Things we should think about but rarely do.

[lostinidlewonder]

Now and then I hear something and think, "Wow! I never gave this much thought, I really should be thinking about this more." I like this kind of experience and would love to hear other peoples experience in this!

One thing that has interested me is natural and artifical flavors in foods. Did you know that both are man made? The smell and taste of food often is laced with flavouring which exact make up is unknown to the public (because of the flavouring industry guarding their chemical secrets). So we don't really know what we put into our bodies with these additives. No long term research would have been done on the effects of these chemical to our body.

Imagine you blindfold yourself. Now you are led to 10 different fast food outlets and asked to smell what food is being cooked. Now if you where asked which one out of the list was Mcdonalds, I'm sure you could pick it out. Are smells addictive? What if the smell only comes from a particular company? Isn't this addiction somewhat as dangerous as the addiction cigarettes or alcohol have on us? Shouldn't there be warnings against the addictive nature of chemically enhanced foods?

I think it should be a responsibility of the governments to enforce that all restaraunts or businesses dealing in preparing food for the public force guidelines as to the healthy preparation of the food. Why is food addiction different from addiction to the drink? There sure are a lot of things you can drink as much as you like of and feel fine, the same goes for foods. But in both categories we have literally dangeous categories in them. It doesn't matter how much alcohol you drink, as soon as you drink it you are damaging your body (not that it cannot repair itself). As soon as you are eating unhealthy fast foods laced with flavoring and fats you are doing damage to your body, but that realisation might take a lifetime.

The thing is, too much alcohol can show its effects very fast, so laws attached to alcohol where implimented fast. Too much smoking took many years to gain acceptance that it kills. Most of us are too young to have personally expereinced that misinfomation phase, but there was a lot of resitance promoting that smoking was not unhealthy. So now what about the industry that produces unhealthy foods? Should this also have laws attached to it?

https://www.mcspotlight.org/case/pretrial/factsheet.html

Oh did you know that homogenized milk is bad for you too!

[ramithediv]

Oh did you know that homogenized milk is bad for you too!

Everything seems to be bad for you.
Water will be bad for you soon.

Just forget it and enjoy your life.

Or do a Wacko Jacko and live in an oxygen tent for the rest of your life.

[lau]

This stuff obviously is not that bad for you. We are living longer lives than ever these days. You probably only get any side effects if you eat there very often.

[pianistimo]

more and more food is 'pre-packaged' too - and that allows for bacteria and things to grow in the moisture.  the best thing you can do is do as much food preparation as possible yourself.  even bakery items can taste 'wierd.'  you know - like someone didn't wash their hands whilst cooking or put too much of one thing or another in a huge huge mixing batch.  when you cook at home -you are working with less quantities and can blend it evenly.

also, there are many things one can do for the environment.  one is putting all organic waste back into the ground.  this is one of the best things for the soil and keeps it from becoming depleted.  think about it...before we had garbage trucks hauling everything away - we dug and buried garbage and it decomposed. 

paper shredders work, too - as paper is typically disolveable in the ground.  also, natural predators such as birds need to be fed and maintained.  keep those birdfeeders full.  birds are your friends.  do you realize how much bad food birds accidentally pick up from unnatural chemicals in laws and sprays on trees and plants?  birds are important.  bees are too.  we have to make safe havens for the animals and insects that keep our environment seeded and pollinated.

and - keep planting trees.  it'll do a lot of good for future generations if not right now.  trees provide shade - which is very needed and necessary with global warming anyways.  and, they eat up CO2 - which is what we are attempting to do.  bicycle more.  eat less.  live with less.  these are all good things for the environment.

[thalbergmad]

one is putting all organic waste back into the ground.  this is one of the best things for the soil and keeps it from becoming depleted. 

Yes, i agree.

Every night, i go and crap on the roses.

Thal

[lostinidlewonder]

Even though we might live longer we also have more new diseases than before (or perhaps in the past we where not able to diagnose them). But things like Homogenized milk being bad for you is quite a fact which is scary. The hormones that they feed cows so that they produce more milk has been proven to carry over into the milk and into the human system. These hormones have been responsible for things like cancer and damage to our blood vessels. It scares me that this has been proven to happen but nothing is done about it, I hardly could simply forget about it and keep living in ignorance.

Every night, i go and crap on the roses.

Sounds prickly!

[lau]

Even though we might live longer we also have more new diseases than before

Who cares if there is more diseases if we are living longer.

[leahcim]

We are living longer lives than ever these days.

Halle-***-lujah. Have a beer. [By that, given the thread, I don't mean you should be harmed in some small, possibly reversible way  ]

The thing is, it's still not long enough for some...

[rc]

Anything that feels good can be addictive.  People can live their lives how they like, and accept any consequences.  When somebody sues a fast food joint because they're obese, I want to see them smacked in the face by the judge - "That's what you get for eating crap".

It's not much of a secret that fast food isn't the best thing to be eating on a regular basis.  I've known it since I was a kid, I don't know a single person who thinks greasy burger king is health food...

[pianochick93]

Water will be bad for you soon.

Oh but it is...

https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/dhmo.htm