[Buttons12]

Pregnant women want pickles. Well, pickles are a food source that serves an anti-microbial function. During organogenesis, women avoid foods that, on average, might have a higher load of pathogens and crave foods that might help their body resolve the fact that they could have ingested some teratogens. Women throw up as a built-in mechanism to guard against the possibility of having been exposed to pathogens, and they do this (without any conscious volition) to protect the fetus.

Echoes of Pangloss.

[Twinkie]

People are generally too quick to want to prevent the
body’s natural defense reactions that are totally
spontaneous. So, they reach for the Imodium AD at the
first sign of a little diarrhea. . when the body may just
be attempting to rid itself of internal poisons (from
tainted food or what ever).

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Echoes of Pangloss."

Or a Just-So Story.