Guest guest Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 I am not making a comment about the medications that one needs to take, I am commenting on the type of magazine that it is advertised in.? Leave natural to natural, and meds to MD's.? Jacquelyn A. Pressly, RD, CLT The NATURAL dietitian Specializing in food sensitivities/allergy, Weight control, cardiac and diabetes nutrition Personal Nutrition Coaching and Lifestyle Design Plans to help you get on the health track Northeast Ohio & Western Pennsylvania Internet and telecounseling available for distance clients jpress50@... If you are what you eat, then dietitians are the doctors of the future Re: Eating Well magazine Jacqui, I have to respectfully disagree with your views and opinions. I have to have specific drugs to avoid stroke, regardless of what dietary interventions I've applied or what great eating habits and lifestyles I've had all my life. Why should our customers be different? Digna Re: Eating Well magazine I'm with you Jackie, in theory, but how many RDs are paying for ads to keep the magazine in business. Without ads, they would not be available. . . subscriptions never pay for magazine costs. So, I think it's admirable to avoid drugs, but can the magazine stay in business without one drug ad? Just some thoughts from the other side . . . maybe more RDs should be purchasing ads! ;-) Jan In a message dated 10/30/2008 8:29:40 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, Jpress50@... writes: Dear Colleagues, I have a question that I think will bring up a good topic of discussion. I sure would welcome comments, and hope that I'm not alone in my thinking.? Here's my question:? Is anyone concerned that Eating Well magazine has a 2 page commercial by the Merck Company regarding a drug called Januvia?? Below is a letter I sent to the magazine.? I haven't gotten a reply from them as of yet.? Dear Eating Well Editor, I love your magazine, but could we please keep it drug free?? As a registered dietitian, I am working hard to promote diet and lifestyle as a way to prevent disease.? By placing pharmaceutical ads in the magazine, you are sending a subliminal message that drugs are a natural part of the whole health picture. I am very disappointed that the pharmaceutical industry has found its way into a magazine such as Eating Well, and I feel compelled to let you know that I am not going to recommend it to my clients for that reason.? Yours in health, Jacquelyn A. Pressly, RD ? Jacquelyn A. Pressly, RD, CLT The NATURAL dietitian Specializing in food sensitivities/Specializing in food sensitiv cardiac and diabetes nutrition Personal Nutrition Coaching and Lifestyle Design Plans to help you get on the health track Northeast Ohio & Western Pennsylvania Internet and telecounseling available for distance clients _jpress50@..._ (mailto:jpress50@...) If you are what you eat, then dietitians are the doctors of the future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 I am not making a comment about the medications that one needs to take, I am commenting on the type of magazine that it is advertised in.? Leave natural to natural, and meds to MD's.? Jacquelyn A. Pressly, RD, CLT The NATURAL dietitian Specializing in food sensitivities/allergy, Weight control, cardiac and diabetes nutrition Personal Nutrition Coaching and Lifestyle Design Plans to help you get on the health track Northeast Ohio & Western Pennsylvania Internet and telecounseling available for distance clients jpress50@... If you are what you eat, then dietitians are the doctors of the future Re: Eating Well magazine Jacqui, I have to respectfully disagree with your views and opinions. I have to have specific drugs to avoid stroke, regardless of what dietary interventions I've applied or what great eating habits and lifestyles I've had all my life. Why should our customers be different? Digna Re: Eating Well magazine I'm with you Jackie, in theory, but how many RDs are paying for ads to keep the magazine in business. Without ads, they would not be available. . . subscriptions never pay for magazine costs. So, I think it's admirable to avoid drugs, but can the magazine stay in business without one drug ad? Just some thoughts from the other side . . . maybe more RDs should be purchasing ads! ;-) Jan In a message dated 10/30/2008 8:29:40 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, Jpress50@... writes: Dear Colleagues, I have a question that I think will bring up a good topic of discussion. I sure would welcome comments, and hope that I'm not alone in my thinking.? Here's my question:? Is anyone concerned that Eating Well magazine has a 2 page commercial by the Merck Company regarding a drug called Januvia?? Below is a letter I sent to the magazine.? I haven't gotten a reply from them as of yet.? Dear Eating Well Editor, I love your magazine, but could we please keep it drug free?? As a registered dietitian, I am working hard to promote diet and lifestyle as a way to prevent disease.? By placing pharmaceutical ads in the magazine, you are sending a subliminal message that drugs are a natural part of the whole health picture. I am very disappointed that the pharmaceutical industry has found its way into a magazine such as Eating Well, and I feel compelled to let you know that I am not going to recommend it to my clients for that reason.? Yours in health, Jacquelyn A. Pressly, RD ? Jacquelyn A. Pressly, RD, CLT The NATURAL dietitian Specializing in food sensitivities/Specializing in food sensitiv cardiac and diabetes nutrition Personal Nutrition Coaching and Lifestyle Design Plans to help you get on the health track Northeast Ohio & Western Pennsylvania Internet and telecounseling available for distance clients _jpress50@..._ (mailto:jpress50@...) If you are what you eat, then dietitians are the doctors of the future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 I am not making a comment about the medications that one needs to take, I am commenting on the type of magazine that it is advertised in.? Leave natural to natural, and meds to MD's.? Jacquelyn A. Pressly, RD, CLT The NATURAL dietitian Specializing in food sensitivities/allergy, Weight control, cardiac and diabetes nutrition Personal Nutrition Coaching and Lifestyle Design Plans to help you get on the health track Northeast Ohio & Western Pennsylvania Internet and telecounseling available for distance clients jpress50@... If you are what you eat, then dietitians are the doctors of the future Re: Eating Well magazine Jacqui, I have to respectfully disagree with your views and opinions. I have to have specific drugs to avoid stroke, regardless of what dietary interventions I've applied or what great eating habits and lifestyles I've had all my life. Why should our customers be different? Digna Re: Eating Well magazine I'm with you Jackie, in theory, but how many RDs are paying for ads to keep the magazine in business. Without ads, they would not be available. . . subscriptions never pay for magazine costs. So, I think it's admirable to avoid drugs, but can the magazine stay in business without one drug ad? Just some thoughts from the other side . . . maybe more RDs should be purchasing ads! ;-) Jan In a message dated 10/30/2008 8:29:40 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, Jpress50@... writes: Dear Colleagues, I have a question that I think will bring up a good topic of discussion. I sure would welcome comments, and hope that I'm not alone in my thinking.? Here's my question:? Is anyone concerned that Eating Well magazine has a 2 page commercial by the Merck Company regarding a drug called Januvia?? Below is a letter I sent to the magazine.? I haven't gotten a reply from them as of yet.? Dear Eating Well Editor, I love your magazine, but could we please keep it drug free?? As a registered dietitian, I am working hard to promote diet and lifestyle as a way to prevent disease.? By placing pharmaceutical ads in the magazine, you are sending a subliminal message that drugs are a natural part of the whole health picture. I am very disappointed that the pharmaceutical industry has found its way into a magazine such as Eating Well, and I feel compelled to let you know that I am not going to recommend it to my clients for that reason.? Yours in health, Jacquelyn A. Pressly, RD ? Jacquelyn A. Pressly, RD, CLT The NATURAL dietitian Specializing in food sensitivities/Specializing in food sensitiv cardiac and diabetes nutrition Personal Nutrition Coaching and Lifestyle Design Plans to help you get on the health track Northeast Ohio & Western Pennsylvania Internet and telecounseling available for distance clients _jpress50@..._ (mailto:jpress50@...) If you are what you eat, then dietitians are the doctors of the future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 I know the feeling you are expressing though. I remember a couple of years ago receiving a publiction from the manufacturer's of glucatrol that was based on the leisure time of the diabetes educator and good travel and hobby endeavors that would help you recharge after dealing with your clients. Yet the ones footing the bill for this magazine was the patients purchasing the glucatrol in the first place. I got so angry I wrote them a heated letter asking them to cease the publication, pass on the money saved to reducing the patients cost of the med and to remove my name from their list. Of course I was ignored. Re: Eating Well magazine Jacqui, I have to respectfully disagree with your views and opinions. I have to have specific drugs to avoid stroke, regardless of what dietary interventions I've applied or what great eating habits and lifestyles I've had all my life. Why should our customers be different? Digna Re: Eating Well magazine I'm with you Jackie, in theory, but how many RDs are paying for ads to keep the magazine in business. Without ads, they would not be available. . . subscriptions never pay for magazine costs. So, I think it's admirable to avoid drugs, but can the magazine stay in business without one drug ad? Just some thoughts from the other side . . . maybe more RDs should be purchasing ads! ;-) Jan In a message dated 10/30/2008 8:29:40 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, Jpress50@... writes: Dear Colleagues, I have a question that I think will bring up a good topic of discussion. I sure would welcome comments, and hope that I'm not alone in my thinking.? Here's my question:? Is anyone concerned that Eating Well magazine has a 2 page commercial by the Merck Company regarding a drug called Januvia?? Below is a letter I sent to the magazine.? I haven't gotten a reply from them as of yet.? Dear Eating Well Editor, I love your magazine, but could we please keep it drug free?? As a registered dietitian, I am working hard to promote diet and lifestyle as a way to prevent disease.? By placing pharmaceutical ads in the magazine, you are sending a subliminal message that drugs are a natural part of the whole health picture. I am very disappointed that the pharmaceutical industry has found its way into a magazine such as Eating Well, and I feel compelled to let you know that I am not going to recommend it to my clients for that reason.? Yours in health, Jacquelyn A. Pressly, RD ? Jacquelyn A. Pressly, RD, CLT The NATURAL dietitian Specializing in food sensitivities/Specializing in food sensitiv cardiac and diabetes nutrition Personal Nutrition Coaching and Lifestyle Design Plans to help you get on the health track Northeast Ohio & Western Pennsylvania Internet and telecounseling available for distance clients _jpress50@..._ (mailto:jpress50@...) If you are what you eat, then dietitians are the doctors of the future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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