Thanksgiving Madness

Filed under: General Health

This will be the last post for the week as I will be going home to Maine for my favorite holiday. Thanksgiving is awesome. Its a holiday mainly about food, and yes giving thanks, but mainly food. Its genius. Who doesn’t love food?

I plan on eating my face off. Stuff my face til I crawl to the couch, pass out watching football, then slam down some pie. The way I look at it, I eat well the rest of the time, so 1 meal is not going to do much or really any damage. If your diet is spot on, fear not Thanksgiving and enjoy yourself guilt-free. Have some turkey, stuffing, loads of carbs, pie, all of it, and love it. Just be smart the rest of the day and it wont do anything. If you can manage it, crank out a morning session and really negate the impact this meal could have. Its up to you.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone, thanks for reading and see you next week. Lastly, I want to thank Tony Gentilcore for greatly increasing my readership, if any of you don’t read his blog, definitely check it out. Tony is hilarious, smart and always some interesting stuff to talk about. And he has a 6-pack, ladies.

A Pill for Damn Near Everything!

Filed under: General Health

There was a great article on MSN about over prescription of medications that I would like to discuss. Do read the article, it will be well worth your time.

Health in a bottle? I think not.

This is a topic that I am very passionate about as I definitely feel that the medical community has gone off the deep end in regards to prescription medications and pills. Doctors have just decided that the best course of action to solve almost every problem is a pill. Your shoulder hurts, here’s a pill. It hurts worse, here is another pill. And the cycle continues. When you have to prescribe a pill to offset the effects of another pill, doesn’t that just strike you as odd? Granted there may be occasions when that is necessary and beneficial, but it should not be the norm.

The worst part is that doctors and physicians as a whole seem to ignore the possibility that taking so many prescription drugs in conjunction with one another could pose health risks of their own. A drug is a drug, and they all have side effects and we need to stop blindly following the advice that is being given by doctors through the pharmaceutical companies. These companies have a huge influence in the medical community as they fund research projects, pad doctors pockets (which is finally being looked into) and influence what is taught in med school. Half of the 10 leading causes of death in the US are diet related, yet our solution is to teach our doctors the best pills to pop, not the best dietary intervention strategies? Seems a little ass backwards to me.

Consumers do carry a portion of the blame, as many people would much rather just take a pill every day to “solve” their problem(s), rather than take preventative action, and doctors know this. It is often the path of least resistance to prescribe a pill, so both parties are at fault. We as a society need to reclaim our health through proper nutrition and exercise and stop expecting someone or something to solve our problems, least of all a pill.