(02-15-2015, 03:14 PM)Icaro Wrote: It's strange isn't it. So the real question is why and how is that possible?
Apparently, there are myriad factors to health. Ultimately, everything is catalyst, and that alone can explain why 1 person can smoke cigarettes and get lung cancer, while another doesn't, or why 1 person might get arthritis from drinking sodas, while another doesn't.
Surely, one's attitudes, emotions, genetics, stress level, environment, karma, etc. all come into play.
But, overall, people aren't getting away with ingesting these poisons. 1 out of 2 women and 1 out of 3 men get cancer, and 1 in 3 children will get diagnosed with diabetes. We know that excess acidity causes cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and other degenerative diseases. Soda is the most acidifying thing one can put in their body. The acidifying effect is even worse than sugar or aspartame (which can cause brain tumors), so diet soda is a double whammy and is probably the single most toxic substance one can ingest, next to maybe cigarettes.
Many people think they are 'getting away with it' for many years, but the diseases eventually catch up with them. They just might not link their cancer or arthritis to the sodas they've been drinking for decades, unless they do some research and get educated on the subject, because in the US, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, etc. are generally considered 'just things that happen out of the blue' with very little regard to causes, and drugs are given that treat the symptoms, without addressing the root cause.
Yet, still some people do get away with it...like Uncle Charlie. Knowing that most people don't, we each make our own choice as to whether we think we'll be like Uncle Charlie.