Posted by Gracie2 on October 29, 2001, at 20:56:01
In reply to I have some questions . . . , posted by Greg A. on October 29, 2001, at 17:48:52
I must add that I am getting really, really tired of all the endless restrictions and rules and the
countless warnings of how everything we eat or drink, every drug we take, everything we do - the music we listen to, the programs we watch on TV,
the cars we drive, the cleaning solutions we use in our house, the way we raise our kids - how harmful and wrong it all is.
As far as I'm concerned, laudanum should still be available OTC. I love good coffee and fine wine and beef stroganoff. I love my little Nissan and would rather go to Barnes & Noble than the gym.
Think about two things that have happened rather recently; the "French Paradox" - where researchers had to grudgingly admit that the French appeared to be living longer and healthier lives because they drink red wine;
and Linda McCartney, wife of Paul McCartney, who was a devoted vegetarian ("never eat anything with a face") and published several cookbooks on
eating to live a healthy life; she died at a fairly young age of breast cancer.
I'm just not convinced that it's entirely worth it to drink Evian, eat a macrobiotic diet, swallow cartloads of vitamins and work out regularly, just to step off the curb and be run over by a bus. I'm not condoning alcoholism or drug abuse or gluttony, but I do believe that moderation is preferable to the self-flagellation of complete abstinence...unless, of course, that is "your thing". Great, good for you, but leave the rest of us out of it.
-Gracie
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