(10-06-2012, 02:37 PM)zenmaster Wrote: Yeah but 'cancer in a can' is yet another overly zealous depiction, crafted for sensational effect (which we really don't need more of here). I don't lend much credence to exaggerations like that, because it is a good indication of laziness and lack of honesty.
I'll choose to not get offended by your crass comments and instead back up my statement.
It was proven back in 1931 that cancer can live only in an anaerobic (acidic) environment. Dr. Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize and his findings have never been refuted. The body is supposed to run between 7 and 7.5, according to many health practitioners (some of whom report astounding results with advanced stage cancer patients, by helping them alkalize their bodily tissues.) Cancer patients typically test in the 5 range. Advanced-stage cancer patients test at around 4.5 pH. Cancerous tissue is extremely acidic. That has been proven and isn't disputable. (The implications may be disputable, but the tangible evidence of the pH of cancerous tumors isn't disputable.)
Soda is extremely acidic - as low as 2.5 pH. Keep in mind that the pH scale is logarithmic, so it multiplies by a factor of 10 each time you go up a point.
Thus, a soda is 100,000 times more acidic than neutral. Um, that's kinda...huge, wouldn't ya say?
That's not even taking into consideration the effects of the refined sugar and/or aspartame, both of which have been linked to cancer.
So no, it's not an exaggeration at all to call it 'cancer in a can' nor is it sensationalistic. If it captures someone's attention and gets them to think about it (after they get over their defensiveness) then it can be a service and might even trigger a change in direction for them.
(10-06-2012, 02:50 PM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: I would say at least 95% of the cigarettes I ever smoked were additive-free. And I never experienced withdrawals or detox symptoms when I stepped away from them. In fact- the lack of these has been part of the problem in getting me to convince myself to give them up altogether! Also- a half-pack in a day would have been some pretty heavy smoking by my standards. I don't even know how people smoke more than that... you would have to pretty much be chain smoking all day every day!
Yeah...just as I can't fathom consuming 6 tsp of sugar!
Apparently, most of the toxicity is from the additives, not the tobacco itself. I get a raging headache anytime I'm around cig smoke, but I didn't get a headache when I visited the woman who smoked organic cigs. I almost left when I smelled the smoke in her house - I went there to install a loaner machine for her to try the water and almost walked right back out. But I didn't. I decided to stick it out and pop a Tylenol later if necessary - something I almost never do - rather than remove her opportunity to better her health with the water.
Later, I was surprised that I didn't have a headache! It wasn't until weeks later that she told me she only smoked organic cigs. I found this very telling!
By the way, the detox I was describing wasn't from quitting. These people didn't quit smoking. The detox was a cellular detox from drinking the water.
Interestingly, marijuana smoke has never been linked to lung cancer like cig smoke is. I always thought that didn't make any sense, since smoke is smoke, right? Plus, pot smoke has more tar. So it should, theoretically, cause more lung trouble than cig smoke, one would think. Yet that's not the case.
I guess it's because it doesn't have the additives.
But, recently there have been some links to other problems. I don't remember what they were exactly, since I only glanced over the article and it wasn't really relevant to me. But I remember something about today's designer weed being grown with pesticides and it's now causing problems that didn't exist with the old, organic weed we had growing up.