Medicines don’t really make you healthy though, they fix you up when you’re unhealthy.
I don’t think I agree with you on this. Medicines may be a way to treat illness, but if we’re talking about health as a state of being as in, without the need for medical intervention, then I would have to say that the things that have the most direct impact are food and access to food, activity level, and environmental factors such as air and water quality and housing. But anyways!
Medicine can help bring you relief from illness, but it can’t make you healthy if you were never healthy in the first place.
Agree with the message but the phrasing is slightly off.
Some people have bodies that don’t function perfectly in the climate they’re in, resulting in, for example, vitamin D shortage. Taking some vitamin supplements can help in that case. You were never healthy before, but are after you start taking supplements.
Sometimes these things are long term too. You can use medicine to reduce skin oil generation to combat acne. Antibiotics can help you overcome a bacterial infection, antiviral medicine can help with viral infections. When you get better from those infections you can stop taking the medicine and continue to be healthy.
well … most of them … we’ve had a few “unhealthy” medicines over the years …
Sofathoughts: “Health-y” implies it is a state of in good health. Inanimate things can’t be in good health. Therefore, they should be “health-ful” foods.
