Maggie's Farm

Healthism appeals to people at a very basic level. You don't need to sell it or even explain it well it seems to be intuitive. It is why we believe there are good foods and bad foods. It is intuitively true because I knew someone who ate too many sweets and "caught" diabetes or I knew someone who drank too many sodas and they are overweight. It appeals to our biases and what we learned at our mothers knee. It should be obvious to anyone that "fat" is bad and lettuce is good, right? It is just such a seductive belief system. I can get a CT scan once a year and catch cancer before it spreads. I can take mega doses of vitamins and never catch a cold or the flu. It is or should be obvious to everyone that with all the "toxins" in vaccines that they are unsafe. The list of mistaken beliefs and misunderstanding of health/biology/science is too long to overcome.