Public Values

The mission, vision, and values of New York State Department of Health’s Commissioner is to protect, improve and promote health and the well-being of all New Yorkers by promoting health, protecting from health threats and having access to quality, evidence-based cost effective health services. Invoking values with dedication to the public good, innovation, excellence, integrity, teamwork and efficiency. The promotion of good nutrition and the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle is one of many concerns as a health commissioner of New York. As an important public figure in this role the recommendations and advertisements of such an individual can have a strong impact on the way the public values one’s opinions and will ultimately lead to …show more content…
The new push for low fat diet resulted in the Mediterranean diet, which is a diet high on vegetable fats. As time went on many people continued the low fat diet, obesity rates were still at a high as people would often have a higher intake on carbohydrates. After many years and continued research discoveries have been drawn that carbohydrates have significant negative health risks towards individuals as it would often lead to weight gain and diabetes. The author Teciholz does a great job in showing how one simple theory can have such a huge impact on society after it being publicized from notable sources in the media. Often times once ideas are present in the public eye it is marketed in the government and once the government gets involved and holds the concept it is hard to withdraw. This seemed to be the case of Ancel Keys theory with the media and government so held on the new beliefs of high fat diet and heart disease that is was hard for others to contest to and prove it wrong. were so held on this theory that it was hard for other researchers to contest