On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:54:06 -0600, Ken Stuart <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>
> Included in the vast worldwide promotion for the second product are
> seductive commercials promoting the ingestion of small round objects,
> the effect of which is to dull people's minds, and make most of the
> populace even less capable of making a rational decision.
>
> And, in addition, in all aspects of society, consumption of foods that
> make the brain foggy and incapable of making rational decisions, is
> constantly promoted.

It may not be what you intended, but this sounds like you're describing a
vast conspiracy to keep people stupid and pill-happy.  I don't buy that.
I believe the vast majority of people involved in the health care industry
have the best intentions at heart.  My wife is an RN, my sister-in-law is
a PA, and I have friends who are doctors, and none of them have any desire
to keep people's brains foggy or even keep them popping pills -- quite the
opposite, in fact.

Mainstream healthcare's biggest problem is that it focuses on correction
of symptoms instead of treatment of the whole organism (a viewpoint which,
incidentally, is shared by most of those I know in the field).  Combine
that with "scientific" studies that prove certain drugs can relieve
certain symptoms, and our desire for instant gratification, and you wind
up with the mess we're in.  It's not because some vast conspiracy is
trying to keep the population down, it's just the natural way it works out
given human nature on both sides of the equation.  Telling people that all
their health problems will be solved by changing their diet and waiting
several years just isn't going to go over very well -- the majority of
them will find some other way that gets results in the short term, even if
it's detrimental in the long term.

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   Robert Kesterson
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