The Cure May Be Worse than the Disease
The Human Body is a Mysterious Puzzle
I can’t help but be a skeptical of medical science. Without going into my personal reasons here, I wanted to report on a new study from “Autoimmunity Reviews” that says although medicine has been recommending Vitamin D to treat autoimmune conditions, they’re now finding it may make them worse over the long haul. Further, while scientists believed that Vitamin D deficiency caused autoimmune diseases, now they’re finding that the reverse is true.
The human body is a puzzle. We may think we’ve found the right piece to solve a particular section of the puzzle. Unfortunately, scientists don’t know how the whole picture fits together. And without that knowledge, the cure may certainly be worse than the disease. So no matter what your condition is, I personally believe we should approach all food supplements with caution, and never overdo our intake because we read that scientists think it may help our particular condition.
Springtime Nest – Photo of the Week 4/22/09
Doesn’t this photo just scream SPRING?! And in case you were wondering, we don’t have a prolific robin in our neighborhood. This nest was a centerpiece gift from Mom and Dad on Easter, filled with delicious chocolate robin’s eggs, both from Williams-Sonoma.
Is Enough Ever Enough?
Delicious, But 1/2 Sandwich Was Enough Yesterday
I guess today’s post is a little less food, and a little more thought, with a serious helping of salt on the side. It started this morning as I watched the “Today Show” while working out. They seem to always feature segments on diet and health, including a segment they call “The Joy Fit Club” which is supposed to be an inspirational series depicting how regular folks manage to lose extraordinary weight. This morning I caught a similar series, but this was about a group of “Today Show” backstage staff working on a weight challenge. It made me start to think…
I began to think about how when something is good, they have to feed us more of it. It’s never enough to have a small portion of weight loss advice – we Americans have to do things on a grand scale. The “Biggest Loser” is just another example of feeding American’s, apparently ravenous, appetite for watching people diet, suffer, and lose weight. Or, you could look at it as another example of how the media is gorging us on reality television. If something’s good, bring on the supersize.
All-you-can-eat buffets, large portions, two for ones, warehouse club stores, apparently if you offer a lot of something to an American, they’ll like it even more and lick their plates clean. Is it an obsession with getting more for your dollar? Is it just a culturally ingrained preference large sizes? Does it harken back to our settler days of loving the vast, open spaces of these fruited plains?
I wonder if companies fed us small bites of good things and marketed them as fabulous, if we would lose our taste for the large portions that are being forced upon us, be it food, media or other consumables? If we tried to savor each little bite, instead of quickly shoveling in as much as we can, if we’d stop desiring more? My guess to that is probably not – we’d feel that we were being cheated. After all, if you’ve been raised to look for value and volume, it’s hard to change that mindset to less is more, even if it’s true.