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Ideal Protein Diet 101: Pros, Cons, Pricing, What to Eat, and More
Here are some of the downsides to consider before you try the Ideal Protein diet. A Long Period of Dieting Usually Isn’t Sustainable Strict diets can help with weight loss, but the results may not last. “In terms of low-carb diets for weight loss, studies reveal that it produces short-term weight loss; more long-term studies are needed to account for its effectiveness,” says Anderson-Haynes. For example, one review, published in the Medical Clinics of North America in January 2018, noted that while a person can lose weight through a number of methods, keeping the weight off is the real challenge, and that a typical cycle is weight loss, weight plateau, and…
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The obscurity of health care pricing undermines trust in medicine
The chronic ambiguity surrounding how much health services will cost patients can undermine trust in physicians and health care organizations. But with the push for price transparency, it has become clear that answering the question, “How much will it cost?” is at times nearly impossible. Advancing public health The AMA leads the charge on public health. Our members are the frontline of patient care, expanding access to care for underserved patients and developing key prevention strategies. The November issue of AMA Journal of Ethics® (@JournalofEthics) investigates why price transparency matters clinically and ethically to physicians and other stakeholders in the U.S. health system. The issue includes the following articles. These key…
