The worse your troubles get the more pills you are given, until you reach the maximum amount our body can take.

I thought, maybe, you could be kind enough, to help us know better re matters of a psychological nature vis a vis its treatment.
Stress, for ex. causes Cortosil which tells our liver to release excess sugar your body does not need, as a result, arthritis, obesity, anxiety, insomnia, all related, are created.

Insomnia causes all the above and many, many more, at times, leading to suicidal attempts.

It is, also, known that correct methods of inhaling/exhaling and a drinking of pure water, could help reduce, tension, anxiety, phobia’s, concentration, etc.

Visualization of contended moments, added with a smile, increases our serotonin and endorphin levels in our blood stream.

Tapping on our meridians, while accepting our pain, is another method that reduces ill-effects, especially, those emotional.

Little is known that skinny people with a fat belly, are not only produced by a high intake of beer, but because beer or no beer, fat pops up in our belly because it has more Cortisol receptors in it than anywhere else in our body.

Finally I want to congratulate you on stressing on the need and value of exercise, especially when you stressed in BOLD LETTERS that running/jogging and brisk walking is detrimental to our skeletal system (anatomy), that serves as a framework for the body, especially for those suffering from knee and backache.

Air-cushioned shoes, that come in various brands, are recommended to lessen the detrimental effects of hard ground.

We are fortunate, in that, not only, can we see, sea, but, also, enjoy it’s benefits without having to harm our joints, etc.

I dare add, that those who still smoke/used to smoke, including those with little or nil knowledge, are at a greater risk of ill-effects (heart attacks), especially when exercising aggressively, hoping that they would improve their health, to concentrate better on the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables.

I will leave the remainder to you, should you please so, dear Douglas.

I cannot believe that an unofficial cartel is not in operation as otherwise market forces will favour the one with the best price and best product.

[Daphne – To have a cartel, you must have the same product brought into the country, or manufactured domestically, by at least two companies. The large pharmaceutical companies sell in Malta through official agents. Any competition must therefore come from companies working as ‘parallel traders’ – buying the same products through wholesalers or distributors outside Malta, rather than from the actual manufacturer – and selling them here in Malta. You cannot have a cartel in that situation.]

Yet in medicines everything is much higher by more or less the same percentage. Strange! I for one would applaud government if it steps in and somehow manages to get these prices to a more decent level.

[Daphne – Really, you don’t know what you’re talking about. State intervention in pricing is always a bad idea. And believe me, it leads to more corruption and cheating than you will every know. We may have missed out on the beautiful experience of state intervention in the pricing of medicines in the 1970s and 1980s, but I didn’t. Put simply, it is a situation which of necessity creates shortages in the market: if an importer doesn’t consider it worthwhile to import product X because the government is bitching on about the price and sending in its investigators – or, as was the case back then, the police – then it simply won’t import it. Businesses are there to make money, not to run charitable enterprises importing low-profit-margin or no-profit-margin products. And really, please don’t talk about ‘abroad’. It really annoys me. This is skewed vision. You can’t look at ‘abroad’ and see only the cheaper medicines. You’ve also got to consider the higher taxes, the immense costs of heating your home, that many families find one car unaffordable let alone four per household, and the rest.]

I am not against anyone making a decent profit. Very far from it. But having an (unofficial) monopoly distorts market forces completely.

Ron Paul seems to be a young earth creationist with an unhealthy appetite for excessively small government, belief in self-righting markets – an odd-ball libertarian and his son seems to be much worst…

From the Malta agent it costs €700 (and 5/6 months waiting), from past experience, when parts are unavailable.

Five hours ago my mechanic told me that a German car which I own needs to have two lambda sensors changed.

The same agent told me they cost €247 (they are available). I have just checked (online): £24.95 each. I’ll buy them online.

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Perhaps what the government really needs to do is implement some enforcement in this area such as via some sort of a “competition bureau” which ensures that there is no anti-competitive activity taking place and that all other activity by importers and merchants (not just pharma) is conducted fairly and in the spirit of a true open market system.

Regardless of any of the above, if medicines are cheaper elsewhere, what stops people from buying them from abroad? If they did so, that would certainly force merchants here in Malta to become more competitive.

The illustrious MP David Agius, is currently engaged in a crusade to actually meddle into private business companies and direct them what football rights to purchase and distribute!

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100623/local/house-committee-urges-tv-providers-to-share-services

In many a case, a G.P. who is called for a visit to attend to one person ends up ‘checking’ the whole family.

I think it is time that alternative methods are used in the healing procedures, such as herbal medicines, acupuncture, and acupressure.

When an immeasurable problem keeps churning in our minds, causing stress and heart problems, lowering of our testosterone, leading to obesity, etc, exercise (aggressive for the young and healthy) and a very long walk for the less young, is sometimes enough to get worries and negative thoughts off our minds, never forgetting the value of nutritional food instead of junk.

Ron Paul and Ayn Rand are completely different. Ron Paul is a minarchist who believes in stable currency and the individual liberty/responsibility maxim.

Ayn Rand and all her followers are deeply disturbed. The woman idolized a child molester for his ‘artwork’.

On the other, the same MLP tells us that we are being robbed because of the excess in profits, that retailers make.

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