12-05-2011, 11:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-05-2011, 11:12 PM by turtledude23.)
Vaccines have been proven (for lakc of a better word) to prevent many diseases and plenty of people benefit from pharmaceuticals every day. I used to be totally against all pharmaceuticals, until I tried some and it turned out that they helped alot, way more than my years of meditation and healthier diet. If all you need is clean air and healthier food than how come life expectancy is 2 - 3X as high now in developed countries than it was hundreds of years ago before the industrial revolution. I suppose we should all go back to having agrarian socieities where everyone farmed 12 hours a day, that was really healthy after all: outside all day getting physical exercise, all your food was organic and fresh, no pollution, no vaccines or pharmaceuticals, no mass media, no schools - yet few people lived passed age 40 and many people died in their childhood. Once upon a time all countries were worse than what we today consider third world.
I'm skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry and their influence on government, medical schools and doctors but that doesn't change the fact that the majority of people who use pharmaceuticals benefit enough from them to keep paying the ridiculous prices for them, clearly they are doing something good.
It's easy to take what we have for granted and say we don't need pharmaceuticals and that they do more harm than good, its easy to say the same thing about governments. If you're serious about that then go live in the middle of the woods in a 3rd world country, if you like it then great, but you probably won't.
ADD is real, I have it, and when I took Vyvanse it helped alot - much more than anything I tried before. And I haven't drank pop or ate at McDonalds in at least 5 years. I am quite health conscious in regards to what I eat and what products I use (most people wouldn't recognize any of the brands in my washroom) and I am very aware of how my mind works and can control it more than most people. So when people say, or imply, that ADD is made up and is simply the result of how the majority of children and teens live today I call bullshit because I used to believe in all that stuff and it turned out to be wrong. So show some respect for health issues you don't understand and the doctors who try to treat them as best as they can.
I'm skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry and their influence on government, medical schools and doctors but that doesn't change the fact that the majority of people who use pharmaceuticals benefit enough from them to keep paying the ridiculous prices for them, clearly they are doing something good.
It's easy to take what we have for granted and say we don't need pharmaceuticals and that they do more harm than good, its easy to say the same thing about governments. If you're serious about that then go live in the middle of the woods in a 3rd world country, if you like it then great, but you probably won't.
(12-03-2011, 01:37 AM)Diana Wrote: An alternative to ritalin, for example, would be for the parent to stop feeding the child junk--soda, sugar, MacDonalds etc, and feed the child good healthy food. Try spending time with the child and help direct his/her energies into something constructive instead of parking them in front of a TV or a computer game.
ADD is real, I have it, and when I took Vyvanse it helped alot - much more than anything I tried before. And I haven't drank pop or ate at McDonalds in at least 5 years. I am quite health conscious in regards to what I eat and what products I use (most people wouldn't recognize any of the brands in my washroom) and I am very aware of how my mind works and can control it more than most people. So when people say, or imply, that ADD is made up and is simply the result of how the majority of children and teens live today I call bullshit because I used to believe in all that stuff and it turned out to be wrong. So show some respect for health issues you don't understand and the doctors who try to treat them as best as they can.