"Our Health Obsession"- Frank Furedi English 100 Agueda Gomez

     In "Our Health Obsession", by Frank Furedi, the author writes about society being obsessed with health. He says that there are four main reasons to why people are obsessed with being ill. This obsession exists in imparitive of medicalisatia, which means that government has found a disease to every problem you can possibly think of. Furedi gives an example on how even shyness has been diagnosed as "social phobia" in which doctors will probably wants to find a drug to cure this problem. The author's second reason to the illness obsession is the presupposition that illness is as normal as health. Today's people flaunt about being cancer survivors, but not embarrasing diseases such as gingivitis. This can result in not being able to get rid of an illness because that illness becomes a part of the person's identity. The third reason why Furedi believes that people are obsessed with being ill is because people use health to make sense of the human experience. For instance, people face to healath to save them from circumstances of moral or spiritual disorientation. Finally, Furedi expalins how politicisation of health relates to this obsession. Furedi explains that politicians try to promote health related topics with the purpose of getting money. This is why society makes you believe that you are more ill than you really are.
     I think this topic of health was rather interesting because I was able to connect with my nutrition class. In my nutrition class, I have learned about how corrupt the government is even when it comes to the health of its people. In last night's class, we watched  video a doctor who invented a formula that clearly stopped tumors and even cured cancer in more most of the patients cases. We also learned how this formula is not allowed to be practiced by doctors in the United States and is only found in Mexico, Japan, and Europe, I think. We learned how government has suppressed this formula for over 75 years and call this doctor crazy and never published his books. This formula persisted of a high concentration on juices freshly extracted from vegetables and fruits. I believe that this formula works because their is proof and the United States does not want people to know because the pharmacy would lose billions of dollars if Americans were to turn to this less-expensive remedy.