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 Dr-Duke rated 35 months ago - From the page: "As human beings, we're the only species stupid enough to actually poison ourselves. As part of modern living, we create a wide variety of chemical toxins that go into the ecosystem through rivers and streams, the air, the soil and so on. Not only that, we actually synthesi...
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- wappytea rated 12 months ago
- From the page: "fluoride
That's not the end of the toxicity in the world of dentistry, we also have dentists pushing for, get this, the dripping of a highly toxic chemical waste product into the water supply... a substance that's scraped off the smokestacks of industrial polluters. They want every person in the community to actually drink this substance."
 Don-Keehotay rated 15 months ago- Fearmongering bullshit. I'm surprised it didn't say that water is extremely dangerous because it's partly hydrogen and "look what happened to the Hindenburg!"
- ElDave rated 12 months ago
- From the page: "As human beings, we're the only species stupid enough to actually poison ourselves."
- Kylie-Kat rated 20 months ago
- This article made me rethink my food choices.
- Shinzui rated 26 months ago
- From site:
"As human beings, we're the only species stupid enough to actually poison ourselves. As part of modern living, we create a wide variety of chemical toxins that go into the ecosystem through rivers and streams, the air, the soil and so on. Not only that, we actually synthesize toxic chemicals and then inject them directly into the food supply -- knowing full well that they are poisonous and are major contributors to the epidemic rates of chronic disease we are experiencing today."
- Montag451 rated 15 months ago
- I have mixed feelings about some of these, but there is little doubt the average American is taking in some pretty foul substances. Of course whenever anybody mentions the fluoride thing I always think of Dr. Stangelove. If yer gonna compromise yer precious bodily fluids ya might as well be some kinda deviated prevert!
- johnnyis rated 16 months ago
- We're all doomed, I promise.
Excellent article/rant (ranticle?) about the various toxic chemicals in our food, medicine, and other consumer products. The angry ranting tone is pretty well justified for an author who obviously 100% believes what he's saying is true. Hell, if these things are even partially true we should all be fairly enraged.
I'm a die hard skeptic myself. This means I don't just up and believe doctors, government officials, FDA reps who say shit is good, or not bad for me. But, this means I also don't just up and 100% believe all the info presented from the other side without significant evidence to back up either argument. But, I don't really have the time to investigate each and every one of these things.
I don't want to be a brainless consumer, but I don't really feel like being an extremist hippy food nazi either. I already dislike artificial sweetners, so that's an easy one to buy into them being toxic chemicals. But all in all this is classified as "highly interesting" and quite possibly has a lot of truth to it.
The scary thing isn't the small doses of poisons we're probably piling up over the years. The scary thing is that we'll eventually have to realize that in general people are not out for the good of humanity. That we trust doctors, the fda, government agencies, food companies, etc to not poison us. To actually try and do what's good for us, to provide us food with more food than toxins in it, to give us medicine that promotes health and doesn't deteriorate it. There's the harsh lesson. We trust them because we don't have the time and energy to constantly look over our shoulder. And guess what, they lie to us. For profit.
- thehoodedone rated 20 months ago
- From the site:
Want to live a better life? Eat well with the four basic food groups, stay hydrated, get plenty of sleep, learn as much as you can, be happy. Look around at what has worked for others.
This article does not really help. It could though if the author would take a serious critical look at how low level toxicology studies are applied by federal agencies. He should also consider there is no free lunch. Whichever choice is made, whether to use or not use something, there are consequences.
Mercury amalgams are basically metal alloys, that in addition to laboratory testing, have a more significant track record of safety in actual use than alternatives. Alternatives were not mentioned. When making a decision there must be an alternative considered, acrylic composites being one, lost teeth and gum disease being the other. In any case, whole generations have grown up, grown old and died with amalgam fillings in their mouths and without showing signs of mercury or silver poisoning.
Sodium nitrites in meats are put in as a preservative, especially against botulism. I suspect that it acts as a reducing (antioxidant) agent. The problem with the nitrite/nitrosamine/cancer link is that it has been known since at least the 70's that the principle source of dietary nitrites is from the conversion of nitrates in green leafy vegetables to nitrites in the digestive tract.
The argument against aspartame is ridiculous. It is a compound of two naturally occuring amino acids, phenylalanine and aspartic acid joined by a amide linkage just like the proteins you consume everyday. The body breaks it back down into its component amino acids just like all the other proteins you consume. Can you process it to release formaldehyde and formic acid? While cooking might do that, it also could do that with protein fragments from natural sources that are cooked.
The argument used against chlorine atoms attached to sugars is silly as a previous commenter noted. The body tissues are actually bathed in sodium chloride solution and you would die without it. A better argument could be made that this is an organic chloride rather than an inorganic one. The body also produces hydrochloric acid and has plenty of oxidizing species and catalyzing enzymes present. The counterargument would be show that the body does not have the means to destroy or handle low levels of organic chlorides.
Hydrogenated oils ARE found in nature; they are called saturated fats. Counterargument: Show that trans fats are not produced from ordinary cooking with unsaturated fats. Its not the hydrogenation that produces the trans fats, its the heat.
Want to do a real public service? Take a serious look at low level toxicology studies churned out by government agencies and colleges and tell me how in use they differ from astrology. Both form opinions about cause and effect from correlational studies, typically without concern for the mechanism. Then the low level tox study extrapolates for species, safety, uncertainty, etc. to claim that effects at concentrations near toxic levels in the parts per thousand translate to risk at the parts per billion level. If you can get the government to take steps to end astrological toxicology, that would be a real contribution.
As an application of the above, currently EPA, FDA, etc. are trying to regulate heavy metal exposure, without checking whether these heavy metals function as micronutrients or are present naturally in foods and with what variation. Some metals that have been claimed to cause cancer, such as chromium and selenium are actually needed by the body.
Again look around you and remember history to determine for yourself what makes sense. Don't just accept arguments from authorities that don't deal with known observations to the contrary. That kind of argument does not wash in science. Ask does it make sense with all of the other known facts.
- wisdom-of-trees rated 30 months ago
- ...interesting
- Doom-Loki-Locke rated 32 months ago
- "As human beings, we're the only species stupid enough to actually poison ourselves. As part of modern living, we create a wide variety of chemical toxins that go into the ecosystem through rivers and streams, the air, the soil and so on. Not only that, we actually synthesize toxic chemicals and then inject them directly into the food supply -- knowing full well that they are poisonous and are major contributors to the epidemic rates of chronic disease we are experiencing today."
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