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"It's good for you"

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"It's good for you" seems to be a quite acceptable thing to say....except it's a sweeping statement that therefore cannot be true (in most cases).

"A glass of red wine is good for you." I reply no, it's quite terrible for me and others who have a few of the health problems it is actually bad for. I get this response: :confused: or :rolleyes: or :boggled:, usually followed by an insistence that I'm wrong.

I once followed some medical advice given by a nurse practitioner regarding a certain vitamin and had a medical emergency as a result...all because "it's good for you".

Is there food/drink/nutrient that is always good for you?:D
 
Even the ones that are absolutely required have maximum limits before it stops being good for you and instead becomes a poison.
 
imagineaa said:
"It's good for you" seems to be a quite acceptable thing to say....except it's a sweeping statement that therefore cannot be true (in most cases).

"A glass of red wine is good for you." I reply no, it's quite terrible for me and others who have a few of the health problems it is actually bad for. I get this response: :confused: or :rolleyes: or :boggled:, usually followed by an insistence that I'm wrong.

I once followed some medical advice given by a nurse practitioner regarding a certain vitamin and had a medical emergency as a result...all because "it's good for you".

Is there food/drink/nutrient that is always good for you?:D
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I'd been taking Niacin just before bed.
Then last Friday, took one upon arising.
The itching started almost immediately.
Then came the mostly overall red skin!
I looked at the label (finally) and it said.. can cause itching and flushing... don't take on an empty stomach. :)
 
You name it, and I'll find someone in my family that can't eat it. We have various milk allergies/intolerances, some coeliacs, and one on a low potassium diet and probably more I've forgotten about.
 
If there is anything that is always good for you regardless of quantity or concentration we haven't found it yet.

Water + too much too quickly = water intoxication

Oxygen + too much too concentrated in the blood = oxygen toxicity

Sodium + too much = elevated blood pressure, stroke and cardiovascular disease


And those are three things that you absolutely need to live.
 
imagineaa said:
"It's good for you" seems to be a quite acceptable thing to say....except it's a sweeping statement that therefore cannot be true (in most cases).

"A glass of red wine is good for you." I reply no, it's quite terrible for me and others who have a few of the health problems it is actually bad for. I get this response: :confused: or :rolleyes: or :boggled:, usually followed by an insistence that I'm wrong.

I once followed some medical advice given by a nurse practitioner regarding a certain vitamin and had a medical emergency as a result...all because "it's good for you".

Is there food/drink/nutrient that is always good for you?:D
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Water in some form is necessary for you to maintain life. So yes (note,you need a specific amount - necessary to hold off dehydration and allow your body to eliminate sufficient waste but too much may cause problems). Most base nutrients are the same, you need a minimum amount of many to maintain normal health/life. But technically, nothing is good for you in excess or if you are allergic/have killer reactions to some form of it - then you substitute or die.
 
imagineaa said:
"It's good for you" seems to be a quite acceptable thing to say....except it's a sweeping statement that therefore cannot be true (in most cases).
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But surely the saying originated because it is true in most cases.
 
As long as it's not prefaced with...."We're from the government and...."
 
TX50 said:
But surely the saying originated because it is true in most cases.
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The problem is with the arrogance or stupidity of the person making the statement, who doesn't care about the distinction between something being good, as a statistical average, and being good for any given individual in a specific case. Yet the latter is what he or she is dealing wtih.

He or she is showing a lack of concern about the person in front of him or her, as an individual. That never ends well.
 
Is there food/drink/nutrient that is always good for you?
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The dose makes the poison. So no.

Pup said:
He or she is showing a lack of concern about the person in front of him or her, as an individual. That never ends well.
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In most cases, I would disagree. We're all Homo sapien sapien, and we know a fair bit about H. sapien physiology. Sure, there are exceptions to everything, but when you just start out it's best to assume that the person walking into the doctor's office isn't the 1 in 1,000,000 case. Sure, if you find out that they ARE you adjust your knowledge accordingly--but to reject the knowledge you have about the species merely because you're dealing with an individual would render any caregiver incapable of giving care. We'd have to re-run each medical trial for each person. We'd have to xray each person to figure out what kinds of bones they have--wait, no, they may react differently to xrays than everyone else! I meant that last bit to be a joke, not sure if it came out right.....Anyway, my point is we have some general knowledge of a person simply by virtue of them being a person, and we all use that to build our analysis of the individual on. Which means that yeah, we're going to treat the person as the average human being, until they give us reason to think otherwise. The average person takes Tylenol or Asprin for pain and doesn't have any serious consequences, so for mild pain, assuming the person is a human, I'll give them one of those medicines. The average person doesn't die if they eat salmon, so if you came over I'd cook that tonight for dinner.
 
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