In modern society with food a plenty it seems every quack is trying to pitch his remedy to keep us healthy. Frankly we are all in a big experiment and the ones that fall off are the weak ones. Lets just accept this and move on. Eat what you like or enjoy and can afford. Do not mind all the banter about what would or could kill you. Its gonna happen if you eat it or not.
All this mumbo jumbo about veggies and fiber is getting so out of hand even the presidential office has got involved. I mean once we all die with this amount of fiber in us we could be recycled to make moving boxes. But alas many will prefer to be buried and wasted - biodegradale quality after all is good.
Slogans like 'Don't eat Red Meat' are all the rage. Hmm, so should I eat meat that looks green? Or moldy? Or black? I think not. I prefer that the meat I eat was red. I will cook it but definitely not go for any other colored meat.
As far as sugar consumption it has been labeled in some circles as the next toxin. Ha ha - Coke and Pepsi would literally have to shut down their operation since they would be the legal equivalent of the Drug Cartels. Our own Indra Nooyi contributing to worldwide addiction and death of millions due to unchecked sugar consumption in the form of high fructose corn syrups..hilarious headlines are a few days away.
Today the amount of geometry lessons through multi colored pyramids drawn on food cartons and breakdown of vital ingredients on a box of cereal to a can of soup can make the person reach for the oxygen mask. It is mind numbing. I have often wondered how an average educated fellow American with below par math skills decides whether that 45% of daily value of Sodium listed on his pork chop is going to do him good or not? What the heck is a 45% of daily value anyway? Whose daily value? What is sodium? Is it similar to the soda I just drank an hour ago that claimed to have 55% of daily sugars?
Poor are eating healthy I guess with getting their sugars from robbing the sugarcane fields and eating the raw stick. But then they will succumb due to the unpasteurized sugarcane ingestion along with deadly bacteria from the field. So its the same end game. You can either eat and drink legally approved stuff and die with a warning or die without one by consuming non labeled food. Pick your posion.
Our first foray into Central America. That elongated isthmus that forms the geographic boundary between two vast continents of North and South America. Specifically landing for NYE 2026 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Capital city for this region that does not have its own army, instead relying on its big bro the Estados Unidos to the north is a metropolis of approx. 500K people. Largely wilderness and with both a Pacific and Carribean/Atlantic coast the country is rich in bio diversity. In Spanish it means the rich coast so named by Columbus landing in early 16th century and being mesmerized by the local tribes sporting gold jewelry. Our stay included visiting the foothills of a large strato volcano called Arenal and enjoying the naturally heated thermal baths for a while. Lunching amidst lush forest and watching indigenous species of avian noise makers fly overhead. Toucans, some sort of pea hens, multiple song bird species completed the spectacle. Iguanas and a lonel...
All my relatives who lived or are living into their eighties pretty much ate what they wanted- and ate a lot in some cases. Most did not have serious ailments, except arthritis of knees. I am not at all sure if I believe any of the no-sugar no-salt (or numerous other)therapies.
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