Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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Term "healthy" applies to mainly foods, but not medicines, which are in fact the most direct way to make us healthy (lemmy.ml)

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[–] habanhero 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Medicine can help bring you relief from illness, but it can't make you healthy if you were never healthy in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Agree with the message but the phrasing is slightly off.

Some people have bodies that don't function perfectly in the climate they're in, resulting in, for example, vitamin D shortage. Taking some vitamin supplements can help in that case. You were never healthy before, but are after you start taking supplements.

Sometimes these things are long term too. You can use medicine to reduce skin oil generation to combat acne. Antibiotics can help you overcome a bacterial infection, antiviral medicine can help with viral infections. When you get better from those infections you can stop taking the medicine and continue to be healthy.