I am addicted to salt. I'm not a fattie. I'm a very healthy weight (Even underweight), but still have high blood pressure, because anything without salt tastes bad to me, and I feel like delicious salty food makes life worth living and I don't know if life is worth living without bacon and pizza and ramen noodles.
Does anyone else think the medical community is kind of stupid about bad eating habits in patients?
1: Doctors are unaware that the reason why people eat sugar/salt/fat is not because they don't know better or aren't aware that those things are unhealthy in excess. It's because that stuff is GOOD. I'm aware that bad things happen if you eat too much salt, but I still can't quit. Eating bacon makes it feel like life is worth living. Is it even worth it to live to 100 years old if you only eat celery and kale?
a lot of smokers are aware that smoking is bad.
2: Doctors don't treat sugar/salt/fat consumption as an ADDICTION, which is what it is. Instead they simply tell their patients "you should cut down on salt to address your blood pressure", which no ones listens to because they are ADDICTED. And doctors are wondering why no one listens to their advice. This is like telling a methhead to stop doing meth, and thinking that will do the trick, instead of putting them in programs and getting them psychological help. I think salt/sugar addicts need similar help to what drug addicts get. Support groups, psychology. getting help in finding the life you want to live without bacon, then living it. The first referral that an obese patient should get is to the psychologist, not the cardiologist.
3: Why do doctors prescribe medication that tries to cover up the effects of bad food, instead of using medication that makes you eat less bad food? Okay, your patient isn't listening to your advice of "stop eating salt", so you give them a blood pressure medication, a statin, a beta blocker, etc. Why not give amphetamines to lower appetite?
Does anyone else think the medical community is kind of stupid about bad eating habits in patients?
1: Doctors are unaware that the reason why people eat sugar/salt/fat is not because they don't know better or aren't aware that those things are unhealthy in excess. It's because that stuff is GOOD. I'm aware that bad things happen if you eat too much salt, but I still can't quit. Eating bacon makes it feel like life is worth living. Is it even worth it to live to 100 years old if you only eat celery and kale?
a lot of smokers are aware that smoking is bad.
2: Doctors don't treat sugar/salt/fat consumption as an ADDICTION, which is what it is. Instead they simply tell their patients "you should cut down on salt to address your blood pressure", which no ones listens to because they are ADDICTED. And doctors are wondering why no one listens to their advice. This is like telling a methhead to stop doing meth, and thinking that will do the trick, instead of putting them in programs and getting them psychological help. I think salt/sugar addicts need similar help to what drug addicts get. Support groups, psychology. getting help in finding the life you want to live without bacon, then living it. The first referral that an obese patient should get is to the psychologist, not the cardiologist.
3: Why do doctors prescribe medication that tries to cover up the effects of bad food, instead of using medication that makes you eat less bad food? Okay, your patient isn't listening to your advice of "stop eating salt", so you give them a blood pressure medication, a statin, a beta blocker, etc. Why not give amphetamines to lower appetite?
