These days, I almost dread reading any piece of article in medical research on the news and it is not difficult to understand why; a good number of them are on some new findings about how our current diet adds something negative on our health! I am not stating that the field of medical research has not contributed to substantial amount, infact on the contrary, I would hate to imagine where the society and all the diseases in it would be but for the medical research field's breakthrough. There would have been no cure and vaccines available and plenty people who have been kept alive by science one way or the other would be dead now.
However, that is not the issue. What seems to be the trend at the moment is that new studies are beginning to show that some thing in our food/lifestyle is not as healthy as it was thought to be or that some kind of food/lifestyle increases the risk of a certain disease. Take the renowned disease of breast cancer for example, I can not begin to tell you how much research has been done to attain the point we are at today. Most of it has been positive, but it seems everything "can" increase one's risk of breast cancer to name a few; alcohol, radiation and even childbirth! (http://health.yahoo.net/channel/breast-cancer_causes-and-risk-factors)
Now, I am not disputing that these studie(s) are wrong as most of the things are already known to cause harm but there are a few absurd ones like childbith which I can not even contemplate how that conclusion was reached. That said, aren't we all going to die someday by some means? In my opinion, one thing must kill a man and so I have decided to stop weighing the pros and cons of every item I put in my shopping basket at the supermarket, for I fear I may have nothing left to buy when I am finished, probably starve and that itself might be the death of me! So I reckon if I am going to go, I should go happy and well fed at least.
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