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The Seven Sins of Civilization
    #7534630 - 10/19/07 09:34 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Found this article and thought it was pretty interesting.
Not saying I agree with or endorse everything in here (I happen to like fish and think it's good for me.. although I think the "flesh" section refers mostly to red meat).. but for the most part I agree with most everything in here even though I already knew most of this stuff and a lot is common knowledge. It's a fairly old article but still applies... still good to be reminded sometimes.


Seven Sins of Civilization


Salt

Nothing is so misleading as to think we need salt for minerals (the best source of minerals are fruits and vegetables, everything else is second rate or toxic to the system). Salt is undoubtedly the number one health destroyer. It's the leading cause of all heart and kidney diseases. If one out of every two deaths in this country alone are attributed to heart diseases, then it stands to reason salt is the #1 health destroyer - agreed? Salt is a deadly inorganic substance and contains no organic minerals, vitamins, enzymes or nutrients. It has a drying effect on the entire body and dries out the hair and scalp (other than stress, salt is the chief cause of baldness).

Facts: Salt

* Water logs the tissues
* Robs the calcium from the body
* Paralyzes the 260 taste buds in the mouth
* Is a heart poison
* Increases irritability of the nervous system
* Is a deadly poison to all fowl
* Is a leading cause of high blood pressure

To show you how toxic salt is, chemically broken down (sodium chloride) it's a lethal poison--stay away from it. The reason why you drink so much water after you eat salt (or salt pills) is that your body is trying to wash the poisons out of your stomach via the kidneys. Once salt has been completely eliminated from the diet and normal natural eating habits are formed. It'll take from one to three years to rid the body of the toxic poisons the salt caused!


Refined Sugar

I couldn't begin to tell you all the hazards of eating sugar. Countless books and articles have been written about this second health destroyer.

There's nothing so expensive as ignorance in action, so gather more information about this lifeless health destroyer.

Facts: Sugar

* Is the leading cause of stress
* Increases blood sugar level
* Depletes all the B-vitamins
* Leaches all the calcium from the hair, blood, bones and teeth (the chief reason for so much tooth decay in children is from the junk sugar foods). This is truly the second most deficient and toxic food on the face of the earth. Treat it as a poison!!
* Develops high blood cholesterol
* Causes arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries)
* Over stimulates the production of insulin and alkaline digestive juices
* Interferes with the absorption of protein, calcium and other minerals
* Retards the growth of valuable intestinal bacteria
* A major contribution factor to diabetes and it injures the pancreas in such a way that it malfunctions with the proper digestive juices and can't supply the insulin correctly--no energy--constant fatigue--it is not a pick-me-up, but a downer!
* Causes mental illness
* Causes loss of memory


Enriched Flours

A very incomplete, depleted deficient food. Nature never grew a white grain. As you know, our grains have been bled white! Use only whole grain flour--either homemade or from your local health flood store. Enriched flours are the most constipating of all the foods. They form acids in the body, which cannot be neutralized by the secretions of the body. Definitely throw this poison or products containing enriched flours in the trash. Enriched flour causes as many ailments as salt and sugar including constipation.

Facts: Enriched Flours

* The coal tar in the natural flour is bleached with chloride oxide which is a carcenagen.
* Promotes diabetes
* Used to make craft paste
* Synthetic vitamins are added (enriched) because the bleaching strips the natural vitamins from the grain.


Hydrogenated Oils

You'll find these oils in margarines, butters, shortenings, peanut butter, canned goods packed in oil, fried foods at restaurants, lards, etc. I never recommend using these oils because of the length of time for digestion. They coat the stomach walls and intestines to block off all possible ways to get the nutrients out of the food plus your digestive juices can't do their job of breaking the food down. But if you're persistent in using oils--make them cold pressed natural oils (found at most health food stores) and only use safflower oil, sesame oil, olive oil, soy oil, corn oil, avocado oil, walnut oil, peanut oil, sunflower seed oil, almond or apricot oil. Read labels on every food you buy. If hydrogenated oil is in the product the law requires that it be written on the label. Think about this one now. There's no way your body can use hydrogenated oils as it takes a temperature of 300° or more just to break them down and since your body is 98.6°, it's absurd to think of eating them. These oils definitely cause obesity, diarrhea, and malnutrition.

Facts: Hydrogenated Oils

* Produces blood clots
* Increases clogged arteries
* Increases breast cancer and tumors by 40%
* Interferes or stops the normal function of enzymes
* Promotes inflammation
* Promotes auto immune disease
* Increases bad cholesterol levels


Milk

Milk and milk products are a no-no. The only three milk products I suggest are: Soya; seed and nut milks (including coconut milk); and mother's breast milk (for nursing only). Milk is a national menace and its drinkers are always full of mucus, coughs, headaches, colds and flu. Remember that pasteurization is for the purpose of keeping bad milk in a saleable condition! Mother's breast milk is high in phosphorous (a brain food) and cow's milk is high in calcium (for bone structure). The human baby develops its brain first while the cow develops its bone structure first. So you see it's absurd to feed on cows milk especially for an infant!

Also, cow's milk is 300 times as potent in casein, which furnishes a number of amino acids for supplying the protein molecules to build bone structure that will carry the body's weight as mother's milk--a human develops twice its weight in seven months while a cow develops twice its weight in seven weeks, thus mother's milk for babies and cow's milk for cows, agreed?

Facts: Milk

* Causes arteriosclerosis
* Increases blood cholesterol
* Produces pyorrhea
* Causes obesity
* Coats the stomach--bad digestion
* Causes abnormal calcium deposits
* Causes all kinds of allergies and is not fit for human infants. Milk after weaning is abnormal.


Flesh

Flesh is the dead carcasses of animals, birds and fish. If you eat living foods like fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and grains, they are alive with an abundant supply of nutrients and energy. Dead foods are dead.

Facts: Flesh

* Flesh eating animals have a short bowel to enable them to expel rapidly the putrefactive flesh, while man has a long and complicated alimentary tract to enable plant nutrients to be slowly and properly taken up.
* Flesh eaters have a different type of intestinal bacteria from the non-flesh eaters. Man falls in the second category.
* Man's saliva contains ptyalin (to commence starch digestion); flesh-eating animals have no ptyalin.
* Flesh eaters have large livers but man has only a comparatively small one.
* Those who eat flesh are far more likely to contract cancer than those following a vegetarian diet are.
* The risk of contracting breast cancer is 3.8 times greater for women who eat meat daily.
* The risk of fatal prostate cancer is 3.6 times greater for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily as compared with sparingly or not at all.
* Meat eaters ingest excessive amounts of cholesterol, making them dangerously susceptible to heart attacks.
* The animals that are being raised for meat in the United States are diseased. The livestock industry attempts to control this disease by feeding the animals antibiotics.
* Of all the antibiotics used in the U.S., 55% are fed to livestock.
* Unknown to most meat-eaters, U.S. produced meat contains dangerously high quantities of deadly pesticides.


Stinking Thinking

You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought. Negative thinking is always expensive - dragging us down mentally, emotionally and physically - hence we refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury. If, however, you have the symptoms of a life-threatening illness - be it AIDS, heart trouble, cancer, high blood pressure or any of the others - negative thinking is a luxury you can no longer afford.

Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well being, ease, energy, love). Negative thoughts (judgment, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).

Facts: Stinking Thinking

* Negative thinking helps provide the opportunity. The infection takes it from there. Once it takes root, how quickly the virus progresses and grows depends a lot on how much manure we give it from that great fertilizer generator, negative thinking.
* Negative thinking suppresses the immune system, raises blood pressure and creates a general level of stress and fatigue in the body. In short, infections, cardiovascular irregularities, the degeneration of muscles and the random growth of unwanted cells get more opportunity.
* From a thoughts-are-creative point of view, our worry about a particular disease tends to create that disease. The thought, "Oh my God, it's cancer!" every time you cough might be misinterpreted as an invitation or even a directive.
* Tens of thousands of cancer patients, whose cancers have been in "spontaneous remission" for years, know why. They changed their thinking, and the thinking changed the course of the cancer.


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: Shroomism]
    #7534683 - 10/19/07 09:51 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

good post


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: Shroomism]
    #7537134 - 10/19/07 08:37 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

yup, everything I like is bad for me.

looks like I'm in for a short, fun life. 

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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: wps]
    #7537282 - 10/19/07 09:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Right. I'm going to have a blue steak on four slices of margarine white toaste, with honey. And beer. And then I'm going to snort salt, just so I can counteract the massive bias and smugger-than-thou attitude of whoever wrote that.

Yes, too much salt will fuck you up and give you a headache, but there's more neutral (and thus more effective) ways to convince people to eat healthily.


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7537326 - 10/19/07 09:18 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

It would have been much more preferable if it was written with a little more sound reason. A lot of it is true, but the dude has a lot of erroneous thinking as well. Thinking you have cancer creates cancer?
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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7537344 - 10/19/07 09:22 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Humans aren't supposed to eat meat? Then what are all these sharp teeth in my mouth for? intimidation of my salad?

seriously, NOTHING on this list should be directly harmful in moderation, and EVERYTHING is harmful in excess (even oxygen). I'm going to keep eating meat, drinking milk, and tastily salting my food, and I'm going to live a long happy life, and die happy as well.

Also, did you know that serious health problems can occur from a LACK of sodium in the diet?


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: fireworks_god]
    #7537457 - 10/19/07 09:58 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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Thinking you have cancer creates cancer?
:rofl2:




Actually it's pretty well established even among the medical community that a patient's thoughts and disposition effects their health a great deal, it is especially true for those in recovery but I highly suspect it works both ways.

ApJunkie: Sodium doesn't have to come from salt. And you get more than enough from it in a well-balanced diet. Most people eating western diets get way too much sodium.


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: Shroomism]
    #7538357 - 10/20/07 06:26 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Fuck it, it tastes so good! Either I can live my life eating banana and broccoli smoothies and practicing yoga, or I can hotknife hash, eat pizza, and stick two fingers up to the fucking all pervasive nanny state.

I know what a healthy diet and exercise regime is, reading this sort of stuff just makes me resentful.


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: Shroomism]
    #7538363 - 10/20/07 06:33 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

sorry, but there is no way I'll believe that raw sea salt is bad for us; bleached/iodized/refined salts, maybe, but salt contains such a vast array of micro minerals, etc. as well as preserves food. also, often, one wants the water retaining properties of salt so they do not dehydrate or have to constantly be drinking water


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: demiu5]
    #7538599 - 10/20/07 09:04 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

oh yeah, our body needs salt to function properly, I think that article means sodium chloride


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: Shroomism]
    #7539946 - 10/20/07 04:39 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Shroomism said:
Actually it's pretty well established even among the medical community that a patient's thoughts and disposition effects their health a great deal, it is especially true for those in recovery but I highly suspect it works both ways. 




No doubt, not to mention that a positive state of being is a great experience of life, but thinking you have AIDS doesn't mean that you actually gets AIDS. :hehehe:


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: fireworks_god]
    #7541565 - 10/21/07 03:51 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I dunno Fireworks this narcissist seems to disagree with you about AIDs.


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: Shroomism]
    #7544886 - 10/21/07 10:08 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

If you're that afraid of the effects of salt, take another lethal poison called potassium to counteract it.


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: Andy21]
    #7544935 - 10/21/07 10:23 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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I dunno Fireworks this narcissist seems to disagree with you about AIDs.




that guy has been labeled as an absolute nut case on youtube...I wouldn't believe too much of what that guy has to say.


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: demiu5]
    #7544958 - 10/21/07 10:29 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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sorry, but there is no way I'll believe that raw sea salt is bad for us; bleached/iodized/refined salts, maybe, but salt contains such a vast array of micro minerals, etc. as well as preserves food. also, often, one wants the water retaining properties of salt so they do not dehydrate or have to constantly be drinking water




Yeah, I'd agree with that. Pretty sure it was talking about processed/refined salts, etc. Raw sea salt is in the vast minority of salt consumed in the US I would assume though. The processed salts are so prevalent and just about everywhere and is basically just sodium chloride which is what I think it was referring to.


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: Shroomism]
    #7546007 - 10/22/07 08:17 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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Flesh is the dead carcasses of animals, birds and fish. If you eat living foods like fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and grains, they are alive with an abundant supply of nutrients and energy. Dead foods are dead.




That's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You're basically telling me that my steak, has no nutritional value, no vitamins, no minerals.

Shut the fuck up, please. Your IQ must be dropping because of the lack of certain vitamins, and minerals due to your poor diet. You know that can cause heart and neurological problems too right?


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: Rustifer]
    #7546054 - 10/22/07 08:49 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

The article was incredibly unscientific and contained no real reasoning skills. :shrug:

Also, television didn't make the list. :what:


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    #7548563 - 10/22/07 07:39 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

How Television Affects Your Brain


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    #7549638 - 10/22/07 11:51 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I'd like to see you debate Owsley Stanley.


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Re: The Seven Sins of Civilization [Re: Shroomism]
    #7549962 - 10/23/07 05:22 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

> If one out of every two deaths in this country alone are attributed to heart diseases, then it stands to reason salt is the #1 health destroyer - agreed?

I almost stopped reading here. Agreed? Hardly. Show some peer reviewed research that shows salt is the primary cause of heart disease and you have a point. I've looked, and salt is hardly mentioned.

> To show you how toxic salt is, chemically broken down (sodium chloride) it's a lethal poison--stay away from it.

I did stop reading here. Using the same argument, cyanide isn't dangerous because chemically broken down, both nitrogen and carbon are safe.


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