Organization: NetRunner's Paradise BBS, San Diego CA
Newsgroups: alt.med.cfs
Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:50:59 PST
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From:         "(ronald hill)" <rhill@NETRUN.CTS.COM>
Subject:      "Health-Nut" Quiz

        Health-Nut Exam

        by Ron Hill

        Are you a "health-nut"?  Take this handy quiz (but don't take
it too seriously!).  Contributions are welcome. (Some questions were
adapted from "Computa-Holics Exam" from GENIE)


        Do your health-related books and papers weigh more then you do?


        Do you have personallized licence plates like: CFS-HEAD,
VITA-MIN, HEALTH-NUT?

        Do you take health magazines to the toliet with you?

        Do the people at the health food store all know you by name?
Do you know them by name?

        Do you work in a health-related field and say "why do they pay
me to have this much fun?"

        Do you subscribe to more then five health magazines?

        Do you constantly lose important phone numbers and info under
piles of health books and magazines?

        When your lover says "it's too hot, I think I'll slip into
something more comfortable", do you worry about the effect of the heat
on your health?

        Do you buy the new editions of health books, but keep the
older, out of date editions, for reasons you can't quite explain?
        Do you worry that the diets of characters on TV will be a bad
influence on people?

        Do you feel bad if you didn't do something for your health
today?

        Do you have pictures of "health gurus" on your wall?

        Do you think about your health more then sex?

        Do you think about your health while HAVING sex?

        Have you spent more then two hours looking for a specific
health article?  And did you wonder why it was so important to find it
after you did?

        Do you find yourself correcting people who know less about
health then you do?

        Do you turn down dates because the person is not "nutrionally
correct"?

        Do you have ANY health related videos?

        Are you yellow?  (Carrot-juice drinkers only)

        Do you burst out laughing when your spouse is talking and
magages to make a completely hidden reference outside of the context of
the subject which is hilarious when applied as a health-related joke?

        Are you constantly trying to find a "better Homeopathic
remedy", a "better health book.", or "a better brand of Vitamin C?

        Do you know the NAMES of more then five health book authors?
        Do you find yourself using expressions like "this treatment
costs 'ONLY' five-hundred dollars?

        Have you seen more then three health care professionals this
year?

        Do you ponder "who was the most health-consious Beatle?"

        Have you written a "health song" or poem?

        Have you ever taken a vitamin or mineral not because you were
sick, but just to "see what would happen"?

        Have your bookshelves given out due to the strain of the health
books?

        Do you start new treatments before your last treatment had a
chance to work?

        Do you read health-related newsletters or computer newgroups?


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rhill@netrun.cts.com (ronald hill)
NetRunner's Paradise BBS, San Diego CA
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