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by garhkal
on Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:14 pm |
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Quote: My mother, who has so far outlived her own mother by two years, has Alzheimer's and is unable to live alone or manage her own affairs. She has to be reminded to eat every meal. She has forgotten who close relatives are and can't remember where the dishes go in a house she's lived in for 50 years.
That actually makes me wonder if a lot of the medical issues we see now a days was not CAUSED by our meddling in the mind and body of people... When my dad was a kid he never heard of anyone suffering from the symptons of alzheimers. Or from kids with ADD/ADHD/DASBFAS/H$EUI. |
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by crackerjack
on Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:26 pm |
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garhkal wrote: Quote: My mother, who has so far outlived her own mother by two years, has Alzheimer's and is unable to live alone or manage her own affairs. She has to be reminded to eat every meal. She has forgotten who close relatives are and can't remember where the dishes go in a house she's lived in for 50 years.
That actually makes me wonder if a lot of the medical issues we see now a days was not CAUSED by our meddling in the mind and body of people... When my dad was a kid he never heard of anyone suffering from the symptons of alzheimers. Or from kids with ADD/ADHD/DASBFAS/H$EUI.
Well a lot of it has to do with what we eat. Everything you eat today is raised or grown with antibiotics and hormones. I just found out today that PM uses youth hormones in their tobacco to prevent Tobacco Beatles from reaching maturity. That must be what kept me so young all those years. |
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by libertarian99
on Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:09 pm |
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crackerjack wrote: County workers who smoke will soon pay a surcharge on their health insurance.
FORT LAUDERDALE - Add smokers and unhealthy employees to the list of targets in Broward County government's effort to cut spending. And overweight workers could be next.
Government workers who smoke will pay higher health insurance premiums if they don't quit by the end of the year. Employees also will pay more if they refuse to participate in an annual health assessment and a blood test that screens for high cholesterol and diabetes. |
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by runamok
on Sun Sep 27, 2009 9:33 am |
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crackerjack wrote: Well a lot of it has to do with what we eat.
Blanket statements such as these with no basis in fact are the very reason smokers are being persecuted today. Careful or you will be recruited by the food police.
Alzheimers has always been with us but it stands to reason that there is probably more incidence of it as life spans have increased. Same with cancer and heart disease. These are all afflictions that tend to rear up later in life and the longer we live, the better chance we have of contracting them.
I would expect to see a temporary, statistical increase in all of these diseases over the next 30 years or so as the glut of boomers age into their 80's. This statistical bubble will no doubt be used to persecute all manner of life-styles, even though the reason for it will be that people are living longer which is what they seem to be after anyway, though things are rarely what they seem to be.
We are told however, that the incidence of ADHD, autism, clinical depression, and a host of other maladies that affect mostly young people, are rising at alarming rates which is the first clue that something is amiss. There is some pretty strong evidence that the pharaceutical companies are deep in the mix of drastically lowering the thresholds of diagnosis for a lot of these conditions as they push their "medications".
My personal opinion is that some of these afflictions, particularly ADHD, do not even exist but are merely the human condition exhibiting its wide diversity of personality types. Something that should be celebrated, not medicated. |
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by smallbird
on Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:11 pm |
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Well said, again, runamok! A bunch of bogus diagnoses! Used to sell a bunch of expensive medication! I have a kid (who will be 39 this week), who, if it were today...all his teachers would have recommended medication! He turned out great! I can't describe all the things he has accomplished! I have a niece who is 10 years younger than my kid...and she is on Ritalin! ??? What tha! All she really needs is some serious counselling from someone who she respects (not family, obviously)!  |
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