Hello, and welcome to Pediatric House Calls. I am…
A Physician board certified in Pediatric medicine with Clinical experience including caring for infants, children and teens – well these days mostly children and teens up to twenty-one;
An Administrator experienced in top medical management for several national health insurance companies;
An Author of health care manuals, newspaper columns and even children's stories;
A Business Medical Consultant for drug companies, insurance companies and
physician practices;
A Veteran of the US Navy in the Vietnam era;
And…
I make House-Calls.
Yea, I know there have been some reports about possible “benefits” of smoking Marijuana but you have to realize that I’m from THE generation where Leary convinced millions of gullibles to indiscriminately use drugs of all kinds with the sweeping generality: “look man, it don’t hurt nobody if I do it!”
That was looooong before the goofball that told me that had absolutely ANY proof of what he was saying… one way or the other. NOW we do!
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To my way of thinking the very thought that medical researchers are forced to stop what they are doing on important issues beyond our control and do research to prove that marijuana is bad for you and shouldn’t be used as a “toy” is unconscionable to the extreme.
We just can’t let the scammers and dealers destroy unborn babies like they did pushing tobacco however; so, that’s just what researchers had to do.
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I am aware of possible “benefits” of Marijuana; except I remember that Timothy Leary convinced millions of gullibles to use drugs of all kinds, with the sweeping generality: “look man, it don’t hurt nobody if I do it!”
So, I’m not going to argue about it or accept opinions or moral pronouncements, just deal with substantiated facts. If nothing rises to the top either way, so-be-it.
Cannabis research barely exists because it’s been illegal; but “recreational use,” has disclosed its effects on brain structure—Marijuana is NOT the innocuous panacea the marijuana lobby touts!
Marijuana IS STILL (maybe more so) the leading “gateway drug” to a life of crime and decadency for the youth of every country; with HUGELY EVIL ulterior motives in every political decision made.
A previous article compared children’s health of today with those of 50 years ago and found our kids come up wanting. The fitness of your child can be easily improved by making a game out of “the BLEEP” test, a 20 meter (21.87 yards) running aerobic fitness test done in time to “BLEEPS”—or beeps—on a music player.
See the video…
Your grandparents and great-grandparents are always the shortest ones in all your family photos, right? It’s the same with all of us.
Your kids are taller, better fed and wealthier than your grandparents; so, why are today’s children LESS healthy than 50 years ago? Children’s health has actually gotten worse!
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For parents with small children: what is their health and fitness like right now, and what is it going to be like going forward? Developments in measuring techniques seem to be telling us that our children now are less healthy than our parent’s children.
Fitness? Well that’s almost a no brainer. Everyone is less fit than the kids in our parent’s generation. Not so smug now, are we?
Yes, it’s true the life-span is longer because we’ve made humongous strides in medical treatment and inventions; but truly, our lifestyle is doing us in.
This curation of posts are those which try to explain why and what to do about it: Children’s Health and Fitness.
I’ve written several other posts over the years on similar topics. If you’d like to know a bit more perhaps you might like some health-related proverbs.
I’ve written before about appendicitis and the research going on to find the best type of treatment. A big part of that research is to make double-dog sure that it keeps people safe because this thing used to kill people right and left!
Contrary to what the charlatans on the internet try to get you to believe, NOT EVERYONE is safe waiting to see if antibiotics are the only treatment needed; and, not every doctor is bad just because they recommend surgery.
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