Cure for all diseases?

I have met several people who claim to have cures to different ailments. My first experience with these guys was a day in Aleshinloye market in Ibadan. I was in a shop, when a man stopped in front with a wheel barrow full of rotten donkey body parts (literally, I’m not exaggerating). I was shocked and had shivers when he started talking about all the things that could be cured with the parts, I couldn’t imagine anybody deliberately ingesting poison but the market women didn’t see it as poison; as long as someone claimed it worked, they took it hook, line and sinker. Another day in Lagos, I got on a mass transit bus, as we left the motor park, a man stood up in front of the bus and started addressing us about our health. He started bringing out powder after powder and he claimed they could cure all kinds of illnesses. He told the passengers that it wasn’t possible for anyone to be in good health and they always have to take something to live well. By the time the bus had gotten to its destination, he had sold all the ‘powder’ he had for sale in the bus.


The latest one I heard about today is people going to offices to give health talks and do a total body scan with a ‘machine’. The machine is very believable, because you’ll see your body being ‘scanned’ as they do it. After which, several diagnosis will be given and you’ll be told that to cure the ailments, you need to buy some drugs they have for sale. There are several stories that can be said, but the truth is not much thought is given to these claims a lot of times. Sometimes, it’s our friends and people close to us that give us harmful health advice, but just as you probably won’t jump into a fire because someone close to you says so, so you should be careful about things you take into your body that can be harmful . It’s very easy for anyone to make claims all in a bid to make money or become an ‘expert’ in a field or even try to be of help, but it’s important to always ask questions and not just believe anything anyone says. This is not to say that you should discard every advice given to you, but as the Holy Book says ‘test every spirit’, so in this case- test every information you’re given. Always ask questions. Ask yourself, who is saying it? What training do they have?

Is the source reliable? Can the information be verified? Is it evidence based? Check other sources, are there any conflicting reports about this information? For online health information, Is the site a reputable site? Is the information only on the site of one person promoting a product/a company that wants to push it out? Is it found anywhere else on the internet? "If you don’t take care of your body, where are you going to live?"- Unknown