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[dbolack]

Our local "big city" has half the population of Manhattan, KS

Compared to places like Burden, or Rock, or Leoti? Sure.

 

[dragoner]

Too many people want to reduce empathy into a basic valuation in a data set, and that's wrong.

 

[Cadence]

RE: Town size and restaurants

My grandma's family is from northern Wisconsin and I've gone up there on vacation pretty much every year from the early-70s to mid-80s and then starting again in the late-90s to now.

In the mid-80s the town of ~1300 people we stay in didn't have any fast food, but did have a decent selection of local restaurants propped up by the tourists. Leaving on Saturday to drive back home we would stop at the McDonald's in the "city" 30 minutes away (population ~8000).

By the late 90s it had gained a McDonalds and Dairy Queen, but in the past decade it has slowly started to lose the local restaurants or have them open much more irregularly. Having a lot of the resorts and campgrounds sell out to vacation home builders hasn't helped since it doesn't give the churn of new visitors every week all summer who are on vacation and so more inclined to eat out.

 

[TiQuinn]

Today’s the kind of day I’ve written and rewritten a post multiple times only to delete it because “why bother?”

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I always remember that Linus Pauling used to take something like 3000 mg of Vitamin C a day, convinced it would ward away the common cold. Even really respected scientists can fall into quackery. There’s got to be something baked into our DNA at some level that makes us want to think food is the cure-all for what ails you.

There’s probably an unconscious, almost instinctual preference for “natural” over “man-made” stuff. Even for trained professionals.

I mean, virtually every doctor I’ve had a discussion with about diet opined about getting our nutrition from natural sources before going into supplemental sources of nutrition. I take D & K, largely because other meds I take cause me deficiencies of those 2 vitamins, and I simply couldn’t eat enough food to make up the deficiencies. (I did ask.)

And it’s well known that nutritional deficiencies are associated with a lot of preventable afflictions, like certain kinds of blindness, scurvy, anemias and so forth. For some of these, taking supplements is an easy fix.

And in medicine/ healthcare- as in many other facets of life- we know that prevention is almost always cheaper than remedies.

But that means unnecessary megadosing is an easy trap to fall into. If BOB’S eyes got better taking lots of vitamin A (because he doesn’t absorb it well), then if I take extra, I’ll prevent problems with my eyes in the future.

Of course, that ignores the reality that too much of vitamin A can cause things like liver damage.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The downward descent of an addiction medicine specialist turned radio relationship guru, finally arriving at "I'm going to shill garbage supplements to men and angrily push dubious medical science to everyone" has been especially grim to watch for those of us who were once his fans.

I liked some of Dr. Drew’s early work, but I have to admit that one of my best friends is a mental healthcare professional who was pretty negative about him almost from the first time we discussed him being a co-host on Loveline.

I personally thought the way he generally handled callers- basically “here’s some possibilities, but to really figure it out, seek a professional to talk to in person”- was decent for a show if that kind, but my buddy remained solidly anti-Pinsky. I don’t know exactly what he saw, but his assessment seems to be better than mine in retrospect.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I liked some of Dr. Drew’s early work, but I have to admit that one of my best friends is a mental healthcare professional who was pretty negative about him almost from the first time we discussed him being a co-host on Loveline.

I personally thought the way he generally handled callers- basically “here’s some possibilities, but to really figure it out, seek a professional to talk to in person”- was decent for a show if that kind, but my buddy remained solidly anti-Pinsky. I don’t know exactly what he saw, but his assessment seems to be better than mine in retrospect.

Some of their flippancy about callers once they'd hung up is kind of a red flag in retrospect. I don't know any mental health professionals who'd ever behave like that where the public could hear them.

 

[Gradine]

Some of their flippancy about callers once they'd hung up is kind of a red flag in retrospect. I don't know any mental health professionals who'd ever behave like that where the public could hear them.

I dunno, Dr. Phil was technically a real mental health professional until '07, and he's always been awful to people