{"id":1480,"date":"2010-08-10T10:54:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T00:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2010-08-10T10:54:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T00:54:18","slug":"dr-mercola-posted-a-health-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"Dr Mercola posted a health tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Before taking any medication, ask yourself this fundamental question: do the benefits outweigh the risks?&#8221;<br \/>\nI thought of another you could ask, &#8220;Is there a food or herb that has the same or a similar action WITHOUT the down sides?&#8221; Or yet another, even better one, &#8220;What lifestyle change would I have to effect to not have the problem?&#8221; OR you could even go the whole hog and ask, &#8220;Am I willing to sacrifice my money and potentially my life to drug side effects by giving drug companies control over my health, or lack of it, or am I prepared to take responsibility for my own health and educate myself and alter my lifestyle to attain optimal health?&#8221;<br \/>\nI know, pretty heavy.<br \/>\nBut you know what?<br \/>\nThe people you leave behind think that your premature death is pretty heavy too.<br \/>\nYour call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Before taking any medication, ask yourself this fundamental question: do the benefits outweigh the risks?&#8221; I thought of another you could ask, &#8220;Is there a food or herb that has the same or a similar action WITHOUT the down sides?&#8221; Or yet another, even better one, &#8220;What lifestyle change would I have to effect to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=1480\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr Mercola posted a health tip&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}