Natural.... who gives a damn?

You know what? i'm sick and tired of all this natural crap coming out lately. Even vitamin pills are getting a two thumbs down these days! "you should eat fruits and vegetables, they're natural sources of vitamins, not chemicals." Fruits and veggies aren't worth crap in my book. The only thing they're good for is sugar and fibers to make you visit the crapper more often. Even the sugar in fruits is crappy! it's fructose for god's sake! only 50 grams of it gets stored in the muscle cell as glycogen, the rest is used for energy. Knowing people's activity levels these days, it'll eventually (very very soon i might add) go to the fat cells. Vitamins in fruits and veggies? I consider them as negligible amounts. Why? take an orange, for instnace. One medium sized orange has 60 mg of vitamin C. A glass of orange juice has 90 mg of vitamin C. It would take 40 glasses of orange juice to get my vitamin C daily requirments (4 grams). That would also amount to 1200 grams of sugar (fructose), which ends up at 4800 calories from pure sugar. Talking about anti-oxidants and all that crap. What the hell do you think is in a vitamin pill? carcinogens? They have more anti-oxidants in one pill than you'll ever get eating fruits and veggies for a whole year. "But i heard too much anti-oxidants cause cancer." yeah, and too little cause cancer too. Oh, and just the right amount causes cancer also. Cancer, gimme a freaking break. "OH MY GOD!! you're saying cancer too many times!! that's how you get it!!!" That's what everyone around here thinks, really. Just say cancer and everyone will freaking plug their ears and start making loud noises. You know what cancer is? a genetic defect. That's my personal opinion. If it weren't, everyone who smokes would get lung cancer. Everyone who ever drank cool-aid will get leukemia. Everyone who ever woke up and went for a walk under the sun would get skin cancer. Yes, somethings tend to increase the formation of cancer cells, but still, if the gene isn't defected, nothing's gonna happen. That's my personal opinion though. "I heard this causes cancer" "I heard that causes cancer." "some research shows that this causes cancer." Who the hell cares? you want cancer? go outside, take a deeeeeeeeeeeep breath. Do you feel it? that's cancer. All those fumes and little particels that are coming out of all the cars and factories and all the UV rays coming from the sun and the cows farts that are being realesed, that's cancer right there. What's my point???? Cancer is natural. that's why it's there. no amount of staying away from "Processed foods" or "chemicals" will help. If it's in your gene code, you'll get it sooner or later. But that's just me. Why listen?

Anyway, let's go back to being "natural", shall we? OK, let's go back 20,000 years ago. What do you think the average male's life expectancy was? 25? 30? 35, max? I really don't know, but i guess it's around those numbers. Why? because of diseases. Viral infections, bacterial infections, defficiencies, and CANCER! Now, take your fingers out of your ears and stop yelling. Did those people have any "chemically enhanced" foods? Did they have McDonalds? Did they have cigarettes? (they probably did, right after they discovered fire to light it). They were all NATURAL! Meaning they could not fight off any diseases of any sort. Our immune system is weak. very very very weak. It can't even fight off a little itty bitty flu virus. That's why we NEED to chemically enhance our bodies. That's why the life expectancy doubled! Medicine, vitamins, supplements, all the good stuff! Talk to me about herbs and "natural" medicine... pffff... gimme a freaking break. Let me tell you a little something about these "natural" and "herbal" products. Most of them are just a scam. I'll tell you a little story. saturday morninig, I started to develope a bacterial infection in my throat (strep throat). I get this crap every year, same time too. 3 years ago, I wanted to beat it off naturally! Big whoop! Ended up with a major infection 3 weeks later and going on anti biotics for 2 more weeks. I tried it all! the herbal remedies, honey lemon and tea, garlic and salt, cinammon, and god knows what. Why? because i was also sucked into the notion that antibiotics destroy the immune system and make it weaker. A year later, same thing happened. I told myself to try and beat it off naturally (cuz i'm a dumb a**) for a week, and then go to the doctor if it presisted. guess what? a week later i was at the doctor's office with a throat and ear infection. Again, went on anti biotics. Last year, 2 days after i got the infection, i went on antibiotics for 4 days and it went away. This year? started antibiotics on sunday morning. Today, monday, it's clearing up. Yes, i'm still doing 2 hours of cardio and 1 hour of weight training. This crappy infection won't set me back. Anyway, i've already downed 2 boxes of strepsils and on to my third, and i'll be on antibiotics for 6 more days. Why? cause this time i did my research. I found some pretty interesting facts. ofcourse, there were two points of views. One from the "Natural, herbal remedy" crap sites, and the other from the medical websites. here's what they had to say:

Natural, herbal crap

1- Antibiotics inhibit the immune system and make it weaker
2- many people have allergies towards antibiotics
3- every time you use an antibiotic, the bacteria evolves and attacks to the point where antibiotics don't work.
4- natural products strengthen the immune system and makes it much more efficient in fighting off diseases
5- Natural products do not inhibit the body's immune system like antibiotics

Medical research

1- Antibiotics do not inhibit the immune system. The immune system is usually too weak to fight off bacteria by itself. Antibiotics Work with the body to fight it off.
2- The most common problem with antibiotics is ending treatment BEFORE THE SPECIFIED TIME. This results in the survival of the bacteria with the strongest resistance to the antibiotic and multiplies. this results in a stronger infection which cannot be cured by the former antibiotic and will need a much stronger one.
3- The is NO EVIDENCE that "natural" products boost the immune system.



To all the folks that still believe in "natural" food and supplements, have a great life.
To the people who prefer to mix it up with chemicals, have a great longer life.

Again, this is my personal opinion, except for the research part. That just supports my opinion ;)