I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I love celery and people don't use it a lot. Celery and flavors in that family - it really brightens and is refreshing.
Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.
Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.
We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century,' and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.
Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.
I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.
Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.
Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.
For my money, celery hasn't got a mean bit of fibre in its body, and we all need to start being much nicer to it.