Quiet whispers...

Hey everybody! How's it going today? Alright, so here I am writing once more. Today's subject has to do with health. I know many people like "junk food", but not all "junk food" is necessaily bad for you. Not to say that it's the best in nutrients for you, but it's less junk than other junk. What we have to stay away from are artificial flavours and colours. If you look at most chocolate bars, you'll probably find both on them. And they don't list the artificial ingredients, rather, they just say "artificial flavors and colours". It's like when they say "may contain traces of nuts", but don't really specify which ones.

I think the "consumer" tends to eat and slowly poison him-/herself rather than eat to stay healthy. Of course, we can't always be tight-'rsed about things, but we shouldn't be eating "bad" things too often. Smokers, too, are a bit nutty. If they read the ingredients on the package, it does say "benzene" on there. So why don't they just drink some gas when they're filling up at the gas station? It also has acetaldehyde (or "ethanol") which is supposedly the chemical that causes "hangovers". 1,3-Butadiene is another ingredient which at "acute high exposure" will damage the central nervous system. All of this can be found on many sites, so just feel free to search for yourselves!

And the last one is alcohol of any sort. The basic thing is that it can cause cancer. This is basically our friend "ethanol" again. To quote a source:

"Studies have suggested that high concentrations of acetaldehyde, which is produced as the body breaks down ethanol, could damage DNA in healthy cells. … Researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in Bethesda, Maryland, have added weight to this idea by showing that the damage occurs at concentrations of acetaldehyde similar to those in saliva and the gastrointestinal tract while people drink alcohol. Acetaldehyde appears to react with polyamines - naturally occurring compounds essential for cell growth - to create a particularly dangerous type of mutagenic DNA base called a Cr-Pdg adduct…"

And we're aware of alcohol damaging the liver and so on, among many other things. So people out there, from fetuses to the living dead, why do you want to lose your mind and your body? And last but not least, we have to add in the chemicals we use to "freshen" things up. Aluminum chloride found in anti-perspirants contributes to neurotoxicity. The air fresheners used (either the ones you plug in or you spray like a madwoman...or man) are not the healthiest. They contain carcinogens and who knows what other "unknown" side effects they may cause (well, the companies know but most people don't). Just search "air freshener toxicity" (on a search engine) and you'll find some web pages.

Feel free to ask questions. Thanks.

"Dr. John"