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Originally Posted by drewchie,Jan 15 2005, 08:55 PM
Seems like when I was younger, going to Mexico to score drugs had a completely different meaning. 
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Originally Posted by Warren J. Dew,Jan 16 2005, 01:51 AM
Maybe the drug companies are wining and dining the doctors in return for the doctors overprescribing antibiotics that are about to make it into the public domain? That way the bugs will become resistant to all the cheap medicine, and the drug companies can make us/our employers/the government pay through the nose for new antibiotics that still have a decade or two of patent protection.
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Originally Posted by OhioRacer,Jan 15 2005, 06:21 PM
Oh come on guys, this is complete 
. People are responsible for their own behavior. If influencing kids is what you're worried about a) teach your kids about nutrition and b) keep them away from the tube. I want to live in a free country. I don't want the government telling me what I can and can't eat. I try to eat responsibly but there are times I want to knock down 18 wings. If we had it your way I'd not be able to find them at any restaurants because the food police would be "protecting me" from myself. When it comes down to either giving me a free choice or telling me what to do I'll take free choice anytime. Isn't that what this country is all about? As an added comment, I am sooooooooo sick of hearing people blame everyone else for their woes.
. People are responsible for their own behavior. If influencing kids is what you're worried about a) teach your kids about nutrition and b) keep them away from the tube. I want to live in a free country. I don't want the government telling me what I can and can't eat. I try to eat responsibly but there are times I want to knock down 18 wings. If we had it your way I'd not be able to find them at any restaurants because the food police would be "protecting me" from myself. When it comes down to either giving me a free choice or telling me what to do I'll take free choice anytime. Isn't that what this country is all about? As an added comment, I am sooooooooo sick of hearing people blame everyone else for their woes.Guess you started on this one without me.
Rob was right, I should've started a new thread yesterday. 
Too much to catch up on...
If you guys have a chance to catch "Super-size Me" you might find it interesting. Not that it'd soften Carmen's perspective, but it makes you wonder what responsibilities a company has to its consumers...
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Originally Posted by Chazmo,Jan 16 2005, 09:47 AM
If you guys have a chance to catch "Super-size Me" you might find it interesting. Not that it'd soften Carmen's perspective, but it makes you wonder what responsibilities a company has to its consumers...
her Big Mac over it. It realllllly made her think about her food choices -- something Mom hasn't been able to get through her thick skull 
. I did not watch the movie, however, I've NEVER been a fast food freak and always try to make good health choices. I just make too many choices 
. Healthy food is still tasty food and a good balance and lower calorie consumption is vital. Excuse me, folks --- exercise is also vital. I think the treadmill is warmed up, so I'm signing off. You guys have a great and healthy day. 
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[QUOTE=Warren J. Dew,Jan 15 2005, 10:51 PM] Maybe the drug companies are wining and dining the doctors in return for the doctors overprescribing antibiotics that are about to make it into the public domain?
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Originally Posted by ralper,Jan 15 2005, 07:22 PM
And again, I have to mention tobacco. I'd venture to guess that an overwheming percentage of smokers started as kids. If you haven't started smoking by the time you are in your mid twenties, the chances are that you won't. Unfortunately, if you started earlier, the addiction can last a long, long time. For many, the damage is done at a young age and by the time they are adults and able to exercise their free will, the damage is done.
I will tell you first hand that the single hardest thing I did in my life was to stop smoking. It took me 25 years just to figure out that I could. Had I not started in my teens, I never would have started at all. Once I started, I was trapped.
I'm not sure that it's any different, or very much different, with food, especially fast food.
I've quit cold turkey twice and both times I ended up in the hospital with severe cardiac arrhythmia. On my second visit, my doctor showed up with a pack of cigarettes and told me not to do it again. I'm going to give it another try this year, but I think I'll try the transdermal patches this time so that I don't scare the Hell out of another ER nurse.
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Oh, where to start!
* Adults are ALWAYS responsible for their choices and have been from the beginning of time. This world is not perfect nor fair, never has been. Just take Adam and Eve. Bought into the lie, no one MADE Eve do it, she decided to. You may get sucked into the misleading or blatant lies of this world, but you are the one that got sucked in. If that misleading statement or lie caused you to do something, and it really was their fault, everybody would fall into the lie, not just you.
* All the drug companies advertising drugs to you...So now you are going to your doc and telling him what to prescribe you... So why go to him in the first place if you can treat it yourself?? And, as for the docs giving you antibiotics for viral problems... all comes down to money. Many people go the doc and expect to get a pill and if they don't they don't go back to that doc. So... that doc gives a pill to make you happy and to ensure your return.
Ya think I am opinionated just a tad
* Adults are ALWAYS responsible for their choices and have been from the beginning of time. This world is not perfect nor fair, never has been. Just take Adam and Eve. Bought into the lie, no one MADE Eve do it, she decided to. You may get sucked into the misleading or blatant lies of this world, but you are the one that got sucked in. If that misleading statement or lie caused you to do something, and it really was their fault, everybody would fall into the lie, not just you.
* All the drug companies advertising drugs to you...So now you are going to your doc and telling him what to prescribe you... So why go to him in the first place if you can treat it yourself?? And, as for the docs giving you antibiotics for viral problems... all comes down to money. Many people go the doc and expect to get a pill and if they don't they don't go back to that doc. So... that doc gives a pill to make you happy and to ensure your return.
Ya think I am opinionated just a tad