Nowadays, people are going for alternatives instead of meeting their doctor for health problems. Is this a positive or negative development?

At present, there is a significant growth of

people

trying out certain unfamiliar

treatments

instead

of meeting their family doctor for their

health

issues. In my opinion,

this

should be viewed as a negative development because the majority of alternatives are not good for

health

long term and they do not have evidence that cures a

health

issue.

To begin

with, there is a growing tendency to use some uncommon

treatments

by

people

without using their usual drugs and

this

is mainly driven by the toxic commercial advertisements. It has become apparent that

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people

always go for the alternatives which give faster results.

This

is

similarly

applied

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health

concerns as well. Advertisers are well aware of

this

and persuade the public to buy the product. Because of

this

inspiration,

people

tend to purchase even without concern about its long-term effect on

health

and reject their usual medicine.

For example

, a group of scientists

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the University of California found that

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a drink marketed as a promising drug for diabetes contained cancer-causing ingredients.

Furthermore

, those alternative

treatments

have no evidence of curing disease

although

they are promoted as proven results. The

people

who promote those placebos are usually not medical practitioners and even they might not have the qualifications.

For example

, in the United Kingdom, there was a sudden emergence of medicine that was marketed as curing migraine. A huge commercial campaign was organized to make

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the public and

consequently

, the majority of migraine patients shifted to

this

drug by abandoning the use of usual medicine.

However

, investigations found that

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the person who was behind

this

scenario had no right to introduce

such

a product to society. Thereby, we can imagine how effective that product would be for migraine. In conclusion,

people

are highly influenced to go for alternative

treatments

and drugs for

health

concerns

instead

of taking medical advice.

This

should be seen as a negative development because the alternatives may be detrimental to the

health

and often they have no evidence of curing the diseases.