Current reading...

I just started reading this book today and will post a report when I am finished. "Our Daily Meds" is packed with shocking statistics. So far, this one takes the cake: prescription medication kills an estimated 270 Americans every day. That's more deaths than either Diabetes or Alzheimers, and twice the number of deaths caused by auto accidents (p.7). 

I am not anti-medication, but I am anti-overmedication. Before you take a drug (for which you may need another drug to deal with the harmful side effects of the first one, etc., etc.), explore all possible conservative methods (diet and exercise usually does the trick) that will actually fix the problem. Pharmaceutical methods often mask symptoms and create new problems. Even though 'tis the Christmas Season, when sleighbells and snowmen dance in our heads, we aught to avoid pharmaceutical snowballing. 

More to come...

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[tajer]

Wow, I think this is a good book as well as a guide to read. Thanks for the share.