costs when in reality physicians in Canada, New Zealand and Australia earn similar salaries without the massive cost blowout.
On the euthanasia point I would agree that this should be a legal option (but on a humanitarian rather than a financial basis).
We definitely need do do a better job with end of life care/terminal diseases - in practice this would look like earlier/more hospice/compassionate care, less needless end of life treatments and interventions).
The greatest healthcare improvements in the US could be brought about by:
- Dismantling the insurance/big hospital complex that milks the US population for the enrichment of c-suite executives.
- Removing the capacity for lobbying by insurance companies, large hospital groups, device and pharma companies (so they're less able to price gouge consumers).
- Price transparency on all links of the chain of healthcare delivery.
- Changing the incentives for physicians and other providers towards expensive, often harmful and unnecessary interventions.
- Facilitating improved therapeutic relationships between providers and patients (More time spent, more communication, more incentives for harm reduction).
- Social changes including less stigma for things like drug use, greater emphasis on community cohesion and care.
- Demilitarization (Not only are absurd amounts of money spent on the military that could be redirected to better community health services; but innumerable veterans (not to mention foreign and local civilians) are injured psychologically and physically annually in the absurd pursuit of 'global security'.
- Better end of life care. I think something around 40% of healthcare expenditure is on patients in the last 2 years of life. Patients and families would benefit from earlier access to hospice care and less aggressive therapies that only prolong suffering.
- A greater emphasis on preventative health and lifestyle choices (better diet, exercise and sleep regimes - ideally within the context of a long term health care provider relationship).
Its very typical of modernism (especially in the US) to think that the way to address everything is a nice app with a better UI. This also facilitates the corporate narrative of marketing the shiny new thing to throw money at (make money for the company) to solve everything whilst digging the hole even deeper (and letting society absorb the collateral damage).
EDIT* Thanks for the feedback, I have added some of the points made by others to the list above.
I strongly encourage anyone reading this to watch Dr Ben Sessa's lecture on using MDMA to treat addiction and trauma.
https://youtu.be/11u7iX4j1tA
The reality is, SSRIs and other pharmaceuticals that have been used to treat common psychiatric illnesses (anxiety/depression) have dismal outcomes and fail the vast majority of patients that they have been given to.
Fortunately, there is a growing body of evidence that MDMA and psychedelic assisted therapy could revolutionize the treatment of mental health disorders.
Unfortunately, for the last 50 years, governments, industry and the military industrial complex (together with the MSM) have spread lies and scaremongering to block the therapeutic use of these life-changing therapies.
Here is another video for anyone wanting to know more about the topic:
(Lecture by Prof. David Nutt: The New Psychedelic Revolution)
I'm optimistic that the next few decades will bring about better approaches to these massively underserved (and largely exploited and discarded) people.
Fortunately there is a growing body of evidence that MDMA and psychedelic assisted therapy could revolutionize the treatment of mental health disorders.
Unfortunately, for the last 50 years, governments, industry and the military industrial complex (together with the MSM) have spread lies and scaremongering to block the therapeutic use of these life-changing therapies.
Here is another video for anyone wanting to know more about the topic:
(Lecture by Prof. David Nutt: The New Psychedelic Revolution)
In addition to being highly nutritious and satiety inducing (therefore leading to relatively low effort weight loss) there are immense health benefits (markedly reduced chance of cardiovascular disease and cancer), ethical benefits (you will reduce the demand for ethically bankrupt, cruel factory farming practices that permeate more than 90% of the food industry) and environmental benefits.
Suggested reading: - 'Whole' by T Colin Campbell. - 'Eating Animals' by Jonathan Foer