Food Politics

I’m from the Northwest and have personal experience with Kaiser–most people have a love-hate feeling about them in the west. Non-profit is great, but you hear (and I have experienced) horror stories about them. The docs are on salary and are widely seen as bottom of the class med students. They palm you off to a nurse practitioner or PA for serious problems and you rarely see the same doc twice for one reason or another (when you DO get to see a doc). Still, I’d rather have Kaiser that the current system.

On the topic, I am happy to see them posting calories because the kind of cafeteria food hospitals serve has a lot of hidden fat and salt from what I have seen. Next up should be colleges–I ate a meal at my son’s school and it was so fat laden (gravy, dressing, etc) that I had diarrhea for two days (I eat very little fat as a rule).

Something should be done about all these phone “agencies” naming themselves things that sound benign or in the public interest, but actually being shills for some narrow ideological interest instead–not sure what, but I for one, always look them up and try to find out who they really represent.

Thanks, as usual, for taking the time to share these things that won’t make the evening news but are so important.

I’m from the Northwest and have personal experience with Kaiser–most people have a love-hate feeling about them in the west. Non-profit is great, but you hear (and I have experienced) horror stories about them. The docs are on salary and are widely seen as bottom of the class med students. They palm you off to a nurse practitioner or PA for serious problems and you rarely see the same doc twice for one reason or another (when you DO get to see a doc). Still, I’d rather have Kaiser that the current system.

On the topic, I am happy to see them posting calories because the kind of cafeteria food hospitals serve has a lot of hidden fat and salt from what I have seen. Next up should be colleges–I ate a meal at my son’s school and it was so fat laden (gravy, dressing, etc) that I had diarrhea for two days (I eat very little fat as a rule).

Something should be done about all these phony “agencies” naming themselves things that sound benign or in the public interest, but actually being shills for some narrow ideological interest instead–not sure what, but I for one, always look them up and try to find out who they really represent.

Thanks, as usual, for taking the time to share these things that won’t make the evening news but are so important.

I think Kaiser is required by California’s new labeling law to provide nutrition info (at least calories for now), because technically they are a chain. I wouldn’t give them too much credit. They have been talking the talk for years… but the food is only now showing some (slight) improvement.