Term "healthy" applies to mainly foods, but not medicines, which are in fact the most direct way to make us healthy
Term "healthy" applies to mainly foods, but not medicines, which are in fact the most direct way to make us healthy
Medicines don't really make you healthy though, they fix you up when you're unhealthy.
34Usually at the expense of something else, unfortunately
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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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Medicine can help bring you relief from illness, but it can't make you healthy if you were never healthy in the first place.
13Agree with the message but the phrasing is slightly off.
Some people have bodies that don't function perfectly in the climate they're in, resulting in, for example, vitamin D shortage. Taking some vitamin supplements can help in that case. You were never healthy before, but are after you start taking supplements.
Sometimes these things are long term too. You can use medicine to reduce skin oil generation to combat acne. Antibiotics can help you overcome a bacterial infection, antiviral medicine can help with viral infections. When you get better from those infections you can stop taking the medicine and continue to be healthy.
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well … most of them … we’ve had a few “unhealthy” medicines over the years …
8Sofathoughts: "Health-y" implies it is a state of in good health. Inanimate things can't be in good health. Therefore, they should be "health-ful" foods.
5Medicine doesn't make you healthy, it treats your symptoms when you're unhealthy. A good diet, exercise, plenty of sleep, and reducing your stress makes you healthy.
5healthy is more of a modifier that narrows down the categorization of what we're discussing, less often used as a highlight of an intrinsic property. also there's the fact that medications are often saddled with less than ideal side-effects and are resorted to only as a trade-off where the issues caused are less deleterious to a patient than the issues they address, so not even they are intrinsically healthy. The reason healthy food is a concept is because the majority of people have a tendency to enjoy food that is unhealthy.
4I don't your pharmacist would approve of you downing an entire bottle of crushed pills but you be you
4Unhealthy medicine is called poison, so there's no reason to make the distinction?
4Do you mean supplements?
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