To the Editor: The beautifully written and supportive essay by Stephen Gettinger about his mother’s journey with Alzheimer’s and his own diagnosis should be read by all families and patients facing this debilitating disease. From L. Michael Glodé, Golden, Colo. ,professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Cancer Center.
At least 26 people have fallen ill after eating Diamond Shruumz products, including several who had seizures or needed to be put on ventilators.
His mentor in Anchorage used to say, “Frostbite January, Amputation July,” remembered Dr. Hackett, clinical professor at the Altitude Research Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “For centuries, there was nothing else to do.”
Dr. Ihuoma Eneli, the head of the section on nutrition at Children’s Hospital Colorado and professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, explained the problem she said she and other pediatricians were struggling with: “How do we reconcile the message when we tell a child that weight doesn’t define them, that it’s just a number,” and then, in the next breath, suggest that the child take a weight loss medication?
However, once your body becomes accustomed to walking, you might want to pick up the pace, said Alyssa Olenick, an exercise physiologist and postdoctoral research fellow in the energy metabolism lab at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
John Adgate, professor at the Colorado School of Public Health, is a credited source for this article.
