Comments on: What’s that in your mouth?

By: jordan

jordan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:54:35 +0000

There’s no need to post this. I came across an interesting article and thought I’d share since this post is about “food” . Unfortunately, it holds no surprises…but now we can include muscle weakness as yet another problem caused by consuming all the wrong things. Physiologically this makes sense in that hyperglycemia is usually paired with hypokalemia.

Here’s the link:

http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/toomuchcolacancausemuscleproblems.html

And here’s the link to the primary article:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/122384352/PDFSTART?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

By: jordan

jordan — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:02:04 +0000

As much as I understand where you’re coming from Ekstasis, I don’t understand how it would be possible to be full of shit and yet spread a message of prosperity and truth. Talk is cheap and you’ve clearly missed my point.

By: Ekstasis

Ekstasis — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:45:52 +0000

Interestingly enough, when I read the line, “I was thinking more along the lines of hypocrisy” right away, I thought of Law School, the LSAT, and Logical Fallacies. Ad Hominem…

If you’ve heard of many people that rave about being a better person, eating better and doing better things but they’re just great preachers because they’re hypocrites, then you, unfortunately, have deprived yourself of the message. If the message is one of prosperity, truth, and sustainability, regardless of who is sending the message, it would behoove you to take the message for what it’s worth.

To judge and label the individual because he or she does not FULLY comply with or embody their own “preaching” is to close yourself off to any growth, knowledge, and experience in this world.

I’d recommend you watch this video on “open-mindedness”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI

By: S3

S3 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:01:50 +0000

The problem is that the people who are preaching and not living the life they talk about… are full of shit, but they are the ones who make the people who are actually trying to live a better life, look like they are preaching. The only thing a person can do is to try to live a better life, and to share the information, so other can also live a better life.

The last part is important to me. Isn’t that what 10,000 years of evolution has led up to? An advanced being that is meant to make things better? Not worse?

The “image” is only what you choose to see. If you live a life that is authentic, then you don’t see people who are awake to the logical truths of the world as an image or as preaching, but rather, of the same mind. But if you live a life where what you hear from these “people” seems to be preaching, then you are now admitting that you are faced with the challenge of accepting the truth, and using an ad hominem argument to debase the message releases you from having to make that choice.

So yes, I agree with you. Most people are full of shit. That is why the world we live in is going to shit.

By: jordan

jordan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:05:08 +0000

Regurgitating crap from tv is a brainless capability. I was thinking more along the lines of hypocrisy. I’ve heard many people rave about being a better person, eating better and doing better but they’re just great preachers. It’s just an image they like to convey and it’s quite sad and disappointing but people really are full of shit.

By: S3

S3 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:19:45 +0000

People unfortunately are full of shit, but not in the way that the “insult” insinuates, rather, they are full of shit because they don’t read anything anymore and they have no clue what the read world is about. So when the open their mouths, they regurgitate the crap that is spoon fed to them from their TVs.

By: jordan

jordan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:19:52 +0000

You are absolutely right! We can only change ourselves but I think if people weren’t so full of shit the world would be better too, no?

By: cshells58

cshells58 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:20:05 +0000

I think you know how passionate I am about this topic, so, thank you for writing this. There are so many causes that create this issue, it is hard to pinpoint just one. However, I do believe that if an individual places their focus on fixing just one, the rest will follow. I would highly recommend to each reader, if they so desire, to read an amazing book called “Food Politics” by Marion Nestle (not pronounced like the chocolate, but instead rhyming with wrestle). In it you learn that contrary to what you might think, it is not the Dept of Health and Human Services, nor the FDA, who decides things like what is listed in the food pyramid and laws on package labeling. In fact, it is the US Dept of Agriculture. And, because large agri-biz is heavily linked to the USDA and are such large contributors to political campaigns, it has become “the rule” that they are allowed to review and change any decision by the USDA. Putting politics aside, I don’t feel comfortable with a federal body that is focused on agriculture to be the same group of people who make decisions about my health. And, while this may be the foundation or root of where the misinformation comes from, it is still up to the individual to be educated and informed about how their food is made.

I am sorry for this being more verbose than I had intended, but this really is such a deeply complex subject. We have been manipulated beyond belief about the truth behind the food industry. I hope everyone goes out this weekend for the opening of “Food, Inc.”. Please try to take the two hours to get a glimpse into this industry so you can start making better choices and understand the depth of this problem.