Does anyone have a good explanation as to why those who were born in the 1870's to turn of the century and a few years beyond, for the most part lived a long long life up into their 90's and even beyond (without following any rigid fad diets) and certainly while taking no pharmaceuticals.
Obviously, many did die of infection in those days......so penicillan was a miracle drug.
But how did our great grandparents and grandparents, those who were blessed with long lives.........manage without a little pill for every part of their body????
That's a million dollar question.
We recall our senior neighbors, when we were still young and middle aged, who were just getting onto the medical treadmill with pill bottles all over their kitchen.
They had doctor appointments practically every day of the week as the body was passed around from specialist to specialist.
I do believe that now there is a faction that can think for themselves and those that choose the natural way of disease prevention via eating more healthy foods.....more power to them for having the will power to shun all the bad stuff that is out there.
But more power to those who also see that the little blue and pink and red pills also have harmful side effects down the road.........even chemotherapy and radiation can cause other cancers down the road........as Robin Roberts explained today. We know quite a few people whose "treatment" led to different cancers later on.
Not metastaces.......but from the drugs. We also know doctors and nurses who have to abide by the party line as far as treatment for their patients......but who privately will say that they themselves WILL NOT take chemo or raditation if cancer befell them.
So, whether it is choosing an "alternate" method of eating or diet..........or practicing a more holistic form of healing..........and avoiding the heavy duty chemicals that the pharmaceutical companies push......then "to each his own". My personal opinion is that most people who run from doctor to doctor are indeed afraid of dying as one other poster said........and borderline hypochondriacs. We all have to go from something.
Are we the only ones that watch the evening news filled with drug commercials and then the "side effects" which are worse than the disease in some instances......such as "death", lymphoma, T.B., various other cancers, etc.............anything that messes with the immune system, especially for the auto immune diseases, will wreak havoc down the road.
I know several women who were diagnosed with systemic lupus , supposedly of all their bodily organs and joints.......were put on prednisone and plaquenil.........for years and years.....with terrible side effects.
I also know many other older people who didn't even know they had cancer until the very end......like a few weeks before......they functioned without the worry for years and years of all this battling cancer..........and then just went downhill immediately before death was imminent. In other words, no drugs, no treatment and NO WORRY. They didn't know they had it. In my mother in law's generation, back in the early 70's they didn't even tell the person; she had it probably for several years but didn't know the difference........hers, we later were told, came from two many xrays during pregnancy in the 1950s
But mostly I remember all my long lived family members who never took one single medicine.........other than maybe an aspirin. Their longevity was amazing. Also, there was no processed foods in their day. Personally, I don't think our bodies are made for all these foreign chemicals manufactured by the drug companies.
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