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Old 22nd Oct 2012, 12:36
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Why isn't proper nutrition considered to be medicine? Presumably most of our modern day ills are caused by ingesting novel ingredients?
But is that not the point! Are not drugs novel ingredients and should not patients question the long term use of drugs?
Obviously a seriously sick patient has to take the better of two evils and pop the drugs but???
We are reminded of the recent very bad press on sleeping tablets which have been prescribed with reassurances from the medical world for decades.
Now even taking them 15 years ago increases your chances of dementia by 50%
Will we all be here with the same discussions and bad press on Statins in the future??

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