Day 1,945: nausea, pancreatitis, diarrhoea, medicalisation, binge

Their immediate side-effects, which can include nausea, pancreatitis, diarrhoea and muscle loss, may be off-putting; the effects from decades of taking them are uncertain. Some worry about the medicalisation of everyday life, and whether people will binge, knowing they can fall back on a cure.

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Artwork of the day 
Black binge
Andre_Derain
Date: c.1943
Style: Expressionism,Neoclassicism
Genre: nude painting (nu)

Word of the day 
nausea: the feeling that you are going to vomit:
pancreatitis: a condition that causes pain and swelling in the pancreas (= the organ in the body that produces insulin)
diarrhoea  (UK (US diarrhea)): an illness in which the body's solid waste is more liquid than usual and comes out of the body more often:
medicalisation: the act of considering something to be a medical problem, or representing it as a medical problem:
binge: to eat too much of something:

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