Same sickness, different outcome

"The sick man of Asia" was the name for China many years ago during the Qing dynasty. The reasons cover from internal decay to opium. The opium business had driven the wealth from China to England. That means the sickness had done nothing good for China.

According to "Making Health Care the Engine That Drives the Economy", it seems that America may soon be the "The sick man of the world". Yet, it is said to be a contribution to the economy.

If it will be so, then being health may be taken as bad for the national economy. Of course, that is not a good thing at all.

Health is the best thing for human. Perhaps good medication makes everyone careless about his or her health. Perhaps there is not enough investment for research about how not to be sick. That is the sad truth today.

Another proof that all of us would be confused by so-called expert's advice

Just check "Good Fish, Bad Fish" and it is clear that some advice may lead us to unhealthy state instead.

Of course, there is always such kind of argument in science. We cannot say that certain reports were bad or untrue. Besides some hidden reasons, the problem is due to the testing data or the methods used. We are not scientists and so we should not believe in whatever they said. That is the only way we can avoid such traps.

I believe that with today's competition and efficient way of broadcasting, there is no way to stop those fallacies. We have to build up our own knowledge of what to believe.

For example, there was a report about oysters many years ago. The report said that if someone took one lb. of oysters continuously for two months, he/she would be dead. Some of my friends were worry because they forgot that no one in the world would be so stupid to take oysters as daily food for months.

We should know from our ancestors that this type of seafood should be taken occasionally and best in the right season with limited quantities. We do not need any advice unless we forgot the precious experience that our ancestors had given us from generations' experience.

However, this is the real problem today that such hereditary wisdom, which the development of the human race has relied on, has been disregarded. Perhaps this is one of the reasons for the loss of previous civilization. Let's hope that such history would not be repeated again.