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Let me explain. I am doing a bunch of health modules for my husband because his employer gives him paid time off for being "healthy". The program is called SimplyWell and they basically try to cut costs for the company's health insurance but these webcasts are so full of crap that it's making me sick. You earn points for watching films and interactive brainwashing lessons as well as getting regular screenings for cholesterol PSA, etc. and you earn points for getting flu and pneumonia vaccines! Naturally he wants to take part because who doesn't want PTO? And he's into fitness and being healthy but not the way I am. He believes what those in power say. Doctors should know better than I do, right?

I'm just glad he isn't listening to them himself because he might actually fall for it. For example, they're praising the Food Pyramid scheme, discussing good calcium channel blockers for heartburn and recommending birth control pills for females with acne, just to name a few.

They also said that composite toot fillings are untested for long term use saying they've only been around for ten years. Therefore metal is recommended and gold is best. What? I've only had one cavity and that was was when I was eleven. I'm thirty-one now and my filling is composite. I know they weren't even new back then.

They also had a video with "good" stretching exercises and a cartoon man was doing wall squats with his knees way out over his toes.

It makes me sad and frightened that most average people watch this sort of BS and think they're getting the best information because the doctors in the videos said so.

Just look at where they get their hosts from:


I tell you, the only one that wasn't full of pharmaceutical promotion and misdirection was the module called "How to Brush Your Teeth Effectively"

Ahah. That gave me a chuckle, sorry about your knees.

I work at the health center at the college, needless to say that I can see where you're coming from. Our office has a million purell bottles strategically placed everywhere, I hate purell.

When it comes to having "jobs" I tend to take care of the plants and blood drives. We have special diet challenges where you can win prizes for losing weight. It was called "Spring into Shape!" and I thought it was the most ridiculous thing ever. You were basically required to come into the health center every week and get weighed by one of your peers.

I think my (least) favorite heath propaganda are the claims that we NEED grain to have a healthy diet, and women NEED yogurt for healthy colons. (Oh, however did we survive those 250,000+ years before agriculture?)

Ever notice how it's only women who need special foods to maintain those ever-so-delicate biochemical balances? We never see men being constantly told that they need, say, V8 or something to keep their penises healthy. confused

not to mention the toothpaste has sodium flouride in it xd and yeah@yanueh my mom also thinks grains are good, even though grains are hybrids of grass and have little nutritional value and then she said she thinks im not eating enough, and shes obese xd im not even that skinny either.

How could one Food Pyramid encompass the needs of all different body types?

I am amazed when some of my peers say they would not try any type of herbal remedy, ie a melon cream or applying heat in the morning, or ect because they prefer off the shelf medications and sometimes prescription meds to using a salve or aromatherapy or smoking a plant. I am much more inclined to trust something of the earth over something of the doctors of today. What with the fact that you can make so much money as a doctor, we should all be initially wary that these people may have motivations other than our good health at heart. Find a good family doctor who can appreciate the holistic approach, if possible.

I often wonder if the side effects are a result of isolating certain compounds; there are many drugs that were created from natural plants. My guess is, some herbal medicines don't have drastic side effects because there are other compounds in the plant that buffer side effects. I also hate going in for a sore throat and being given antibiotics. I'd like to wait until the lab result come back, thanks.