Even if RFK Jr forces Coca Cola and Pepsi to use cane sugar, I'm still going to support the little guys who have been doing it since the beginning.
@beardalaxy I don't think I could ever enjoy a Crush or Fanta again after drinking their orange sodas.
@PurpCat @beardalaxy Back in health class in high school our health teacher told us that in parties that it's a good idea to actually finish a drink before getting up to talk to someone, use the bathroom, or something like that. Otherwise, someone might piss in it when you are not looking.
@icedquinn RFK Jr is right about almost everything related to food, but I feel like people are putting way too much faith in him. There are plenty of alternative food and drinks that don't use seed oils or beet sugars and they aren't that expensive. You don't even need to go to a farmer's market or health food store to buy them, just shop in the outer perimeter of your store. Meijer has a huge selection of cane sugar sodas.
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And how cheap are these treatments? Do you support these being offered as free healthcare (as in paid with your tax money)? Do you support these treatments becoming mandatory? (cause otherwise I foresee a lot of people not going to the dentist to get them, even if they're free).
@icedquinn @djsumdog @xianc78
> every dental product says DO NOT INGEST CALL POISON CONTROL.
That's because
1) toothpaste has other stuff in it besides fluoride, that are likely significantly more harmful
2) toothpaste has a higher concentration of fluoride than water does, so it's not as safe to ingest as tap water
3) it's their lawyer approved messaging so that they won't get sued if you do ingest toothpaste and get an unforeseen reaction.
In massive amounts, sure fluoride is gonna be bad, just like everything else. And I've heard it recommended by fluoride advocates that it's a good idea to look for unfluorided toothpaste for children, because tap water will already have plenty and if they accidentally ingest some toothpaste (which children are more likely to do), they could go into overdose zone. Though I think the child needs to be extra toothpaste hungry for it to actually have some effect. But it's one of those "better safe than sorry" situations.
As far as I'm concerned the fluoride fear is overblown. Worst case scenario, compare your tap water concentration to what other European countries are doing, and if you're an outlier with a much higher dose (I've heard some people say this is the case for USA), advocate for a reduction.
@djsumdog @icedquinn @skylar @H_A_Copington I think the real solution is to get the right amount of vitamins in. Vitamin B6 + Magnesium can produce serotonin naturally.
@skylar @icedquinn @djsumdog @tinosoft @H_A_Copington I think the only meats that are rich in magnesium are fish, and said fish need to be rich in fat.
If you read about most people who make it past 100 (centennials) you'll fine people who just eat fish and chips or who don't exercise other than walking or short bike rides or who smoke. Meanwhile most marathon runners don't make it to 80 (heavy intake and burn of energy reduces your lifespan a bit).
Living to 100 is probably pure genetic lottery. There's nothing you can do to get you there, and there probably aren't a lot of them because there's zero evolutionary pressure that benefits humans for living that long.
@djsumdog @icedquinn @RedTechEngineer @xianc78 @skylar
My main theory is that the people who reached 100 didn't spend their entire lives in polluted urban hellholes. How often do we see a centennial giving an interview from his New York flat, and how often do we see them give an interview from their house in a small town or village, in the middle of nowhere, in some place you've never heard of. I've seen cases where they don't even live in fully modernized areas. And it's almost a trope to hear them say "I've lived in this house my entire life".
I think we underestimate the stress of living in urban environments and the effects it has on our bodies.
@djsumdog @icedquinn The rise of the anti-fluoride movement has been going on for a while now, even before Trump appointed RFK. There have been fluoride lawsuits going on for the past few years. Derrick Broze has been covering some of the lawsuits.
https://theconsciousresistance.com/?s=fluoride
Luckily, I have been using a fluoride filter jug from Epic for almost a year now.
@RedTechEngineer @icedquinn It's often GMO.
https://mileswmathis.com/hansen.pdf
@icedquinn Okay RFK got one thing wrong. It's that the solution to seed oils isn't beef tallow. Coconut oil blows both seed oils and beef tallow out of the water.
https://www.endalldisease.com/coconut-oil-miracle-medicine-quack/
https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/coconut-oil.shtml
@xianc78 jones and boylan are fantastic