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You cure yourself of cancer 24 times a week..without knowing it: BILL BRYSON on how 8,000...
dm ^ | 9/21/2019 | bill bryson

Posted on 09/21/2019 3:50:33 PM PDT by RummyChick

The human body is often likened to a high-performance machine.

But it is so much more than that. It works 24 hours a day for decades without (for the most part) needing regular servicing or the installation of spare parts.

It runs on water and a few organic compounds, is soft and rather lovely, reproduces itself with enthusiasm, makes jokes, feels affection and appreciates a red sunset.

How many machines do you know that can do any of that? There is no question about it. You are truly a wonder.

And how do we celebrate the glory of our existence? Well, for most of us by exercising minimally and eating maximally.

Think of all the junk you throw down your throat and how much of your life is spent in a near vegetative state in front of a glowing screen.

Yet in some kind and miraculous way our bodies look after us, extract nutrients from the miscellaneous foodstuffs we push into our faces and somehow hold us together.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: RummyChick

And such an incredible wonder supposedly came from random mutations and natural selection?

Not a chance!


21 posted on 09/21/2019 9:23:53 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: RummyChick

Thanks.

That was very interesting.


22 posted on 09/21/2019 9:37:34 PM PDT by Califreak (If Obama had been treated like Trump the US would have been burnt down before Inauguration Day)
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Isn’t that the guy who wrote “A Walk In The Woods”?


23 posted on 09/22/2019 8:58:37 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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bkmk


24 posted on 09/22/2019 11:43:00 AM PDT by lizma2
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If you have cancer don't eat products that contain whey... cheese etc. Also no asparagus...
25 posted on 09/22/2019 11:57:44 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Daniel Okrent HELP - lowlife editors at the New York Times need YOU... they've lost their way.)
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