Posted by Racer on April 15, 2004, at 18:20:04
In reply to Re: It's called PROPAGANDA » Racer, posted by cubbybear on April 14, 2004, at 3:18:40
Those omissions can be pretty major for a lot of people! It really depends on your basic diet, and what you consider Real Food, which can be pretty heavily slanted towards those foods that have to be omitted from the diet. In the winter, we eat a lot of potato soup, with sour cream in it. Holidays we eat a kind of chicken stew made with sour cream. Having to remake holiday dinners to accommodate an anti-depressant would be major for me -- and I know I'm not alone. Mexican food has a lot of sour cream, for instance, and so do a lot of other traditional ethnic diets. So, I was thinking about myself and people like me, rather than thinking about meat and potato style eating habits that might just require putting butter or something else on the potatoes rather than sour cream. Does that make more sense?
I guess it's a cultural thing: if your culturally consisten dietary habits include a lot of the foods that need to be avoided while taking MAOIs, then going on them would be a very difficult decision to make.
Does that make more sense now? I really didn't want to give the impression that I'm anti-MAOI, because I've known people for whom they really are a life saving medication. For me, though, having to give up traditional family dinners that mean so much to me and offer so much comfort for me -- well, it would be very, very difficult to choose to take them.
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