There’s a bit of a craze in the world in regards to personal health. That’s not to say when you are ill that you should disregard symptoms or demean others with illnesses. Yet, only yesterday did I come home to a debate between my roommates on the best way to expel ‘toxins’ from the body. That is the topic revolved around  trends they heard that would make you ‘more healthy’ and  less full of the  poisonous substances that seem to be lurking in all our veins. Some of these ideas seem great like eating more vegetables, drinking green tea and  exercising daily. While, other things,  like following a strict vegan diet while consuming only water every other day , as one of my roommates suggested, seems extreme at the least. A great source to these ideas of health seems to come from the media. As Ben Goldacre points out in his TED talk  ”Battling bad science’ media outlets love to publish articles like ‘ House Work Prevents Cancer’ and inform us that we are ill in some way and they can fix it. Even the pharmaceutical companies that are supposed to be proving hard data for potentially damaging drugs bias and skew their results to their economic favour. Its no wonder than that we worry about the potential toxins in our bodies when  we  notice vital information is being withheld. Becoming ill is a dramatic topic in a sense, it can remind you of your mortality which in turns feeds the media who produce bogus articles on WiFi cancer prevention.