Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Oh man, you guys HAVE to see this!!!

Friday, March 11, 2011

[fast5] Re: Oh man, you guys HAVE to see this!!!

Heather, I was reading on a naturopathic dental website yesterday about how mercury from amalgam fillings has many adverse effects on the body but notably it can cause the thyroid to malfunction. I have also read that fluoride in the water is a REAL danger to not only our bones but to our thyroid.

I wonder if other countries in Asia and for instance in your case, the Germans of old, had no amalgam fillings, fluoride, or yearly radiation from dental visits? It seems to me that modern medicine (dentists for instance) don't treat the body holistically and put thinks in us that really have no business being there.

Thoughts?

-Rick

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
>

> It's really interesting seeing what happens to the Asians on an American
> diet. You can see the older generation ... usually not speaking much
> English, and shorter, but very active and alert and healthy. And the
> generation brought up in America ... usually much taller, but also less
> healthy (acne, overweight, crooked teeth). It's a question I'm really
> interested in finding the answer to. My own grandmother came from the "old
> country" (in this case, Germany), was very short, active, and lived to be 96
> ... she never did have any kind of high blood pressure, heart disease, or
> blood sugar problems. Her son, my Dad, was raised here and had myriad health
> problems. And his kids (me and my sibs) have even more health problems. So
> what, exactly, changed?
>
> For that matter, what, exactly, is it that makes McDonald's food bad? I
> mean, we have this intuitive sense that it is bad for us, and I can say that
> experientially, it doesn't work for me either. But why? It's not the carbs
> ... white rice does fine in the Asian diet. It's not the tiny bit of meat
> ... people talk about McDonald's like there is a ton of beef in it, but
> there is in fact very little actual meat. It does have too many of the wrong
> kinds of fats (the kind that go rancid), and the food goes through some odd
> processes that might increase things like acrylamides. But in Thailand, they
> have "fast food" down to an art and that doesn't seem to be impacting the
> health of the population at all ... they do deep-fried shrimp and tarantulas
> or whatever.
>
> I think if we could answer that one question it would go a long way to
> solving this mystery!