If you are, then you might as well know that you are ruining your health while actually placing your life at risk from the possibility of getting cancer!
Wow! Some sweeping statement! Cola? Dangerous?
Well, actually it is very dangerous to health. Do you have any idea what’s in that stuff?
I’m going to tell you.
Cola (we won’t name any brand names here) contains a cocktail of chemicals, preservatives, artificial colourants, acidity regulators, artificial flavours, salt… shall I go on?
Well the regular stuff contains a ton of sugar which is just a load of empty calories, which will send your triglycerides level through the roof. The diet stuff contains aspartame, which has a very strong potential to give you cancer. Manufacturers deny this, but far too many eminent experts believe it does to sweep this one under the rug. Either type will stimulate the appetite, causing you to gain weight, so the diet stuff is a blatant lie.
The active ingredient in cola is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8 and it is capable of dissolving a nail in about four days. Phosphoric acid leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in
osteoporosis. Recently it has been reported that high levels of pesticides have been found in these delicious fizzy drinks. Oh great!
The original version of the best known brand of cola was made using coca, the raw material from which the highly addictive drug cocaine is produced and whence it derived it’s name. Note that the manufacturers guard the “secret recipe” very, very closely. I wonder what that secret ingredient is? Funny how that particular cola can be so addictive…
Here’s a little trivia about cola:
The distributors of one brand of cola have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years
In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of cola in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident
You can put a T-bone steak into a bowl of cola and it will be gone (dissolved) in two days
To clean a toilet, pour a can of cola into the toilet bowl and let the “real thing” sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in cola removes stains from vitreous china
To remove grease from clothes, empty a can of cola into a load of greasy clothes. Add detergent and run
through a regular cycle. The cola will help loosen grease stains
To clean corrosion from car battery terminals, pour a can of cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion
To loosen a rusted bolt, apply a cloth soaked in cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes
To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers, rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of aluminum foil dipped in cola
To carry cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials
Just when you thought it was safe to glue that cell phone to your ear…
Cellular phones can take as little as 10 minutes to trigger changes in the brain that are associated with cancer, scientists claimed yesterday.
A new study by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has suggested that “nonthermal” radiation could potentially pose a risk of cancer forming in the brain.
In the laboratory, scientists exposed human and rat cells to low-levels of radiation (875 megahertz), a frequency similar to that used in many cellular phones. Researchers reporting in the Biochemical Journal stated that although the radiation was much weaker than emissions from a typical cell phone, it began to switch on a chemical signal inside these cells within ten minutes.
The chemical signals the scientists detected were involved in the division of cells.
Dr Rony Seger, co-author of the study, told The New Scientist: “The significance lies in showing cells do react to cellphone radiation in a non-thermal way.” Although the changes in the chemical pathway seen by the Israeli scientists have been linked to several cancers, the researchers say there was no sign of a cancer-causing effect…
Ok, the above was a short review taken from a UK national newspaper report today. On the one hand the original headline (not mine) set the scaremongers chattering doom and gloom reopening the debate on the safety or otherwise of cellular phones. The full report goes on to quote arguments for and against by several experts but ends up saying nothing of any real conclusive value, except there is a possibility that cellular phones may cause tumours in the brain.
Take it or leave it if you wish, but the old saying “there’s no smoke without fire” springs to mind here.
Personally, I hate the wretched things. They are intrusive and annoying devices invented so that other people can talk to you when they want to! Never mind they might be interrupting a conversation or stop you while you’re in the middle of something important.
Just look around you.
How many times have you been talking to someone when your phone rang and you immediately cut the conversation to answer the blasted thing? How often have you been engrossed in a great movie only to hit the pause button the second your phone starts to ring?
It compels you to answer it! You have no choice, no control, you have to answer it!
To highlight this phenomenon, recently I had been sitting through an episode of Lost (oh yeah!) and my phone rang. I ignored it and my partner went garrity! “Aren’t you going to answer it?” she screamed.
Actually, no - I don’t care if someone wants this or that, they can wait. I’m busy!
The look of horror and incredulity on her face said it all. I’d committed a heinous crime in not doing it’s evil bidding by answering it’s shrill demand. How dare I ignore it? It could be important!
As important as enjoying fully that episode of Lost? Nah!
But it does beg the question. Have we truly become slaves to the horrid little things?
As we’re mostly made of water, it stands to reason that lack of it will make us ill. Dehydration is the cause of many “common” ailments that most people would never attribute to lack of the stuff. Here’s a few statistics:
1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated
2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger
3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as much as 3%
4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study
5. Lack of water is the number One trigger of daytime fatigue
6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers
7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page
8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%. It can also slash the risk of breast cancer by 79% and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer
There’s more.
As a sufferer of arthritis in my past, I found that dehydration brought on severe attacks of gout. This theory was given a lot of weight after speaking to several people who had major operations and found that upon recovery then suffered attacks of gout, due to the natural dehydration that their bodies suffered because of the operation in that they were unable to take liquid pre-op and also during the long sleep afterwards. The saline drip does not provide enough liquid to completely stave off dehydration.
This state of dehydration must tie in with reduced kidney function reducing their ability to purge uric acid from the bloodstream. Increased levels of uric acid in the blood is a known cause of arthritis and gout (actually these two are one and the same disease - gout is just a severe, localised arthritic attack in one joint or another).
There are only benefits to drinking plenty of water each day. It should not be substituted with fizzy drinks which are only bad for you or tea, coffee or alcoholic drinks which all dehydrate you. Aim to drink around two lites of water a day and you’ll be surprised at the improvement ion your general health, skin complexion and state of mind!
I’ll take a break from the natural remedy tips for a moment - there will be plenty more to come, don’t worry! That’s because every now and again, I’m reminded of something that is really important that I should write about in here.
The title says it all really. If you are still a smoker, then whatever else you try to do to improve your health it is being undermined a hundredfold by your intake of all the poisonous chemicals contained in tobacco smoke. Do I need to go into what all those chemicals are right here? Surely not, as by now I believe that just about every smoker on the planet knows that it is bad for their health.
If you don’t fall into this category and actually believe for some unknown reason that cigarette smoke is not harmful to you, your health and the health of those around you, then wake up and get educated!
SMOKING WILL KILL YOU!
That’s no idle statement, it’s a fact. If you don’t die directly from cancer of the lungs, throat, esophagus, or mouth, or from a heart attack caused by the narrowing and hardening of your arteries, you will probably die of an indirect cause of smoking, like thrombosis, stroke, embolism, cancer of other organs, and leukemia. Add to that dying of shock caused by having to have your leg amputated because gangrene had set in due to the lack of blood supply - caused by blocked arteries - caused by the nicotine in tobacco smoke. That last one happened to a friend of mine ten years ago. He was one of those people who knew his sixty a day habit was killing him but didn’t want to do anything about it, “because I enjoy a cigarette”.
The loving wife and children he left behind weren’t best pleased by his selfishness.
Still want to smoke?
Well if you want to quit but are having a hard time doing it, there are many self-help books around that all claim to be able to help you to quit the habit. Unfortunately, they can only advise, show you methods, ways and means, and give you directions on how to stop. What they can’t do is MAKE YOU QUIT.
There’s only one person who can do that. YOU!
But if you have the determination and the want to actually quit, then you stand a very good chance of success. There is a program that has had a lot of success with people who are determined to quit. It’s pricey, but then what price do you place on your life? If you want to read some more about it, there is a link to the website at the end of this post, of you can click on the image on the left.
The bottom line is that it has to be your decision to quit and yours alone. Because only you can make you quit and stay quit, nobody else.
Terry Didcott is a qualified hypnotherapist and web designer among other things, but what truly inspired him to create this website was his life changing experience about thirteen years ago. Read the full article HERE
