I believe in good food, not medicine..
I believe in…
Avocados, not Advil
Beans, not Benadryl
Cauliflower, not coedene
Dragonfruit, not Dramamine
Eggplant, not epitol
Flax seeds, not Fortical
Grains, not Glucotrol
Hummus, not heparin
Iceberg lettuce, not ibuprofen
Juniper berries, not jolessa
Kale, not Keppra
Lemons, not Lunesta
Mushrooms, not Motrin
Nuts, not Nolvadex
Oats, not oxycodone
Peas, not Prozac
Quinoa, not Questran
Radishes, not Ritalin
Spinach, not Sporanax
Tofu, not Tylenol
Ugli fruit, not Ultracet
Vanilla, not Valtrex
Watermelon, not warfarin
Xigua melon, not Xanax
Yams, not Yaz
Zucchini, not ZeltrixaFood is the best medicine.
Speaking from the perspective of a potential future doctor, if ever you dare diss medicine and tout some strict hippie ~fuck medicine!!! natural foods ftw!!!~ lifestyle, I will shank you.
And then when you get sick, I will still offer to provide you care, because I am ethical, even if you are a dumbass who, to some degree, does not deserve the care and medicine I provide to you.
This world is not meant for all 7 billion people to live oh-so-happily off of only fresh vegetables and soy, because people get sick, and they will continue to get sick, sick to the point where they need medicine, not carrots.
How privileged of you to suppose that medicine’s value is easily beat by some good food? I like my food fresh and organic, too, but food has been around for countless eons, and advanced medicine has been around for only several centuries, comparatively. The rapid development of this world and standards of living is nearly simultaneous to the advancements and development of medicine.
Hell, people who lived farmers’ and cavemen’s diets (known today to be your typical all-natural, homeopathic diet) used to die of the common cold. And now they don’t. Why?
MODERN MEDICINE.
That is all.
For reals. Valid criticisms can be levied against our ridiculous pharmaceutical industry, but saying “fuck medicine yo!” outright is like no.
Tofu’s not going to get rid of a headache for you. I should know because I live in a place where there’s always fucking tofu and people always have fucking headaches.
that awkward moment when someone offers peas as a substitute for an antidepressant
You know, I am now up to three shots of heparin a day, which are, btw, seriously painful, in an effort to keep myself alive long enough to successfully deliver my baby. Hummus would not prevent me from throwing a fatal blood clot, because hummus does not have anti-coagulant properties.
Neither does watermelon, and thank god for warfarin, because once the baby is delivered I can STOP GIVING MYSELF SHOTS and go back to my normal oral medication, which I will need to use for the rest of my life to get the best possible chance of extending that life.
I would honestly like to smack the OP in the face. Or possibly give them a shot.
Like, seriously. Who is this big of an asshole?
