Another day, another scary pill...

Listening to ads about pharmaceuticals can be a frightening experience. The specific ailment that the pill in question will cure is usually referred to in passing with lovely visuals of happy dancing, running, joyful people.....and then there are the list of possible side effects. "Your liver might explode. Could cause paralysis, blindness, deafness. Your left arm may fall off. You could become impotent......"

Certainly mentioning indications are important, but it just sort of runs against the grain of many sales practices, doesn't it?

Reports have now emerged recently that even Vitamin E in certain doses could DIE. Heavens! An excellent piece by Steven Milloy on the flaws of the study that produced the "sound-the-alarm" alert ran today here.

I am beginning to think that the only way to maintain perfect health is to be hermetically sealed.