Disassociation

May 21

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“In a public comment posted on the FTC website, our friends at General Mills pointed out that under the IWG guidelines, the most commonly consumed foods in the US would be considered unhealthy. Specifically, according to General Mills, “of the 100 most commonly consumed foods and beverages in America, 88 would fail the IWG’s proposed standards.” So you see? If you people start eating the way the nutrition experts at the CDC and USDA recommend that you eat, that would delegitimize almost 90 percent of the products we produce! Do you realize how much money that would cost us?” — Dear American Consumers: Please Don’t Start Eating Healthfully. Sincerely, the Food Industry | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network

May 20

Acid/Alkaline Theory of Disease Is Nonsense -

davetrains:

Just putting this here for reference.

Dietary modification cannot change the acidity of any part of your body except your urine. Your bloodstream and organs control acidity in a very narrow range. Anything that changed acidity in your body would make you very sick and could even kill you. Promoters of these products claim that cancer cells cannot live in an alkaline environment and that is true, but neither can any of the other cells in your body.

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Alan Watts - The veil of thoughts - complete - original - YouTube -

There are some magnificent things in this talk.

It is 1hr 13mins long, so take some time.

You won’t agree with all the things he says, but who does?

It sometimes takes a little time for his point to become apparent ;-)

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“You can probably expect that somebody who’s willing to read and read hard a thousand-page book is gonna be somebody with some loneliness issues. Or somebody who’s looking, somebody like me or perhaps like you, who isn’t always able to get the sense of intimacy they need. You know, in regular day-to-day intercourse.” —

David Foster Wallace, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself (via urlascandalose)

I’m not sure I entirely agree with this. Or even remotely agree with it. But I like that someone’s putting it out there.

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