Tobacco: The Other Side of the Story

We all know for a fact that cigarettes cause cancer. It’s not even a debate. And everyone knows that nicotine is bad for you and tobacco causes lung cancer, right? Well, we’ve been smoking tobacco for thousands of years.  Yet only recently have we added all these additives and chemicals, which begs the question… Does tobacco cause cancer? Or is it the chemicals that cause cancer, and not the tobacco itself? This is the other side of the story Does Tobacco Cause Lung Cancer? Dr. Victor Buhler, Pathologist at St. Joseph Hospital in Kansas City: “I have examined thousands of lungs both grossly and microscopically. I cannot tell you from examining a lung whether or not its former host had smoked.” (link) Nearly 80% of people diagnosed with lung cancer now, in 2012, are non-smokers

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12 Rules for Food

Here are a few quick dietary recommendations, twelve rules to eat by. If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it, unless it sounds really good. If you can’t put it IN your body, don’t put it ON your body! (lotions, sunscreen,deodorant, etc) If your food comes from an animal, it’s probably okay. If it’s made in a plant, try to avoid it. If it IS a plant it’s probably okay but be very careful about eating the wrong raw ones. We’ve been misled. Take what the so-called experts say and reverse it. If your great grandmother didn’t eat it, don’t even think about it. Whenever you see the label “Fat Free” or “Low Fat” think Chemical Shit-storm. Count chemicals, not calories. When diet is wrong medicine is of no use. When diet is correct medicine is of no need. He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the…

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The Naive Vegetarian

There is . . . but one categorical imperative: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.  –Immanuel Kant. (The Categorical Imperative.) via: Second-Opinions.co.uk Forms of vegetarianism Animal farming is an efficient use of land The British situation A fishy problem The killing of animals for food is not morally wrong We are not a vegetarian species Fossil evidence Fats and brain size Toxicity of raw vegetables ‘Homo carnivorus’ The diet revolutions The meat vitamin: B-12 Vegetarianism and militancy Vegetarianism — a form of child abuse But isn’t vegetarianism healthier? Vegetarianism and coronary disease Vegetarianism and cancer Vegetarians and tuberculosis Vegetarians and Alzheimer’s disease Vegetarians and salmonella How safe is soybean? Soy milk for children Soybean and cancer The vegetarian’s dilemma Vegetarianism and the environment Genetic modification for vegetarians Animals and the…

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