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Is today's society becoming too dependent on medication? We're using medications as a crutch to not address and tackle the issues to dealing with health concerns. It seems it is because every other commercial or print ad that you see it's for some kind of medication. We're so used to fixing everything with a pill we don't even stop and look at addressing the issues to why we're popping a pill to fix something that could just simply be a lifestyle change. This is pretty prevalent that we're relying on a pill to solve a problem and it will all go away.

We are not taking care of ourselves as well as we should be doing since there's an even bigger percentage of sickness and illnesses that weren't even around 30 years ago to the point that it's at now. There's more obesity and other diseases that were totally unheard of 25 years ago that are now coming back with a vengeance and are now in mutated strands that are resistant to the current line of medications that are out here. Plus you have people that are not sticking to their medical treatments as instructed by their doctors or specialists. We don't want to address issues with health especially African-Americans, this came from watching the Bravo show Work Out when personal trainer Jackie Warner was talking to a client of hers while reviewing her progress at the gym and how she was gaining weight and wasn't following her routine and the client was making excuses about how other priorities and school was more important instead of taking accountability for her lifestyle choices, but Warner's comment was along the lines of a lot of blaming, excuses, and not being accountable for one's actions. It's shocking to hear that from a personal trainer to say this to someone who clearly wasn't concerned with her health and lifestyle.

It was a reality shock on how African-Americans don't even pay much attention to their health and how this girl was totally made me even more aware of my health as a black woman. It's even more important that blacks need to rely less on medication to fix problems and address the issues with a change in diet and lifestyle choices since we indulge a lot with smoking and drinking and not eating healthy diets. We're on medications for a lot of common diseases and illnesses, but we haven't really gotten to the point where we can start to function without popping a pill for something. Black men have no clue that diabetes and hypertension-which strikes a great number of African-Americans can

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