by Harvard Illiterate 411 55 Replies latest jw friends
Hello Harvard!
I like the old hippie ways, for the most part.
We use prescrip meds when we have to, and believe the nutritional supplements are helping us with energy levels and other problems of aging. Sticking to the middle of the road with all of it.
I do buy organic over regular groceries whenever I can. Eggs, milk, beef in particular. No longer do we have to trek into Atlanta for those kinds of foods - the local markets are carrying everything.
Marina
BBoid Organic food just TASTES way better!!!Nature knows best - always! Natural plants have fought for their place in the world for countless generations Diversity is hugely important, why do you think they are storing natural seeds in those vast silos in Norway? Also the bees are dying out in part due to insectide use on commervcial scale http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/09/honeybees-dying-insecticide-harvard-study and bees are responsible for pollinating ONE THIRD of the plant foods we eat! Gm crops also have modified pollen - another reason the bees are not surviving, the modified pollen is damaging to them.
To the OP Good for you guys! I am a veggie, try to give my kids organic when I can ( we live in a city and had an allotment for a few years) and despite being a nurse I strongly agree you should avoid tablets and conventional medications includnhg antibiotics if you possibly can. Use natural remedies UNLESS you have a serious condition - depression, cancer , meningitis ec.and of course vaccinations are important but you own immujne system needs to be strong - it can only become so by fighting infections itself and being fed a wide range of healthy foods , lots of fresh air and excercise is important too! My kids complain because I am trying to give them the healthy start I never had! If organic food is a scam well its the best scam there is - let's face it my kids are never going to look back in their healthy old age and say " that organic food its damaged me for life!!"
Do you know the history of how lead got into gasoline?
Lead was used as a valve lubricant, (engines made for the US market before 1971 required its lubrication as they used a softer metal for valves and seats; Outside of the US market for probably another 10 years depending on country). It was also an easy way to improve a gasoline's octane, (resistance to combustion, in common use), rating. The Clean Air Act of 1970 necessitated the use of catalytic converters by 1975 in the USA to reduce carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions, (catalytic converters, again were not used broadly internationally until several years later). These require unleaded fuel, as lead produces high levels of hydrocarbons when burned that will overheat a catalytic converter, so lead was phased out after that. Lead was actually not initially removed to address the health issues caused by it directly, as very little was known about the dangers of lead in 1970. Most laws requiring its removal from household items, (e.g. paint), came around by the late 1970s.
d4g
Xanthippe Only thing I take medicinally is cider vinegar in water twice a day because all the women in my family get arthritis. So far only the odd twinge
I have rheumatoid arthritis - please tell me is cider vinegar a preventative as mine is gettingh worse all the time - it hit me really young!
My wife is really healthy teach's water acrobatics three times a week. Eats a lot of veggies and grain. Busy all day.
Between us we have thirteen and a half decades of living. We eat pretty healthy but not so much organic........ we do shop the outer row in Kroger where actual real food is sold. Greens, meat, white meat, fish etc. We have a farmers market with fresh produce but the prices can be troubling.
I find that my body needs protein more then ever even though I no longer work all day. I'm not doing much of anything now and I don't start doing that until noon.
I do exercise my brain, play competitive chess, a lot of volunteer work, write on this forum daily. Read 3 or 4 books a month. Do a lot of research on line because of this darn forum. Actually I now have a Phd in shit I didn't need to know.
My mother lived to 90 and that didn't work out too well for her. Armageddon hadn't come and it depressed her. Of course looking at the brighter side 7 billion people didn't have to die to make my Mom's happy. JW's..... can't live with them........... really can't live with them.
I do the Freddy Franz workout....... I walk up ten flights of stairs every day talking to my shoes (inside Bethel joke as Freddy did keep in shape that way but was bat shit nuts in the end).
The new walking dead.......... great healthy bodies but nothing left upstairs.
Diogenesister my mother recommended cider vinegar and all I can say is it works as a preventative and if I feel a slight ache in my hips or knees after a long walk it takes away the pain. My mother started to get arthritic pain in her spine in her forties. Her doctor said she would soon be in a wheelchair.
She started reading books about it and changed her diet to a more healthy one with lots of whole foods. She never did use a wheelchair and was riding a bike in her sixties. Her sister on the other hand had her first hip replacement at 47.
Make sure you take it in water to protect your teeth.
