<<You wanna know the REAL best way to not get sick? Stop taking medicine. I'm completely serious. The more you rely on medicine to get rid of minor illness/infection, the more susceptible to them you will be. Think of it this way - every time you let yr own immune system kill a virus or infection, it gets stronger, because it learns how to deal with that infection/virus. If you get rid of them with medicine, yr body learns nothing.>> Thats actually fairly accurate. Unfortunately, there are way too many people out there taking way too many antibiotics. Since the majority of flu illness and the "common cold" are caused by viruses and not bacteria, it is fair to say that taking antibiotics is often useless. Look at all the little teenagers who go to the dermatologist s and start taking them because theres a slight chance it might help their acne, look at all the farm animals who eat food pumped full of AB's so they'll grow bigger, look at countries like Mexico where you can walk into any pharmacy and buy antibiotics straight off the counter without a prescription. Its rampid misuse like this that leads to more powerful bacteria that cant be killed by any existing antibiotics. Remember Jim Henson? He died in the hospital because he contracted a strain of bacteria that couldnt be affected by medication that was available then. << I mean, come on - if pharmaceutical companies actually got rid of disease, wouldn't they go out of business? And it's blindingly obvious that the ONLY thing pharmaceutical giants care about is making money, as evidenced by, for example, the way it seems like every child or teenager in the country is on at least one kind of anti-depressant, anti-psychotic, or whatever. Funny, we used to get along just fine without them... in fact, if historical accounts are to be trusted, mental illness was LESS common before these drugs came along. HMMMMM...>> But its kind of retarded to say that pharmaceutical companies are out to make sure that people stay sick. Like theres ever a chance that there wont be sick people. If those companies didnt stop pumping out new antibiotics to replace the old ones which will become less effective over time, then we'd all have something to worry about. As far as the anti-psychotic/ anti depressant thing goes, well fifty years ago you had to be completely raving mad before they'd give you any medication. And back then there was practically no medication in existence to help people who needed it. And depression? Until the past ten years and the so called "prozac revolution", most people practically denied that it was a real illness. If you said you were depressed twenty years ago, your family would just tell you to shake it off and every thing will work itself out. The fact that you know a lot of people on medication isnt neccesarrily a bad thing. That just means that more people are being diagnosed correctly for mental illness. Theres probably a large contingent of the schizophrenic population even now that isnt getting proper medical attention. So the bottom line is, when used properly, medication is not a bad thing. It just requires proper management. For instance, whenever a doctor does prescribe you something, you should probably read any material you get at the pharmacy before you put it in your body. But anyways, i dont buy into conspiracy theory crap about dark and mysterious corporate giants who have secret board meetings to detail their plans to take over the world. And that whole thread about meat...all i have to say is that your body requires protein one way or the other. Because meat was once living like you, it has a lot of things in it that the cells in your body would also find useful. Unfortunately it also contains large amounts of fat and cholesterol too. But anyway as long as you cook your meat thourghly, its not going to make you sick. YOu could die of heart or coronary artery disease or you could develop colon cancer from eating too much, but in moderation, i think its safe. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com