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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I don't check the contents/ingredients list on the package

Big mistake, always.

And never just trust government's risk assessment agencies of any sorts, they mostly are in the pockets of industrial and business lobbies. Even international bodies like the WHO have been corrupted to a degree where I see them as absolutely untrustworthy now.

To some degree the various meta analysis run by the Cochrane Foundation have some value, and often surprising and officially unwanted implications. If available on a topic of interest, these are what I always include in considerations. But untouchable even these are not, of course.

And an anecdote. A few days ago I saw my dental cleaning specialist. We have gotten quite close over the past 5 years, and not only does she do a very good job, but we also like each other and thus chat a bit as well when I see her twice a year. And while I made her aware of my improved health status in my mouth and with my teeth's issues, we chatted on nutrition and iodine and corona and all that, and she told me she knew this friend of hers, for 25 years, since her sschool years, and he always was very acitve in sports and healthy, but also did not miss any party and never said no to smoking, drinking a lot and all that. And then he got a diagnosis for pancreatic cancer. We all know what that means, chances are miserable. He then went through several chemo therapies, surgery and all that stuff, and finally he was finished and done and all therapeutic efforts ended when scans showed that he had metastases all over in his body, and they told him its game over, he had to die in the forseeable future. Next he had a lucky random meeting with a pharmacists, and as it happens I know the man by his name, three of his books are on my shelve, he is an expert for micro nutrition and has founded an institute for researchign them, he is one of the leading European experts for this stuff. Talking of the world beign a village! And he met the friend of my dental cleaner, and they talked, and he made the man changing his food habits from top to bottom, he completely revamped the house, so to speak. The death candidate had nothing to lose anymore, desperate grapped for every straw somebody was offering him. Over one year later he was still alive and went to see his old doctor. The doc was surprised that he was still around. They did a new series of scans that were so stunning that the images madethe round and even found the way to several hospitals and experts there: he was free of all metastases. - Well, that is a story to tell. She told me the man does not expect to live forever, maybe he will nevertehless die earlier than would have been needed, but he already has won unexpected amounts of bonus time, is free of pain and suffering, and still has no metastases. Wowh.

You see, guys, the Western medicine is great in dealing with accute emergencies and dealing with symptoms, but it is a desaster, an almost complete fail, when it comes to healing the origins of symptoms. Pharmaceutical companies are not intersted in them, there is no money to be made this way. Doctors are not beign educated at university to focus on the roots and causes of deseases, they get trained to suppress symptoms only. Often these symptoms even are tools of the body to try healign himself, high temerature durign fever for exmaple. In the end, I understand mroe and more that it is not the chemcial gent that heals, but the body heals itself. We are well advised to give it the tools, in nutrients, that he needs for that job. But in Wetsern medicine, almost always the prescription of medicla drugs goes at the cost of more health loss due to these drugs having unwanted interactions with other drugs, or side effects by themselves. In germany, old people in care taking facilities on avergae are being drugged with 9-11 meds per day, all of them very long in lists of complications and side-effects, most of them being nutrient thieves, but the food served usually is lousy. Half of the meds are beign given to just treat the interactions and side effect symptoms of the original drugs being prescribed. And then we wonder why our old in nursing homes die like the flies when Corona finds entracy...? Its not just Vitamine-D deficiency, you better believe that!

Corn syrup. Refined sugar. A completely distorted understanding of good versus bad fats, good versus bad cholesterione and cholesterol. Highly processed, nutrient-reduced high calory food. Plenty of poisons and toxic agents, partially form the fields, partially from the the environment, partially from adding chemical agents during processing the food that do not serve the interest of the consumer, but the needs of the industry. Can somebody please explain why we no must be given natrium-ferro-cyanid in industrial salt, please? Why in the US Brom still is allowed to be used in medication? All the many artifical chemical agents beign added to conserve food in a way that costs one cent less than a less critical method? There is a German proverb, Du bist was Du isst: you are what you eat. What goes in, is what forms oyu up, and what sooner or later will go out again. The drug you take, the medication, does not just disappear when you swallow it and store it in your body. It leaves the body sooner or later, it goes into the waste disposal, into the water, and back onto the fields. It does not just magically disappear.

The US wants to enforce access to European markets with its desastrous glucose and corn syrup. Why dont they just drop chemical bombs on Europe? Highly toxic agents that accelerates the speed by which people are turned into diabetic fat balls, its far more toxic than white sugar alone - and that already is bad enough.

You people are afraid of the wrong white crystal. You should be afraid of white sugar, not of white salt. You could delete sugar completely, and you will still live on, probabyl healthier and longer. Limit salt, and you become weak, you become ill, and you die early. You are afraid of the wrong threats. 9 out of 10 of us do not need less but more salt. More iodine, not less iodine. Same for selene. Magnesium. Zinc. Vitmaine B complex. Vitamine D. Vitamine A. Most of us have a Omega 6 to Omega 3 balance of 30:1 to 60:1. It should not exceed 3:1, while our ancestors most liekly had it between 3:1 to 1:1. Most people do not even know what Q10 is, and what it does and why ATP is so relevant for us - most people know this not although their cell's mitochondrias produce the equivalent to the body'S own weight in ATP every single day! You should know these things, for the same reason why you know that you need oxygene.

All these deficits do not serve our health interest. But they wonderfully serve the interest of the industrial food industry and the pharmaceutical industry. Now do the math.