Posted on 05/02/2008 2:40:30 PM PDT by blam
I don’t eat that stuff. Sugar, I need to avoid but still can’t. I used to say that about sub sandwiches when my mother would tell me they weren’t healthy. I would say they have all the food groups.
Thanks for the ping.
Thomas Kemper Soda ditches high fructose corn syrup
QSR Magazine Investigates the Future of High Fructose Corn Syrup
The high fructose corn syrup is probably the worst part of the whole "value meal". I would like to see another "Supersize Me" experiment where he switched to diet soda. I bet the damage would be minimal.
At least double-check. It’s your liver.
I agree. I used to be a Pepsi junkie. I quit cold turkey about two years ago. My health and vitality has improved in numerous ways.
Sorry. I was being sarcastic referring only to your advice not to take advice off of internet forums. My liver is in great shape. Did a liver cleanse recently with a taro and ginger plaster. Didn’t pull the slightest bit of toxins out. I use milk thistle now and then. Amazing stuff, it not only releases toxins it stimulates regrowth.
“It was probably enough to make many Americans lose their appetite: A recent study from Europe showed that eating too much fast food – a diet high in fat and sugar – could cause serious damage to your liver.”
My doctor, when he told me my liver count was slightly elevated, said it was caused by too many fatty/sugary foods. He told me my liver, if I didn’t change my eating habits, would turn into foie gras. That stuck with me. I don’t want a foie gras liver. I’m now avoiding fatty/junk foods big time.
A guy in my condo building turned me onto Liverite, which comes in both pill or capsule form, which can be bought at most drugstores, or Walmart (where I get mine). I was having some liver pain and my liver count turned out to be slightly elevated (too much bad food). When I went to buy the Liverite, the lady who showed me where it was said that after New Year’s Eve, lots of men would come in and buy a bottle of Liverite, LOL!. That sold me on the product. Went home, started taking it (initially 2 pills 3 times a day; now I just do 2 pills a day), and I almost instantaneously felt better. Check it out. I had amazing results from it. No prescription needed. All natural ingredients.
Details, please?
Cheers!
Details, please? It sounds interesting.
Cheers!
There are a whole bunch of different, but vaguely related substances that perform similar functions in different animals. Here is one of the more interesting prospects:
S’alright. I’m more libertarian in my health views than my politics. Buyer beware, thin the herd ... kind of like that.
One note about milk thistle; MT releases toxins from the liver by making the hepatocyte cell membranes of the liver more soluble allowing the release of stored toxins. They are then carried by the bile into the gastric tract. Without something to bind them the bloodstream will just pick them back up and take them back to the liver. Psyllium husk (Metamucil and it's variants) will absorb those toxins in the gut and carry them out.
A good regimen is 30 days of two 00 caps of milk thistle powdered and standardized extract and a normal one day dose of psyllium husk. Taking it every day, year in and year out, is probably not necessary. If you have specific chronic problems (such as you refuse to stop smoking and/or eating saturated fats, that's ME! ... or other factors) 2-3 30 day regimens per year would make sense. For the young (curse them all the brats!) healthy non-self-abusive person who doesn't work around heavy metals or the like it's almost ridiculous to worry about cleansing the liver.
The taro root and ginger plaster is a heavy duty liver detox method. It is a pulling plaster in herbal terms. You will need about 4-6 ounces of taro root. I'm guessing the amount because I didn't measure it or get instructions with specific measurements. Enough to make about a cup of paste. Enough ginger root to give you about 1/8th to 1/4 cup paste. Enough muslin gauze to wrap up the plaster making a pack out of it big enough to cover the area over the liver. Most of you liver hangs just below your rib cage on the right side. An old towel or other cloth to wrap around and hold it in place.
Grate the taro and ginger root and mix. Spread about 1/4 inch thick on the gauze and wrap two or three times. Just enough so it doesn't ooze out easily and get messy. Don't put too many layers of gauze over it, like I did at first, or it won't contact the skin enough to work.
Put it on just before bed and go to sleep because it will start itching like nobody's business and it's easier to sleep through than stay up and go nuts. It's also easier to keep it in place lying down.
I was told that I might find the plaster black, blue and purple from released toxins. And awful smelling. The pattern should reflect the shape of the liver. I found all of that true except the discoloration. But that doesn't surprise me since smoking and animal fats are the worst toxins I am exposed to and I have taken milk thistle for a while. On my own I decided to take milk thistle for a few days before doing the plaster since it makes hepatocyte cells more soluble.
Obligatory disclaimer: This information for educational purposes only.
Consult a qualified health care professional before self-treating.
Thank you for posting. I have fatty liver and the advice in this article might save my life.
Are they fighting obesity or GoreBull Warming?
Not if you are a goose (pate de foie gras).
That reminds me. How does “Where In The World Is Osama...?” end? If the answer is anything other than “Morgan ran into some guys in black skimasks and they chanted ‘Allah akbar!’ as they gave him the Daniel Pearl haircut”, I’m not going.
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