US Physicians can sure be dumb at times

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uestion: Are people with celiac disease always thin, or can they be overweight?
Answer: Overweight people can definitely have celiac disease.

There are two main reasons why people often associate celiac disease with being very thin. First, years ago it was thought that celiac sprue -- which is what celiac disease used to be called -- only developed in babies and young children. These young patients were usually extremely underweight for their age and weren't growing appropriately, a condition generally called "failure to thrive."

Another reason why it was thought that celiac patients are always thin is that the disease damages the lining of the small intestine and causes a condition called malabsorption, in which nutrients can't be absorbed properly by the body. People with malabsorption are often underweight, which is why doctors did not usually consider a diagnosis of celiac disease in people who are overweight.

Now, however, medical research has been showing that people with celiac disease are not always thin. For example, in one study published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine in 2008, 11.2% of children diagnosed with celiac disease were overweight. In another study in the American Journal of Gastroenterology published in 2001, 39% of adults with celiac disease were overweight when they were diagnosed.

In its Consensus Statement on Celiac Disease, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) cautioned doctors that, "The single most important step in diagnosing celiac disease is to first consider the disorder." These days, more and more doctors are realizing that the diagnosis of celiac disease should be considered in patients who are overweight, too.

US Physicians can sure be dumb at times.

I think doctors should know about nutrition and can relay that info to patients. I can't remember the last time a doctor talked to me about nutrition.

Seeing how the story is brought to us by the Young Turds right off I know it's subversive BS even without watching it.

Can't you come up with a better daily slam for the US than this????

I'm not sure if you believe that, but it still deserves this:

The TYT clip isn't actually about how bad US physicians are, it's Cenk Uygur agreeing with a physician. But he was dumb to do so given my article (unless you seriously are going to start doubting "Celiac about" right now).

Can't you come up with a better daily slam for the US than this????

As someone who's quite nostalgic about the Confederacy, you're the man who disrespects the United States of America. You also hate the Constitution as well, so you're as Anti-American as they come.

^^ So are all your sh***y hockey teams also only yours to hate [just kidding, sorta]? Nazism only Germany's to hate?

Hockey is more you people's domain. We're more of a football nation.

Nazism is a thing of the past but we'll go there anyway.
Personally, I wouldn't have cared what they did within their own borders if they'd left it within their borders but they didn't. It obviously became an interest to any country they invaded or were at war with at the time.
The U.S., on the other hand, isn't in to expansionism (no, Iraq and Afghanistan aren't examples of expansionism) so our Constitution is our own to fret over. When we run low on maple syrup or want to acquire some good hockey teams and annex Canada then it will become something for you and your buddy Master Pedant to fret over.

I don't have an opinion on celiac disease one way or another.





I didn't know I was nostalgic enough about the confederacy to call it that but whatever. The charge that I hate the constitution is an attempt to resurrect the argument about that banner in that high school in Rhode Island that some little atheist tart had an issue with.
Even if I did hate the U.S. Constitution it's mine to hate, not yours.....

Hockey is more you people's domain. We're more of a football nation.

Nazism is a thing of the past but we'll go there anyway.
Personally, I wouldn't have cared what they did within their own borders if they'd left it within their borders but they didn't. It obviously became an interest to any country they invaded or were at war with at the time.
The U.S., on the other hand, isn't in to expansionism (no, Iraq and Afghanistan aren't examples of expansionism) so our Constitution is our own to fret over. When we run low on maple syrup or want to acquire some good hockey teams and annex Canada then it will become something for you and your buddy Master Pedant to fret over.

How do you think the US went from 13 colonies along one coast to span across the continent? Besides that, what about US history following the Civil War? There was absolutely no difference between the US and the other "Great Powers" of the time. You guys were doing the exact same thing as us (British Empire and Dominions), the Belgians, French, Germans etc. Why else do you think your country has so many overseas possessions in the Pacific, Alaska and Puerto Rico, to name some results of your imperial time. Expansionism no longer has to mean expanding borders, since Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to be under the thumb of US interests for decades to come.

The US is more like Athens in practicing hegemony than an "evil" empire at this point. A rather clumsy hegemony.

I wonder what you actually know about Canada. I for one hope this stays true.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The Unites States directly effects Canada. We have every right to talk about your country in whatever way we please, and you can not deny us that.

If you don't want to see it, leave the PPR forum.

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Yes I know American history.

I meant recent history with the expansionism thing. We haven’t done diddly as far as expansion but I’m sure you’ll find some way to disagree.
And we never had holdings on the scale that the British Empire did in its heyday. I can’t blame any nation for colonialism at a time when land was available, though. It’s a matter of staking claim to it or someone else will.

You can blame the leadership (or lack of it) of Iraq and Afghanistan for their situation over the past decade. Or maybe blame that whole region for not keeping their house in order.
Canada has had a hand in taming the beast over there as well.



We don’t have much more than ourselves to practice hegemony over.


Obviously I was joking about the annexation of Canada.
We have enough of our own maple syrup to get by on.

And I believe I have a higher opinion of Canada than some Canadians I can think of seem to have of the United States.