Haters like the two jerks on here piss me off royally.. but I forget.. that
"Just pretend that I have hurled a suitable ad hominem insult at those who think differently, after all that is the terb way.
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The subject of health is so vast that there are overlaps into areas that have nothing to do with drugs and surgery.
In North America the best thing anyone can do for their health is the well known reasonable diet, some daily exercise, do not smoke, get sufficient sleep, reduce stress and eliminate any obvious problems such as drug or alcohol abuse. Those obvious steps would massively reduce illness, but they are still not done by a great many people.
In developing nations basic sanitation, food, water and public health education (use a condom even if the Pope says not to) would reduce a lot of deaths.
Are these natural cures or just what is now taken as common knowledge?
I have a different opinion than Carrie. That does not make either of us liar's or bad people. No matter what my opinion is of a specific treatment, drug, procedure or line of thought concerning medicine I will still treat Carrie's opinion with the serious thought it deserves since she has studied extensively in this particular field.
When I see sham cures sold to cancer patients who are grasping at straws to live another few weeks then I get flat out angry. Those are the charlatans that need to be gaoled. Some of them carry licenses from the mainstream medical community such as the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons (google is your friend for details). Those are vile members of our community that should be dealt with harshly. For example, a child is dying of cancer and Dr. X has the parents pay in cash for a treatment that is not any recognized health care organization. The child died and Dr. X was gaoled briefly (that happened here in Ontario).
There also needs to be a recognition of the difference between correlation and cause. For example, this week it was reported that the more a child eats candy while young the greater the chance that they will end up in prison. What is completely missing is the obvious question, "Well is it the candy, or is it having parents who do not control a child that are the cause."
Bottom line is the guy who is trying to sell me dried monkey testicles to make a tea to cure what ails me is full of shit. Western medicine is not perfect and some of the dr's are crap. And there is a grey area in between where people seem to have some benefit but no casual understanding exists.
Sometimes laughter is indeed that best medicine but you can't claim tickets to Carrot Top on your insurance.
