Dear Editor: Pleased and a Bit Surprised

Dear Editor,

I was pleased and a bit surprised to read the opinion piece from Pam Hanna on the front page of last week's Ledger. Pleased that she focused so heavily on the natural strength of the human immune system and the various ways - clean diet, regular exercise, reducing stress, and good sleep - that we can aid, or at least stop undermining, those systems. Surprised because, at least from the top down, at the levels of national government and media, we rarely see such focus, and are instead constantly told that we suffer from a deficiency of pharmaceutical products.

While this piece incl...