No, but NOTHING is always very good for you. I mean, people can be allergic to penicillin, commit suicide from anti-depressants etc.
Like with anything, you need to know what you are doing - I'm not advocating stupidity or ignorance
Horoscopes I find ridiculous too (but then I'm a Libran, we never believe in them *grin*), IF such a thing were to have an effect on us, it seems to me that the time of conception would be far more relevant? I mean, we do know that the time of year and day you were born will affect you, but that's more to do with heat, likely complications during birth, sensations and experiences of the first few months etc.
I read the Independant when I read anything - the Guardian used to be good, but anyone that allows Julie Bindell column space just isn't worth reading
Oh so true about nothing ever being very good for you; my dentist today told me to stop drinking so much orange juice! My one healthy vice, dammit.
I have no objection to the placebo effect, I remember a fantastic line from the Simpsons
Crowd: We need a cure! We need a cure! Hibbert: Ho ho ho. Why, the only cure is bedrest. Anything I give you would be a placebo. Crowd: [frantic] Where can we get these placebos?
What I do object to is that the aromatherapy cures etc seem to bypass medical tests and regulations that "standard" drugs have to pass.
I salute you for your opinions on Horoscopes; but alas I've not read anything else by Julie Bindell before so for me this was an isolated rant that I caught much in the same light as Denis Leary.
That was his explanation, more than half a glass of orange juice a day (or coke or other similar acidic substance) is bad for your teeth and wears them down.
Half a glass! Damn, so half a carton a day is probably pushing it then?
Is it actually possible to eat 'healthy' any more these days? I'm beginning to suspect not. Then again, I'm also beginning to suspect that most of the nutrition advice is biased one way or another anyway, so tend to ignore most of it.
Probably the answer is to drink it with meals, and brush immediately afterwards, rather than sipping throughout the day - it's the repeated bathing of teeth with acid (with nothing cleaning the acid off afterwards) that's problematic.
Kids continously slurping juice from bottles/toddler-cups is considered bad for the same reason...
I was under the impression that it's bad to brush *immediately* afterwards as enamel is a little softer, and if you drin through a straw, the essects are reduced because the drink is directed away from your teeth.
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Like with anything, you need to know what you are doing - I'm not advocating stupidity or ignorance
Horoscopes I find ridiculous too (but then I'm a Libran, we never believe in them *grin*), IF such a thing were to have an effect on us, it seems to me that the time of conception would be far more relevant? I mean, we do know that the time of year and day you were born will affect you, but that's more to do with heat, likely complications during birth, sensations and experiences of the first few months etc.
I read the Independant when I read anything - the Guardian used to be good, but anyone that allows Julie Bindell column space just isn't worth reading
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I have no objection to the placebo effect, I remember a fantastic line from the Simpsons
Crowd: We need a cure! We need a cure!
Hibbert: Ho ho ho. Why, the only cure is bedrest. Anything I give you would be a placebo.
Crowd: [frantic] Where can we get these placebos?
What I do object to is that the aromatherapy cures etc seem to bypass medical tests and regulations that "standard" drugs have to pass.
I salute you for your opinions on Horoscopes; but alas I've not read anything else by Julie Bindell before so for me this was an isolated rant that I caught much in the same light as Denis Leary.
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Bah humbug.
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Is it actually possible to eat 'healthy' any more these days? I'm beginning to suspect not. Then again, I'm also beginning to suspect that most of the nutrition advice is biased one way or another anyway, so tend to ignore most of it.
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Kids continously slurping juice from bottles/toddler-cups is considered bad for the same reason...
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I've frankly given up listening to most of this advice.
I try to be a bit more sensible these days, take my vitamin pill and get regular exercise which seems to be a lot more than most people seem to do ;)