Are Medicinal Drugs Truly Safe?

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Are Medicinal Drugs Safe For You and Your Family?

The truth is that even the so-called “safe” medicinal drugs aren’t totally harmless.  In an average twelve-month period, more than 1.5 million hospitalized people suffer from the side effects of the medicinal drugs and therapy they receive there.  Aspirin alone sends about 1,600 people to the hospital each year who die from gastric bleeding. Drug interaction also creates a serious problem.  Some individual medicinal drugs may be relatively benign, but taken together they can be deadly.  According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the average American senior citizen is given more than fifteen prescriptions each year.  Sometimes, these come from doctors who aren’t aware of the other medications the patient may be taking, and that could lead to tragedy if the drugs cause a toxic reaction.

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Are Children Drinking Enough Water?

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Are You Sure Your Children are Drinking Enough Water?

There’s one simple liquid that has a huge effect on how well your family feels today: water.

Yes, good old water. More than half of children and teenagers in the United States might not be properly hydrated, but even if they’re drinking water they’re still not getting the good stuff. In fact, 54.5% of the students in the study had urine concentrations that qualified them as below their minimum daily water intake. I was surprised to discover that almost one in four kids drank no water during the course of their day, according to the latest research. And get this: not all children and adolescents were equally dehydrated, according to the study. Boys surveyed were 76% more likely to be inadequately hydrated than girls, which was a statistically significant finding.

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The Military, Medications, and Accidental Deaths

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The Military, Medications, and How Accidental Death Can Result

For years, the military has worried that an over-reliance on prescription “painkillers” was putting both veterans and active-duty troops at risk of addiction, serious adverse reactions to the drugs, and accidental death. The problem was found to be greatest among veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan—particularly those with post-traumatic stress disorder. These men and women, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, may have been given “inappropriate prescriptions” for opioids in a misguided attempt to quickly relieve their suffering.

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Good Health is a Process

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“I don’t know who or what to believe! I heard that fat is bad for me, but then somebody tells me how good flax oil is for you . . . and yet it’s fat. Then I heard carbohydrates were bad for me and I should eat more protein, like the Atkins diet . . . and then the Atkins guy dies of a heart attack, and I find out that the high-protein diet makes you toxic. One doctor tells you this and another tells you that. It seems that when it comes to good health, nobody can seem to agree.”

The statistics support this truth: We are rich in “money, stuff, and things,” but we’re very poor in our health. Ouch.

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