Conway Daily Sun Publisher Mark Guerringue and Sun Health Editor Terry Leavitt recently sat down with Tricia Costigan, president of MaineHealth Memorial Hospital, who shared her thoughts on urgent care, funding, staffing, and the future of rural health care.
Guerringue: I looked back at the story we did when you arrived a year ago, and you said coming here was like living the dream. You’re from rural Maine, and returning to a rural community felt like the right fit. So, one year in, are you living the dream?
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When an entire interview is conducted about health-care never addresses the cause of degenerative diseases associated with eating the SAD, standard American diet, something fundamental is absent.
The double edged sword we live and are diseased by is that media relies on advertising dollars from the industries that oroduce the products at the root of degenerative diseases.
Not a single question on reducing heart disease, colon cancer, kidney disease, inflammatory arthritis, autoimmune diseases, breast and prostate cancers, the rise in dementia, childhood diseases spawned from the SAD, standard American diet?
According to American College of Lifestyle Medicine, International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, True North Health Center, The Esselstyn Foundation, The Hippocrates Institute, Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine, The Plantrician Project, thousands of lifestyle doctors, a well balanced whole food plant-based diet is the only true antidote for the multiple pathologies associated with eating animals and what is taken from their bodies.
Not a single focus, as usual, on why the foid system is tge catalyst for the disease diagnosis and management system? Why ?
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