Re nagging and friendships -- what really creams my corn is the assumption among some of the food police that anyone who becomes ill brought it on themselves through some manner of "unhealthy" living.
I don't give a rat's patoot if someone smoked 8 packs of cigarettes a day and weighs 600 pounds. If that person develops lung cancer or diabetes, another human being should offer comfort and compassion, not condemnation and self-righteous disregard.
Dog forbid anyone suffers from heart diease these days; those poor souls get bombarded from all sides.
I have a genetic neurologic disorder, but by golly, there must be something I ate or drank or inhaled in 62 years, or some amount of exercise I didn't do, that caused it.
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