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I can't believe this. I go away to go hiking for ONE DAY and the entire thread degenerates into a flame war. After my Calvin and Hobbes cartoons in Post 1177 and Post 1178, too. ;-) [Self-aggrandizing attempt to provide peacemaking by offering myself as a target common to both sides placemarker.]

I stand behind what I have said. Modern medicine heals the wounded and cures disease.

Maybe you forgot the old saw, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"?

Or the old cigarette commercials from the 1950's, "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette" ??

Many things dietary and medical related are done, or left undone, because of commercial considerations, or because of the inability to test for long-term effects.

I think what editor is trying to get at here, is that sometimes there is a better way to health than throwing medical care at something--simply by maintaining health in the first place.

As G.K. Chesterton wrote in The Man Who Was Thursday, "The most poetic thing in the world is not being sick."

Cheers!

I think what editor is trying to get at here, is that sometimes there is a better way to health than throwing medical care at something--simply by maintaining health in the first place.

ES's own words are clear on the matter, and don't support your interpretation. He does appear to favour clean living and good diet but that is far from the end of the story.