The problems and sickness we experience is usually caused because we feed our bodies the wrong fuel. You don't pour jet fuel into a high performance car engine thinking it will run better. Why oh why do we pour trash and dirt into our own human engine thinking it can handle all that without problems?
We feed that body for years nothing but junk and wonder what went wrong. Then we go to the engine specialists (doctors) looking for a tune up when all the ones who knew have long retired and all the new ones were never taught the basics.
Then we wonder as a society why we are the most advanced pill popping, medical seeking population to ever be born?
First off most of what you buy in the super market is "green picked" if it is "fresh vegetables or fruit". Go eat your lawn. It has the same nutritional value. Those canned goods you want to open, heat up in the microwave, and toss down your throat? So damn much processing went on to that goop before it ever hit the can and was sealed up for our consumption left little or no nutritional value in it. Do you have a tree? Eat the leaves. Do a whole lot more for you. You're getting all the right proteins and vitamins when eating out because..., Yeah right. They buy their food the same place you do, only in bulk quantity. Add a lot of spices and seasoning and it sure appeals to the eyes and the palate doesn't it?
Many of the authors and readers on sites like this are taking hormones of one kind or another. Sadly many are financially struggling and feeding their "high performance engine" called a body isn't top priority. They toss anything and everything down the carburetor (throat) thinking fuel (food) is food and is all the same.
If one is suffering from some diagnosed or misdiagnosed disease or illness, cheer up. Our medical system is the best in the world for passing out treatment for whatever ails you. I didn't say curing you I said treating you. Selling you doctor visits, pills, and hospital stays until the day you finally croak.
The US is number one in pill popping for everything imagined and un imagined. Some things we need to give up as number one and let the other guys be first. A word of warning. IF you are one of those statistics for God's sake do NOT quit all at once or quit even slowly without professional help. Your body has tried to adjust to all you are putting into it by creating hormones and enzymes the medical field will never understand. Stopping all at once is like locking the brakes on a two hundred mile an hour race car. "Bad things happen" doesn't even begin to describe the chain of events.
I wish everyone health and happiness
Most of us can handle life as it comes at us if we have that
And as number one, find God. Don't wait until you die like I did to find Him.
Have fun with life
It's too short to take it seriously
always
Barb
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Actually
Jet fuel IS used in high performance car engines because of the octane level in it. Commonly referred to as vp 110, 120,130 depending on area. It prevents what is called 'Ping' in the engine. Compression ratios above 9.5 get ping unless there is sufficient octane to prevent it.
Many of the engine produced in the late 60's have compression ratio's above 10.5 so it's used a fair amount, also quite quasi-legal to obtain. You can buy it IF you have a document of sorts.
That said on to the next part. Some stores actually do have fresh vegetables picked locally from farms. Some are even "organic" ie no chemicals used to grow them. Many 'organic' labeled however are not so you have to know for sure.
In my area we have farmer markets where local farmers sell their produce. This includes some fantastic cheeses, beef, pork, sausages. Salt is generally not used as a preservative. Fish however is usually not fresh unless you go fish it yourself.
Home gardens are making a comeback as you see quite a few around backyards. Empty lots are being used to grow gardens, even some of the apartment buildings have plots on the roofs with beds that people grow vegetables in.
Not really.
Gas turbines (jet engines) run on what is mainly paraffin (kerosene) with some additives. The smell in our office if a test bed was running and the wind was in the wrong direction testified to that (I used to work for RR). AFAIK no cars run on paraffin but old Fordson tractors used to.
As a vegetarian I make sure no junk food passes my lips, almost no alcohol and very little sugar. However that doesn't mean I don't get ill and to suggest that diet is the sole cause of illness is patently wrong. Vegetarians get cancer, as well as viral and bacteriological infections just like everyone else. When we cycle toured Nepal we were careful to take our anti-malaria medicine and were careful about what we drank. Despite that, diarrhea was never far away :)
Robi
I agree.
Jet fuel is nowhere near gasoline. Indeed it is a kind of kerosene, high quality kerosene, mind you, but kerosene for sure. In the analogy, putting jet fuel in a modern high compression engine would be like me stepping out and grabbing any green thing growing out there and cooking it into a soup and hoping it was all edible and nontoxic.
I, on the other hand, have cut back severely on carbohydrates, (breads, crackers, pastas and sugar) and get moderate exercise daily. As a result, I've trimmed thirty-five pounds off the frame and aside from arthritis and blood pressure just high enough that I need the smallest dose of atenolol to bring it down to where the doctor is happy with it, I'm as healthy as horse. An occasional mild cold or maybe a dose of food poisoning. Oh, I did manage to come down with shingles a few years ago, again a mild case.
Good genes beat good diet any time. I've good good genes.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
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Not jet fuel
The stuff with the rating numbers above 100 is avgas; it's for internal combustion engines. Jets don't have compression ratios because they don't have pistons or cylinders, so they don't need high octane.
Avgas is a kind of gasoline. Gasoline is a mixture of heptane, octane, various isomers of those two and some additives, usually ethers or metal carbonyls that even out ignition to prevent pinging. Avgas is high in isooctane and especially oxygenated additives to prevent stalling as well as pinging and stop the formation of acids in the cylinders. If an internal combustion engine runs too hot, you get nitric oxide forming from the nitrogen in the air. Nitric oxide plus water and oxygen yields nitric acid. Making the fuel burn slower, more completely and more evenly allows higher compression ratios and less acid formed.
Nitrous oxide, btw, is the stuff dragsters inject for extra power. It's not the same thing as nitric oxide but ultimately causes engine problems, too. But drag race engines are rebuilt and replaced frequently for multiple reasons.
Kerosene is a heavier, less refined distillate of petroleum, usually without additives except maybe dye. It's called paraffin in some places because of old trademarks. It's made up of various hydrocarbons, straight, branched and cyclic with carbon numbers from 6 to 16. Fuels with more of the heavier chains are called fuel oil or diesel fuel and some of them have additives.
Hugs,
Erin
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I stick with the 4 major food groups.
As I've said many times: Sugar, Salt, Caffeine and Grease.
Catherine (greasy) Michel
As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script.
Correction
Well, I don't know who is right. They taught us in school that the four major food groups are ice cream, chocolate, pizza, and ice cream. This has kept us happy for years at our house. YMMV.
Annie!