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Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Sometimes I Am Just in AweMy last trip to the doctor was only a few months ago... some will remember my blog post about it. That was my first trip to the doctor in... well... many people have since yelled at me saying it was far too long. Yet every time I read the news these days, I wonder whether staying away from the doctor isn't one of the smartest things you can do. For instance, had I gone to the doctor more often, he probably would have told me to make sure to put on plenty of sun screen before running or biking (something I never do). This advice may be bad:
I knew of someone who used to keep a notebook for stories like this. Every time he saw an article in the paper about how X was bad for you, he would put it on one page of the book. Then he would wait for the article in the paper that said that X was good for you, and put it on the opposite page of the notebook. He quickly filled it up with studies on how coffee was bad, then good for you. Eggs are bad for you... oh wait... no they're not. Sun screen is very important... no wait... it leads to skin cancer. I actually don't find this news very surprising. People have been more conscious of skin cancer over the last 10 or 15 years, and more and more people are religious about sun screen. Yet the incidence of skin cancer continues to go up. Maybe there was a connection. Go figure.
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