I know a couple who have an interesting view on health. She (the wife of the couple) will go on a rant about man-made chemicals and food preservatives. She says things like, "You can't trust it if it isn't natural. I only trust natural things because Mother Nature makes things for us."
Her world is a black and white world where natural is good, man-made is bad. It is easy to live your life in such a simple way but it is wrong. I hate to be the one to burst her bubble, and I wouldn't if she kept her thoughts to herself, but she is evangelical about it so I feel I have to step up.
Natural is good, man-made is bad, eh? Snake venom is natural, synthetic insulin is man-made. One kills people, one saves the lives of diabetics.
She didn't seem convinced by that but I found an even more complicated example. Have you ever heard of Oxycodone? It's an opioid analgesic. So, it's derived from something that grows naturally. It was developed in 1916 and is classified as a semi-synthetic opioid (so, partly man-made, partly natural). It's used to help people with moderate to severe pain. So that's a good thing, isn't it? Imagine all the people it's helped. It is partly man-made and yet it has helped so many people.
But it has a down side. People can get addicted to it and people need Drug Detox to get over it. Oxycodone Withdrawal Symptoms can be so bad that people have to seek special treatment centers to get their Oxycontin Detox. Lives can be turned upside down and rehabilitation can be hard work. That shows it can be a bad thing. It's partly natural and yet is can be bad. You see how confusing this is. And it gets worse. The rehabilitation and utilise natural resources and man-made products to work.
So, something partly man-made, partly natural can be both good and bad, and the cure can be both man-made and natural.
If anyone ever tries to make you believe that natural is good, mad-made is bad, just remember that their simple view can't cover all things.
2/21/2012
Tonight's TV
Another night of watching My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding on Channel Four, but it wasn't a good one this week. There wasn't a wedding. There was one hen night (not a wedding, but related, so OK, we'll let that one go) but it was mainly about serious issues.
No one tunes in to that show to learn something. It's not BBC4, it's Channel 4, and people have come to expect what that TV show will offer.
And you can't laugh at someone being made homeless or someone racing horses on roads which risked the safety of the animal and their kids. But you can laugh at a silly big wedding dress. You don't want to make fun of someone's traditions and culture, but a massive outfit that makes you look like a thing old women use to cover toilet rolls, now that's golden.
Let's hope next week is better.
No one tunes in to that show to learn something. It's not BBC4, it's Channel 4, and people have come to expect what that TV show will offer.
And you can't laugh at someone being made homeless or someone racing horses on roads which risked the safety of the animal and their kids. But you can laugh at a silly big wedding dress. You don't want to make fun of someone's traditions and culture, but a massive outfit that makes you look like a thing old women use to cover toilet rolls, now that's golden.
Let's hope next week is better.
10/13/2011
The Jeremy Kyle Show
Wow! I have just watched another episode of The Jeremy Kyle Show and there was a woman on there, called Lisa, who didn't know who the father of her baby could be. She said it would was on three guys.
And then she walks on and you think, "They must've got through a lot of brown paper bags."
I mean, it must've been 3 paper bags per session. One bag to put on her head, one for the bloke in case hers falls off, and one to put on the dog do it doesn't have to watch.
Three times that and we're using up a lot of paper.
And then she walks on and you think, "They must've got through a lot of brown paper bags."
I mean, it must've been 3 paper bags per session. One bag to put on her head, one for the bloke in case hers falls off, and one to put on the dog do it doesn't have to watch.
Three times that and we're using up a lot of paper.
My Eyes Show Me The Truth
I woke up today and watched The Jeremy Kyle Show. I'll tell you what worries me about seeing the chavs on that TV show, it's that after they have been on the show talking about their various peccadillo (only I'm sure they don't know they're called that), the show offers them after care.
The after care is where their trained councillors stay in touch and help them through their chav-related trouble.
The thing that worries me about this is that I went to Vision Express for an eye test the other day because I wear contact lenses and they said it was an after care appointment.
What are they saying about me?!?
The after care is where their trained councillors stay in touch and help them through their chav-related trouble.
The thing that worries me about this is that I went to Vision Express for an eye test the other day because I wear contact lenses and they said it was an after care appointment.
What are they saying about me?!?
The Start of Winter
Is it ever going to get light today? Do I really have to make the effort of starting my day if the world isn't going to join in?
There's something about the start of winter that makes me understand why animals hibernate. It's not to do with surviving winter and avoiding food shortages, it's because they can't be arsed. "Should I get up and hunt for, whatever it is I eat as I'm a bear? Nah, I think I'll just sleep in."
There's something about the start of winter that makes me understand why animals hibernate. It's not to do with surviving winter and avoiding food shortages, it's because they can't be arsed. "Should I get up and hunt for, whatever it is I eat as I'm a bear? Nah, I think I'll just sleep in."
10/02/2011
Topamax
Topamax was a drug that seemed to have such hope placed in it. It was an anti-convulsant that found use as a treatment for epileptic seizures and could also help to prevent migraine headaches.
But it was later linked to certain side effects including birth defects like cleft lip or cleft palate.
From such hope to such failure, but that is often the way with the drugs. Sadly for those affected there's not much medically that can be done, but there is something legally. There's the possibility of compensation.
There's an Austin personal injury attorney who are experts in taking these cases. The details are O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath – Personal Injury Lawyers – 808 West Avenue, Austin, TX. 78701 – 512-494-9949
But it was later linked to certain side effects including birth defects like cleft lip or cleft palate.
From such hope to such failure, but that is often the way with the drugs. Sadly for those affected there's not much medically that can be done, but there is something legally. There's the possibility of compensation.
There's an Austin personal injury attorney who are experts in taking these cases. The details are O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath – Personal Injury Lawyers – 808 West Avenue, Austin, TX. 78701 – 512-494-9949
Doctor Who
I have just watched the last episode of the latest series of Doctor Who. Manalive, this stuff is just so random. Don't get me wrong, I very much enjoyed the episode but each plot change and twist is so convoluted it seems like it has been written by a mental.
I remember, when I was growing up, there would be a bad guy and the Doctor, and they would fight and the Doctor would win.
Now we find plot loops and subtleties. It's like doing A level English homework.
Love it.
I remember, when I was growing up, there would be a bad guy and the Doctor, and they would fight and the Doctor would win.
Now we find plot loops and subtleties. It's like doing A level English homework.
Love it.
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