People Would Rather Pop A Pill Than Exercise To Lower High Blood Pressure | Science 2.0:
"When the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drastically lowered the 'blood sugar' level, the HbA1C test, to 5.7 percent for a potential precursor to disease labeled "prediabetes" the rest of the world jeered.
In China, that would mean 500 million people worried they have a disease.
In America, it would mean 80 million more potential patients.
When it came to data, less than 5 percent of those with that A1C level would ever go on to develop type 2 diabetes...in their entire lives.
Advocates insisted that this would warn people to start exercising, but
realists knew the truth.
Many were going to demand medicine and when they did not get it, members of Congress were going to be yelling at insurance companies.
We know it's true, people accept science so much they feel comfortable taking a pill, especially if it means not having to wait for exercise to help.
A new study affirms that. In a recent survey presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2018, people told them were to imagine having high blood pressure (which itself is not a disease, but that is a different article) and choosing between a pill, a shot, drinking tea, or exercising, people chose a pill, followed by tea.
No one wants to exercise..."
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