I believe in good food, not medicine..

robot-heart-politics:

cabell:healthorhighwater:

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 Zeltrixa

Food is the best medicine.

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?

Someone who’s had the good fortune of being mostly healthy and therefore has never actually needed medication to stay alive and takes their luck completely for granted? Someone who is honestly ignorant enough to think that sweet potatoes are going to keep you from getting pregnant? In other words, someone who is privileged and not particularly smart.

Oh hey, remember that time I nearly died? Yeah, apparently the food that I couldn’t keep down was all I needed to deal with my food poisoning type thing, not the anti-nausea medication and sugar-water thing that they gave me at the hospital.

There was me thinking that medicine was something tested by scientists and carefully tuned to deal with certain illnesses etc.

If only I’d known that when I had my teeth pulled I should have just eated some iceberg lettuce and IDK some noodles (being as these foods begin with the same letter) rather than the ibuprofen I had at home and the novacaine I had at the dentist. I mean, THAT would have been far better a course of painkillers, no?

Because OP isn’t some wank-bucket who’s been lucky enough never to have ever needed any medicine at any time and for all of the people they know and care about never to have ever needed any medicine at any time. No. They aren’t pulling this “Food is the best medicine” out of their arse at all. We just never realised that random foods were more effective than medicine.

Jan

22

2012

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  1. infamousnfamous reblogged this from spaesbawlzthetumblargh and added:
    It’s like the OP is in their own little la-la land where food has more healing power than medicine…I’m all for lessening...
  2. weareallfalling reblogged this from glimglamoury and added:
    YES. THANK YOU. Is it so hard to believe in BOTH???
  3. naeko reblogged this from glimglamoury and added:
    I agree with the bits about science having a good handle on helping/curing diseases, but I take issue with the ‘don’t...
  4. empathilicious reblogged this from glimglamoury
  5. bitchslap-barbie reblogged this from glimglamoury and added:
    Hey OP? I believe in my fucking pain meds. And my anti-seizure meds. And the #$#@!! antibiotics I’m on, thanks. You have...
  6. glimglamoury reblogged this from carnivaloftherandom and added:
    As someone who now has to take daily medication for a health problem, I say fuck yeah. Let’s take a look at death rates...
  7. carnivaloftherandom reblogged this from name-redacted and added:
    overdrugging of western culture, but...hate people who think all medical/psych/neuro...
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  11. abby-cdefg reblogged this from youcallme-sexy and added:
    Baha. Beans won’t...anaphylactic shock. I’ll stick with my Benadryl, betch.
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    Yam birth control. I gotta try it. Excuse me while I die laughing.
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    I just choked on my on saliva because I was trying not to laugh. I get that whoever wrote this was probably just trying...
  21. eeesobel reblogged this from robot-heart-politics and added:
    As someone who takes muscle relaxant pills every night so that I don’t PEE BLOOD AND HAVE AN INVERTED BLADDER because my...
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  26. cableplant reblogged this from religiousragings and added:
    herbs, remedies, whatever. A good diet has proven...disease processes. However, when...
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  29. hardrivefullofporn reblogged this from plankenwhore and added:
    This is just too funny.
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  31. roz-spoon reblogged this from freesamuel and added:
    Yeah, xigua melon is not going to stop me from having a panic attack. While eating right is part of my getting better...
  32. satine-queen reblogged this from gods-save-anonymous
  33. freesamuel reblogged this from d-ogs and added:
    Yeah… I’m all for trying out alternative treatments but not when you completely dismiss mainstream treatments and deride...
  34. mymindinaclusterfuck reblogged this from jenara-shepard and added:
    What he/she said.^
  35. jenara-shepard reblogged this from toriathegadjeslayer and added:
    i believe in good food AND medicine.

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