Democraps: "We're full of it."
Posted on 09/07/2014 7:56:56 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Edited on 09/07/2014 8:44:27 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Since the rise of both modern medicine and society, a large subset of the Western World's population has required a scapegoat to explain their everyday ills. Today, it's gluten. A decade ago, it was monosodium glutamate (MSG). One hundred years ago, it was poop.
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Democraps: "We're full of it."
I just send my crap out the back door. Works every day (except when I’m dieting).
I still say nothing is better than a good healthy BM in the morning to get the day started right.
There was a trend — I was going to say, a “movement” — in California (where else?) a decade or so ago to visit clinics where you would be administered mega-enemas under the delusion that a high colonic was a lifesaver. I don’t know how many of them have survived, but it’s proof that idiotic fads are always cropping up among stupid, gullible, trend-addicted people.
I had an acquaintance who drank a bottle of olive oil one day in a month. She refused to take any antibiotics. She was convinced that she and liver problems (she probably did) and that this monthly cleansing was necessary to preserve her liver. She was always sick and looked awful.
Many days, I could report for a colonoscopy without needing the prepwork.
(...am I sharing too much?)
“It made no difference that neither the specific poisons nor the mechanisms by which they might be causing harm were known or named. In the realm of quackery, vague is better.”
Sounds awful to the global warming nonsense...settled science, vast agreement and totally bursting colons of quackery.
If you fast, you don’t poop or pass the gas.
"Autointoxication was the Global Warming of the early 1900s," Matthew Fuller commented.
Yeah! Knock that $hit off!
There has always been a lot of interest in good ole #2.
http://cleansing.beinsa.info/books/cleansing.pdf
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111001/
Any given oil has roughly 125 calories per tablespoon. There's two tablespoons per ounce...that means an 8-oz bottle comes out to about 2000 calories.
Did you mean "crapping" up?
FMCDH(BITS)
Olive oil
Highly recommend Mary Roach’s “Gulp” mentioned in the article.
I disagree about the author’s implication that gluten intolerance is just a fad. There really is a biochemical issue with consuming grains. But as some have pointed out, the problem may be that bread today is mass produced with rapid techniques that leave the gluten in the final product, whereas bread used to be slowly fermented, rising over 24 hours to several days.
My uncle died from peritonitis after a high colonic irrigation went wrong. We had to perform Last Rites in the ICU two days after the initial procedure.
There’s a pony under the pile of gluten horse stuff — a real disease caused by gluten sensitivity.
About 1% of people have celiac disease, an autoimmune disease, triggered by gluten, that destroys the lining of the small intestine, resulting in all kinds of serious intestinal problems, including a huge increase in the incidence of potentially fatal lymphoma. Even a tiny amount of gluten, measured in single digits of milligrams, can cause the body’s immune system to attack and destroy the villi in the small intestine.
My wife has celiac. Our household is totally — and I mean totally — gluten-free. The ingredient label of every food item being considered for purchase is scoured for wheat ingredients (and other sources of gluten) and for potential cross contamination. If it’s even made in a “facility that also processes wheat”, it doesn’t enter our house.
After an ER visit that eventually led to the diagnosis of celiac, she has lost 35 pounds and is healthier than she’s been in years.
Food sensitivities are real — and it’s not just peanuts. Many people have varying degrees of food sensitivities, and would be much healthier if they went to the trouble of figuring out which ones, and then went to the additional trouble of avoiding them. There is no single food to avoid. Avoiding gluten is no panacea. But if you’re having chronic problems — physical or mental — that no doctor seems to be able to figure out, you ought to consider food and/or chemical sensitivities as a possible cause.
It was the yeast they could do.
It took so long for the bread to rise, the bakers were always loafing.
(A little rye humor never hurt.)
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