You know what’s irritating? When people with medical issues are told by random assholes that OMG ALL THEIR AILMENTS WILL BE FIXED IF THEY JUST EAT A FUCKING APPLE or take a walk in the woods. No, cancer isn’t going to go away after eating some fucking fruit and vegetables, and that depressed guy over there isn’t going to “snap out of it” after taking a fucking walk in the goddamned woods. Get over yourselves.
And stop using the term “big pharma.” You sound like morons when you do. –Chronically Ill
This article appears in Jan 12-18, 2017.
First, stop talking to hipsters. They are young and have no experience with illness – either in themselves or those around them.
And secondly, you need herbs and twigs. Apples do not work. Oh, and drugs – lots of drugs.
For the record, “big pharma” is indeed evil and way too rich; but the drugs are the best thing since sliced bread…
Big Pharma can come in very handy when you have a life-threatening illness so fuck the apples, fuck the walks, fuck the thoughtless, stupid arseholes that would do this to anyone in your condition.
This is the reason why Steve Jobs is dead
And stop listening to that dumbfuck David Wolfe while you’re at it.
I like how idiots like to claim how marijuana will cure everything from cancer to the common cold.
Early maintenance and good primary health habits have a positive affect on long term outcomes. There is substantial research supporting that maintaining good health habits throughout our lives by way of healthy eating, exercise, engaging in mindfulness activities such as a walk in the woods, avoiding bad habits like tobacco and excessive alcohol consumption will reduce the likelihood of encountering numerous diseases from the common cold through to and including certain cancers and mental health diseases.
While these activities are far less effective at “curing’ disease they are incredibly helpful at prevention.
So go for a walk in the woods with your apple, it’s not going to hurt…unless you trip over a root and choke to death on your apple.
I’m sure exercise actually would help a great deal with depression, Their are way more people sitting at desks living sedentary lifestyles, Years ago those jobs were “special” and most people worked in factories or using their bodies, more “manual labor” as a result they weren’t fat and unhealthy, It’s not okay to be a lazy fat ass, and I should know because I am one, I have depression, eat rich foods and don’t exercise nearly enough, When I exercise I feel better but I don’t do it because depression makes you self destructive.
Some chronic illnesses aren’t the result of poor lifestyles. Some just happen and as much as you’d like to think eating fruits and veggies is a cure all, sometimes shit happens. Maybe exercise will help mental illnesses, but it isn’t a cure. I think people just need to bugger off and mind their own business. Way too many busy bodies out there.
Had a young couple with their baby in a stroller overhear a friend and I talking about skin cancer from the effects of the sun and they cut in saying everything could be fixed with coconut oil. I agree that coconut oil is good for many things but will probably not protect you against the sun’s radiation. Poor misinformed naive people. If all you put on that poor baby to protect it from the sun’s harmful radiation is coconut oil you are inviting cancer into your child’s life and yours. Better to dress your baby in winter gear 12 months of the year than slather the poor thing with useless oil.
^^ There are many naive consumers who believe the word of celebrities and other people with no medical background. These are the glory days of the modern snake-oil salesperson.
Calico…excellent post. I agree completely. I fall into a similar category in that I’m prone to situational depression and anxiety…and for years..almost right up to my 40s…I responded by coming home from work, getting on the couch and staying there. It made the situation worse.
FINALLY I clued in that “no matter what, stay off the couch” and over a period of several years slowly changed my diet so that it falls somewhere in the range of “acceptable”. For me though, exercise is still an issue.
However, when I’m feeling really down and all I want to do is shut everyone out and just curl up into the fetal position in front of the TV…I just keep chanting to myself “That’s not gonna help, that’s not gonna help, that’s not gonna help”…and I force myself outside…which indeed does help.
It’s always a struggle.