What are the cumulative psychic and economic tolls (on a person, and on a nation) of conflating discomfort and disease?
Hold on, Snyderman might counter. If even one life is saved by the standard medical rigmarole —and that life could be yours — is it not all worthwhile in the end?
You, reader, have undoubtedly already decided which author is a sage and which one a lunatic, which advice is sound, and which is simply misguided. And that is the final thought-provoking lesson. Our health beliefs are so deeply ingrained that data, admonitions, guidelines and oceans of ink on reams of paper will seldom dissuade us from believing what we want to be true.
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