ALL NATURAL. It is used like a truncheon on the public. It is as if it is an end all be all of GOOD. Mercury. Poison Mushrooms. Cauliflower. Things just ain't that simple.
All Natural Arsenic
The naturalistic fallacy – the notion that all things natural are good (and therefore the unnatural must be bad) is pervasive in our culture, and quite dangerous when applied to medicine. In the context of food and medicine an unhealthy reverence for nature takes the form of assuming that something which is natural must be magically safe and effective. Of course, nature does not care about us and it is more often toxic and deadly than helpful. In the US the word “natural” is used as a marketing ploy to convey a sense that a product is good and wholesome. This is combined with a terribly unscientific scheme for categorizing foods vs drugs vs supplements and regulating health claims about them. The end result is that the public is being sold many drugs as if they were vitamins...
The latest example of this situation is the discovery that popular herbal kelp supplements are contaminated with arsenic.
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