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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 6, 2008, at 7:47 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

>   Modren medicine is based, so says I,
> on us having thrown in the towel on healthy living and just dealing  
> with and
> managing what's left.

As people have moved from rural to urban living they have become  
specialists and have given up responsibility for myriad needs to other  
specialists. Health used to be the result of normal living, which  
included all the food one could get and a serious amount of physical  
labor. Now it is relegated to specialists whose study rarely includes  
nutrition. Insurance is the ultimate answer to abdicated personal  
responsibility and a desire for perfection. Perfection, of course, is  
the enemy of the good enough,.