Raising awareness about things everyone is aware of.

[undamned]

Hummus. Hummus cures everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8mY09lNg1I
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[Mischief Maker]

You know, watch enough nature documentaries and you'll be struck by how many animals there are physically evolved to eat plants and animals that are somewhat toxic to them. Usually they supplement their poisonous diet by eating clay, nature's pepto-bismol.

Cancer is not a specific malady, it's the result when damage to your DNA outpaces your body's ability to repair it. Technically speaking, you're curing yourself of cancer every day of your life until you're overwhelmed. Stress puts you into fight-or-flight, which suspends your regenerative functions so all your energy can be poured into a short-term life-or-death struggle.

Certain foods may change the battlefield a bit in cancer's favor, but worrying about the side-effects of your diet causes stress that stops you from fighting cancer entirely.

Case in point, George Burns smoked cigars his entire life and lived to be 100 (and didn't die of cancer). Why? Because he was a professional comedian, someone working in the stress-relief business. Whatever damage the cigars were doing to his system, his low stress was able to neutralize it.

Instead of worrying about eating the right things, I suggest trusting your body's ability to look after itself and put your attention toward flavor-balancing your meals. You can eat an entire goddamn bag of potato chips and still be hungry because the meal wasn't flavor-balanced and your body isn't satisfied it got all the nutrients it needs. Have a proper flavor-balanced meal and you'll be more satisfied by less food. Less food means ingesting less problem ingredients, and the satisfaction from a flavor-balanced meal relieves stress, letting your body mobilize cancer-suppression at full force.

Just my 2 cents.

[drauch]

[quote="Mischief Maker"]You can eat an entire goddamn bag of potato chips and still be hungry because the meal wasn't flavor-balanced and your body isn't satisfied it got all the nutrients it needs. quote]

Nah, dude, I used to do that all the time. I got full and sick and I didn't want to eat the rest of the day. Good way to save money, though.

[Mischief Maker]

And now your ability to make quote tags is impaired! By cancer!

[drauch]

And now your ability to make quote tags is impaired! By cancer!

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keeping that so everyone knows what I'm facing.

Someone please start a Kickstarter for my cancer. I need large breasted girls and PCBs because I'm too old for Make A Wish.

[Rob]

but worrying about the side-effects of your diet causes stress that stops you from fighting cancer entirely.

While I'm sure not stressing about bad habits is better than having bad habits and stressing about them, surely not having bad habits to stress about is the champ. No amount of gleeful ignorance will change the science of food. Sometimes we have to step back and examine the mechanisms of things and not leave our fates entirely to chance. America has too many helpless victims as it is.

Case in point, George Burns smoked cigars his entire life and lived to be 100 (and didn't die of cancer). Why? Because he was a professional comedian,

Are you suggesting all smokers need is meditation or lives in show business to dodge those well-documented bullets? Let's not be too silly.

Instead of worrying about eating the right things, I suggest trusting your body's ability to look after itself and put your attention toward flavor-balancing your meals.

No worrying necessary - learning about food and nutrition is fun. Trying new things is fun. Eating clean food feels good, like drinking clean water and breathing clean air feels good. The reason you'd still be hungry after eating a bag of chips is because it's lacking in bulk and nutrition. There is no need to eat less food, just less garbage.

[Acid King]

Nah, dude, I used to do that all the time. I got full and sick and I didn't want to eat the rest of the day. Good way to save money, though.

If I was trying to save money I would skip the chips and just buy some potatoes.

[drauch]

Yeah, but potatoes don't really taste good by themselves, at least in my mouth. At least with chips you're get a couple of minutes of delight before you start getting sick and you're just punishing yourself.

[Acid King]

You need some salt, pepper, and my secret ingredient.

[drauch]

Now we're talkin'!

[Rob]

Pure lard is wasted on potatoes. Gotta save it as a base for ham smoothies.