Mark Hyman for The Huffington Post: Can Social Networks Cure Disease? Part I
Last month I gave a talk at TEDMED on how social networks may be an unexpected solution to our heath care crisis.
Jun 01, 2012
The Huffington Post
By Mark Hyman
Published: May 20, 2012
Last month I gave a talk at TEDMED on how social networks may be an unexpected solution to our heath care crisis.
Here's how my talk went:
I want to tell you a story of how a skinny Haitian chicken and a bowl of beet and cabbage soup turned my world upside down and helped me think differently about how we might deal with the crazy explosion of lifestyle-driven chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes and obesity -- what I like to call DIABESITY!
How can we even think about solving this problem that will cost the global economy $47 trillion over the next 20 years and by the end of this decade kill 50 million people a year, killing more than twice as many people as infectious disease?
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Jun 01, 2012
The Huffington Post
By Mark Hyman
Published: May 20, 2012
Last month I gave a talk at TEDMED on how social networks may be an unexpected solution to our heath care crisis.
Here's how my talk went:
I want to tell you a story of how a skinny Haitian chicken and a bowl of beet and cabbage soup turned my world upside down and helped me think differently about how we might deal with the crazy explosion of lifestyle-driven chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes and obesity -- what I like to call DIABESITY!
How can we even think about solving this problem that will cost the global economy $47 trillion over the next 20 years and by the end of this decade kill 50 million people a year, killing more than twice as many people as infectious disease?
Read More