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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9351594" data-attributes="member: 6790260">My vote would be normal. The only "unhealthy" aspect of having a bald head is that it increases your exposure to solar radiation and thus increases your risk of skin cancer...but that's not really enough to matter in context. (Especially if cure disease can treat cancer.)My assumption would be that it would distinguish between amounts of fat-storage that are benign but not necessarily socially accepted, and those which actually contribute to noticeable unhealthy symptoms (like sleep apnea, atherosclerosis, type 2 diabetes, liver malfunction, etc.) Different options present themselves depending on how the curative magic works, but I think I would prefer something like a temporary metabolic rate increase to "burn off" excess calories. The patient might even experience this as a fever if they don't go out and use that energy for something.Perhaps treatment of albinism would require a donor of some kind, such as an unaffected blood relative.Well, one of the treatments for alcoholism is basically a pill that blocks the feel-good chemicals that come from drinking alcohol. (There are different compounds which perform this function, with varying effects; often it is best as a second or third line when other therapeutic methods have failed.) So perhaps a spell could just turn off your ability to feel good as a result of consuming alcohol or whatever drug is in question. Intoxication without positive feelings would generally suck and that could, in theory, quickly curtail the addictive behavior.No, but there are actual mental health conditions which people can easily confuse for laziness, such as executive dysfunction (basically, an inability to actually...do things, even when you KNOW you need to do them, even when you WANT to do them) or time management disorders (e.g. ADD, ADHD, and autism-spectrum disorders all frequently feature disruption of the subject's ability to manage, estimate, and coordinate time and tasks). "Laziness" is, more or less, choosing not to do something when you easily could, whereas the above issues are a mental or physical block which inhibits the ability to make good on one's choice to do something. Like the difference between cowardice and PTSD; the former is an elective pattern of undesirable behavior but not in itself a mark of ill health, while the latter is a mark of ill health that can disrupt one's life and lead to undesirable behavior.I mean, there's no upside to having albinism either, and it too is a genetic defect, the inheritance of two genes that both fail to produce any melanin at all.</blockquote>

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