Medicare Advantage Plans: Let The Buyer Beware

Advertisements for these products are overwhelming the advertisements for the traditional Medicare Supplemental Plans. While there are pros and cons in both, this brief article will make you at least a little more educated in the matter.

How easy it is to be misled by Medicare Advantage plans

Proper Food Will Always Trump Supplements For Health

We are inundated with advertizements for all sorts of supplements to maintain and improve health.  The truth? "Food is always a better source of nutrients than a pill"

Heads up: when any supplement is advertised, this warning is always included:

• Unlike drugs, supplements are not permitted to be marketed for the purpose of treating, diagnosing, preventing, or curing diseases. That means supplements should not make disease claims, such as “lowers high cholesterol” or “treats heart disease.” Claims like these cannot be legitimately made for dietary supplements.  (link)

Critical Thinking Trumps Intuition Regarding Medicine

"The low-energy cognitive process of doing what feels right is easily manipulated and often leads us astray."

Thinking With Your Emotions About Medicine

Time To Enlighten Celebrities And Consumers

"According to Dr. Bragg, music celebrities could endorse healthier options, such as lower calorie beverages, 'because that would harness the celebrity’s’ popularity to promote healthy messages to young people. We know from research that adolescents care a lot about brand and really idolize celebrities, so this sort of popularity could be used to encourage healthy dietary habits.'"

Famous Singers Make Your Kids Fat

There Is A Sucker Born - - -

"This one is so useless that it makes a Chia Pet seem like a defibrillator on a crash cart."

Chia Pet Is No Longer the World’s Dumbest Product

Health Care Advertising Criticized

From Consumer Health Digest #16-08, February 28 2016