Thursday, October 31, 2019

Cannibals, Beware!

I’ve never actually starved. But I do come from a family whose concern at one stage was less about what they were going to have for dinner, as whether they were going to get anything at all. So I’m not exactly a gourmet. I eat when I’m hungry and I don’t eat when I’m not.

Because food doesn’t loom high on my list of interests, I find other people’s preoccupation strange. For example, the overloaded way people order coffee – shot of this, half a teaspoon of that, a dash of something else. This is not part of my vocabulary.

Organic food is the other thing that doesn’t move me in particular. And speaking of organic food, it made me wonder just how organic are we ourselves. If, for example, a cannibal was preparing one of us for his or her dinner, what exactly would they be eating?

According to one study, 70% of Americans take at least one prescribed medication, while 20% of Americans take at least five prescribed medications. The elderly in nursing homes are the most prescribed in any other setting according to Aubrey Knight, MD, FAAFP, presentation on , “Polypharmacy in the Elderly: To Prescribe or Not to Prescribe”. He noted ‘that certain drugs such as antibiotics and PPIs are overprescribed in this population. He said that studies have shown that more than half of nursing home residents had experienced an adverse drug reaction, and that patients who are taking nine or more medications are 2.3 times more likely to experience an adverse drug reaction.’

According to another expert ‘the main reasons of death in the United States are adverse drug reactions. Prescription drugs lead to over 100,000 deaths annually, and more than 1.5 million cases of hospitalized people with severe side-effects.’

If you’re an Aussie like me, take note ‘half a million Australians are addicted to legal substances.,,,,,,,. an estimated 82% of Australians who overdosed last year overdosed on prescription drugs.’

So as we shop in our supermarket for chicken, fish, or meat, should we be worrying about how organic they are, or from what polluted areas they come from, or just how healthy we ourselves are.



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