• Bunnylux@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think I agree with you on this. Medicines may be a way to treat illness, but if we’re talking about health as a state of being as in, without the need for medical intervention, then I would have to say that the things that have the most direct impact are food and access to food, activity level, and environmental factors such as air and water quality and housing. But anyways!

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      1 year ago

      Yes. People seem to think that medicines make you healthy when they actually stop things that are ailing you. Some medicines actually work to kill off part of you that’s gone wrong.

      People also seem to think that taking a vitamin pill once a day will make you healthy even though you eat crap, vape and don’t exercise.