I keep reading articles describing food as medicine, describing how vegetables and fruit are especially healthy. Saying so implies vegetables and fruit are abnormal, things you have to go out of your way for, and doof is normal.

People can define normal how they want, but to me, fresh fruits and vegetables are normal. From my perspective, food isn’t medicine. It’s normal, as is health. Doof is poison and abnormal, something we’d have to go out of our way for.

In other words, food is medicine like not hitting head against wall is medicine. Doof is like hitting your head against the wall. There’s no mystery where your headache comes from if you do it.

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