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Our Lord and Sponser The Superbowl was on last night. Someone was playing something with somebody else… but who really cares about some gentlemen with a gas filled piece of meat, there were new commercials on! Most were innocuous. “Buy fatty foods” and “Bud Light will make women want you” – always a strange thing [...] I started looking into this topic on a whim, and after reading the growing amount of literature analyzing this issue, I find myself drawing some surprising conclusions. I find those direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads annoying and vacuous. What controlling your cholesterol with prescription medication has to do with picnics with your grandkids and hand-holding on the [...] Patient with an insulin pump. While watching NY1’s coverage of the Halloween Parade last Saturday night, I was subjected to commercials for a new (to me) product purporting to help diabetics “maintain healthy blood glucose levels.” Glymetrol does not help people with diabetes control their glucose (or blood sugar) levels through clinically or scientifically tested [...] |
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