Thanks. This was good information. Some of it I knew, but some, like the toothpaste, surprised me. My wife has type 2 diabetes and is a medical professional. She manages her blood sugar levels very well. She drinks “Mexican” Coke because it uses real sugar, not artificial sweeteners. The body can efficiently process real sugar, not artificial sweeteners. According to her, if her blood sugar is low, she can drink room-temperature Mexican Coke, which will quickly boost her blood sugar. Conversely, she immediately rinses with mouthwash after brushing her teeth. I will not tell her what you posted; some arguments ain’t worth it.😀
More health fact or fiction tips…
10. Injecting ground up butterfly in your leg will kill you.
True
11. Standing in ice water and adding salt will cause your toes to turn black.
True
12. Doing #11 will result in your mom pushing you around the house in a lawn chair.
True
Did Dr. Fauci ghost-write this?
Anyone seeking factual information should read Dr. Casey Mean’s book “Good Energy” and then discuss it with a biochemist or doctor with a good understanding of metabolism.
Overnutrition is a fact of the modern diet and yes, pumping your body full of sugar can lead to metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, and diabetes in addition to increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Fortunately RFKJ knows these things, and won’t be listening to this quack.
Some doctor:
“2. Eating too much sugar will give you diabetes.
Fiction. Sugar becomes glucose in your bloodstream. In response, your body makes insulin to regulate blood sugar. Type 2 diabetes is a problem with insulin regulation, not sugar intake. Excessive sugar can lead to overweight and obesity, which are risk factors for type 2 diabetes. That makes eating a well-balanced diet, without a lot of added sugar, important for your health.
It isn’t possible to determine with certainty what specific foods or nutrients are increasing your risk for Type 2 diabetes. Read more about sugar’s role in the disease.”
Bump for later
#5 is misleading. If you’re playing a couple of hours of squash a week and have an MI you’ll probably want to cut that out. You’ll also find a few of the guys you used to play with will try to avoid games with you. They don’t want to be pounding on your chest on the floor of the squash court.
Ice water for burns does the best.
Converting ice at 32F to water at 32F takes far more heat than simply raising the water or ice by themselves.
It will draw out more heat quicker.
Fiction #3 comes from British WW2 wartime propaganda. They created the myth that eating carrots helped nighttime eyesight to explain the success of their night fighters were having against German nighttime bombing raids and to hide the fact that their night fighters were actually using radar to locate the German bombers.
swallow toothpaste or mouthwash? Screw that
Fiction? Not in my world.
My husband is in his 70s. Goes regularly for eye exams. Also gets the every three month eye injections for macular degeneration.
In the last several years he's become hooked on this wonderful Bolthouse brand carrot juice and drank a couple bottles a week.
On his last eye exam he could see better on the vision charts than he has for decades.
How could an old guy's vision improve like this if not for the carrot juice?
Beware the Dunning-Kruger effect. We all think we know better than physicians if we slept at the Holiday Inn Express. And the medical profession, with its loyalties to the Big Bucks, hasn’t done itself any favors.
PS: I stayed at the Holiday Inn Express for 9 years, excluding undergraduate studies.
10. <— not correct.
You should definitely rinse a lot after a First Round of brushing your teeth, because there is a lot of matter that needs to be flushed - especially between your teeth . . . and vigorous swishing of water with some toothpaste in it, helps.
After that ‘processing,’ then you might - if you want - make a brief Second Round of brushing, to apply paste and rinse as you please: whatever you consider a light rinse - perfection not required.
Tip: Parodontax tooth brush is very effcient
https://www.parodontax.com/products/complete-protection-toothbrush/
Think it on FreeRepublic where I learned you can heal fast
and remove the pain from minor burns with fluoride, or just
toothpaste with fluoride. Worked for me in less than 1 hour
likely depends how severe.
11. Some foods are intrinsically “healthier” to eat than others.
5. After a heart attack, you should usually return to your workouts.
Fact but you wont be able to. The quack overseeing your healthcare has put you on statins that cause your muscles, including the heart muscle that they claim to be protecting, to collapse, become weak, and be too painful to use.
They will claim that the loss of mental acuity you are experiencing causing you to nearly burn down the house and the kidney damage you suddenly also have are classic examples of nocebo effect.
Drop the medication and tell your doctor to GFY.