I just don't understand the skepticism and criticism towards juicing!

[MysticTree]

It was less than £50 for a white filling and scale combined. I still try not to visit very often :)

[Dirkg]

Dental (or anything medical) is certainly not cheap in the US, even after my insurance. I had to get an emergency root canal and I don't even want to think about how expensive that was.What concerns and angers me most is that most people subsidize healthcare costs for those who take no care of themselves and end up with avoidable diseases.

[MysticTree]

Would cost the same here for the root canal as it cost for the scale and white filling.

[Living Food]

Actually, a much better idea would be to really study hard on the fluoridation issue then bring it up with your town/city council (or whatever body passes the laws where you live) and present enough evidence to get it banned from the drinking supply. Someone's gotta do it...why not you?

[DeniseJones]

Would cost the same here for the root canal as it cost for the scale and white filling.

You've got to love the NHS. I have an English friend who just became a US citizen and he just can't believe how healthcare works over here. He used to live in Pembrokeshire where they even get free prescriptions (did I get that right?).

[MysticTree]

yes, Wales has free prescriptions. They didn't when I lived there but it was introduced just after I left!

[DeniseJones]

That's a shame! So how much do you pay for a prescription in England now?

[MysticTree]

Eight pounds something I think ... I don't fill them on the whole :)

eta £7.65 apparently. I just looked it up!

[DeniseJones]

That's amazing considering it's a flat rate for anything. I have a friend without insurance who is paying around $350 a month for 3 prescriptions. He can't really afford it but has to have the medicine. If he lived in the UK he wouldn't have to worry about choosing medicine over paying his electricity bill. What a strange world we live in.

[Living Food]

Amazing indeed. Woohoo, free poison

Well, almost free.

[Living Food]

Maybe because in the US they give us free poison with our drinking water, the UK and other governments who mostly don't fluoridate the water feel the need to give their citizens cheap or free poison too.

[DeniseJones]

Amazing indeed. Woohoo, free poison

Well, almost free.

I'm working on my friend slowly.... I've already loaned him a juicer and juicing book. But it takes a while to change a lifetime of bad habits and 'tradditions'.

[walnutty]

If the "experts" are doctors or MD's then they are doctors of medicine, specifically prescription medication. They are NOT doctors of nutrition! Any classes, lectures, books, etc. that they can get on nutrition, we can get! Watch, "Food Matters", it really puts the responsibility of learning about healing and nutrition back in our hands! We can learn anything that an MD can learn!

RIGHT NOW, you can sign up to watch "Food Matters" for free! Here's the link: http://foodmatters.tv/2012-free-screening

[DeniseJones]

Seems to me that these days many patients know more about a specific condition that the doctors themselves. I would always go for a cure (healthy raw food diet) over a band-aid (prescription medication). Problem is with the current system is that there's more money to be made from sick people than healthy ones.

Anyway, thanks for the link. I've seen Food Matters and it's a great movie. I will be passing the link on to all my friends and work colleagues though!

[Juicerguy]

Hello Denise, and anyone else interested. Forks over knives is also a great movie if you have not seen it. It has some of the same information as does Food Matters, but is a different story and take on it. Glad to see others spreading the awesome news about juicing!