Mr Charlie Massey– CEO – The General Medical Council
Cc Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health, Sir Christopher Whitty – Chief Medical Officer, Lord Patrick Valance – Minister of State for Science Research and Innovation.
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Dear Friend,
We stand at a critical juncture in the history of medicine, and I’m writing to you with a sense of urgency that cannot be overstated. For over a decade, I’ve been sounding the alarm about the pervasive and pernicious influence of “too much medicine” in our lives. Today, I’m calling on you to join me in a fight that affects us all.
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Dr Dean Patterson, a leading consultant cardiologist in Guernsey and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, wrote an extraordinary letter to the CEO of the General Medical Council (GMC) calling for an investigation into unprecedented harms from the COVID-19 vaccines.
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Today’s BBC News headlines confirmed what many of us already knew to be true, that it’s not possible to be fat and fit. Essentially if you’re obese but still have no risk factors for heart disease, just being significantly overweight in itself is harmful to health in the long term.
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Yesterday myself and a number of prominent doctors, nutritionists, sports scientists and health campaigners wrote a letter to the medical schools council, the general medical council and the secretary of state for health calling for mandatory training for medical students and practicing doctors in evidence based lifestyle interventions to prevent and treat chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
Read more… Lifestyle medicine to save the NHS billions and halt healthcare crisis
Nuts, olive oil and vegetables are the best heart medicine ( too many prescriptions cause massive waste and harm the public).
It may be hard to believe, but poor diet now contributes to more disease and death than physical inactivity, smoking and alcohol combined (according to The Lancet). We have been guzzling sugar, refined carbohydrates and industrial vegetable oils as never before, with devastating consequences for public health. The combined costs of type 2 diabetes and obesity to the NHS and UK economy exceed £20 billion.
Read more… Nuts, olive oil and vegetables are the best heart medicine
The announcement last week by the British chancellor George Osborne for the introduction of a sugary drinks tax was very welcome news. I have been campaigning for years with others that a tax on sugary drinks would be a major step forward to help combat obesity and many associated chronic diseases. In February 2013, after a year reviewing the evidence the Academy of Medical Royal colleges ( I sat on the steering committee) produced a ten point obesity action plan which included a tax on sugary drinks.
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Cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer and respiratory disease kill 35 million per year globally. In 2012, the UN advocated a new health goal of reducing avoidable deaths from non-communicable diseases by 25 per cent by 2025. It identified tobacco, alcohol and poor diet as central risk factors.
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