Termyn8or
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Lev, frankenfoods, I like that term. Yes I have heard it before.
One of the main things the industry has screwed with is fats. And it didn't start yesterday either. Crisco and margarine have been around for a long time. If one were to plot a graph showing hydrogenated fat use and refined sugar use per capita, one would find a correlation to certain diseases. But not to jump into post hoc ergo propter hoc here, I must explain this, as it relates to my theory.
Sugar does not rot your teeth. Not at all. Never did. Sugar causes tooth decay through inducing a form of osteoporosis. I guess it does rot them, but it does so from the inside. But remember this is affecting every bone in the body, and teeth are bones.
Sugar does this by speeding up certain metabolic processes beyong the body's needs, and thus wastes valuable mineral content, even simply by speeding up the digestive process, the intestines are not given enough time to absorb all the mineral content in what one has eaten, even if they do eat a diet rich in essentials.
But it does more than that. By making the pancreas also work overtime, it is like what a drinker does to his liver. Now let's touch on alcohol for a secind, because it is very similar to sugar. Sugar is CHO and alcohol is CHO, so what is the difference ? Does alcohol really destroy the liver ? No. Does sugar really destroy the pancreas ? No.
The use of these substances without an accompamying diet that is richer in essentials will bring on these problems, because it is the deficiency of the essentials that kills organs.
Pile on top of that these frankenfats that combine with some of the essentials in the intestines and render them unabsorbable and you have a recipe for a big doctor bill. Olestra is about the worst culprit, and actually has the effect documented, yet it passed FDA muster for whatever reason. That is yet another subject, how they get away with it.
And then we have the use of powerful dessicants in table salt to prevent clumping which not only cause the sodium in the so called salt not to be absorbed properly, once in the system, has a negative effect on all essential mineral absorption.
So to sum it up, get it through your head, these slow poisons do not kill by being directly toxic, but they can render the healthiest diet in the world ineffective if abused enough. You excrete what you should absorb. And possibly absorb what you should excrete.
Now mind you that the medical community will not provide facts on this so there is very little direct evidence. But there is a sea of indirect evidence that many fail to piece together. I'll admit there are some holes in my theory, but it is substantial enough to have holes.
And as I've said before, to keep it logical : Not EVERY disease is caused by a deficiency, but a sustained deficiency WILL cause disease.
And it can do it by directly impairing the operation of one or more essential internal organs, or by weakening the immune system making one more susceptible to infection.
My theory might not be complete, but it seems to work for me. You know people with bad bad morning breath, I am not one of them. You know people who really need two showers a day in the summer, I am not one of them.
Bad breath is caused either by what is in the mouth or in the lungs. Bad body odor is caused by what is excreted through the skin.
Everything in there is something you inhaled, drank or ate, no exceptions. Now if your body is excreting these nasty substances, doesn't it make sense to look for the root cause ?
Food for thought. Bon appetite. This subject is immense and I will not even try to pretend to deal with it in one day.
Suffice it to say though, that there are many many things I refuse to eat. Many others which I severely limit, like carbs. I have been researching this for about ten years now, and my health has improved over that time. I have grown new cartilage at the knees, capped a tooth, and have not lost a hair.
But I have done more than that. I have reduced overall intake, and now my body has sufficient time to absorb all it can from the remaining things I am willing to eat.
Within what one eats, I believe there is a certain "mineral signature" if I may coin a phrase, that we need. And while the medical community likes to stick it's head in the sand and pretend it is the same for everybody, I choose to explore facts. By mineral signature I mean a certain balance, or ratio between the minerals in your total diet.
Different people need different mineral signatures for optimum health. This depends upon genetics and lineage, as well as lifestyle and occupation and location. Very complex factors.
The thing is though, if you sort of cover all the bases, that is get more than enough of all the essentials in properly absorbable form, the excess should not hurt you.
To sum it up, I refuse sugar, table salt, anything hydrogenated and any frankenfoods. I only drink water and beer since I stopped drinking coffee and milk. I avoid carbs, but not completely, you need some carbs, I just think Americans get about 20 times as much as they need.
My diet isn't fatty, when I cook bacon it is to the point where it is brittle, and basically gets pulverized on a BLT. When I fry my killer chicken sandwiches in bacon grease I am sure to let it drain.
I am careful with bacon grease, the only way to make it is by eating bacon, and that is not something I want to eat alot of. Some yes, but not alot. Then when you fry chicken in it the leftover must be discarded. So don't think I am over here drinking it. Bacon grease outperforms any oil I have ever seen, is a natural product and can be reused as long as you don't fry meat in it. On some occasions, when it is time for some carbs I'll fry some potatoes in it. Kicks ass, but like I said, the food is well drained before I eat it.
This path is not easy. Any decent cheese can approach $10 a pound. Good food costs money. If you choose the path you will eat less, but it will likely cost you more money. But what is your health worth ?
More later. I hope I covered a few things though. S, sugar is bad for you, calories are not the whole story. To me, sugar is as bad as cocaine, has similar effects and actually is grown in similar areas of the world and is refined in a strikingly similar method. They want the root chemical, removing all others. Sounds like a drug to me.
Think about it
More later.
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