Refined sugar can be addicting but is unhealthy. Sugar in whole fruit is healthy but not addicting. In fact living on fruit is a great way to get over a junkfood addiction and learn how to fast.
Modern medicine is made by the medical industry and thus is made to serve the medical industry. Cures are not good business because with every success one loses a customer, but selling pills which keep people sick but alleviate symptoms are great for making money since one gets lifelong customers and the pills can often by patented. There is a conflict of interest here.
I definitely do not know better than medical authorities on how to make money from sick people.
I detox through fruit and fasting and it worked great for me.
But I have no evidence for it, all I set out to do was cure myself. I needed no more evidence than a healthy body after I gave it a chance.
Just like a catalyst influences how a reaction deals with it's fuel so do the other nutrients change how our body deals with sugar. Some reactions can be drastically changed by what surrounds the thing that undergoes the actual reaction.The chemical composition is exactly the same. The effect on insulin is EXACTLY the same. Sugar is sugar.
Who talks about mays and correlations. Again: They did not say that coffee is healthy.You definitely also don't know better than a well regarded NONPROFIT medical group.,
Only when they get the time to do so. This is what fasting and fruit eating are for. It stops the flow of waste coming in and frees the body to focus on old waste instead of being occupied with all the new waste that is coming in. Not giving their detoxing organs time to detox old waste is why many people are sick and overweight despite having both kidney's and their liver and all other human detoxing organs.Know what actually detoxes you? Your liver, also your kidneys.
I am not preaching since I am not saying what you must do, just explaining what I live by. I do not let others decide how I should live and I would not expect you to either. You are free to drink as much coffee as you want. As for tea, I drink it but am not addicted to it. I do not need a daily dose of tea to feel good. But if I did then I would consider tea to be unhealthy and would get rid of my addiction.Figures. Didn't stop you from preaching about how coffee is poison (and ignoring caffeine in tea).
I haven't seen anyone claiming it is here to be honest, just people saying it's not that bad for you.Who talks about mays and correlations. Again: They did not say that coffee is healthy.
People are overweight because their bodies have made excess fat to enable them to fast for longer. But people are sick for a whole host of different reasons, traditionally with body weight having very little to do with it, but maybe that's changing as we cure all of the other diseases that used to end out lives early.Only when they get the time to do so. This is what fasting and fruit eating are for. It stops the flow of waste coming in and frees the body to focus on old waste instead of being occupied with all the new waste that is coming in. Not giving their detoxing organs time to detox old waste is why many people are sick and overweight despite having both kidney's and their liver and all other human detoxing organs.
Yeah, fair enough. On most days I have a double espresso after waking, which I think it more about the care taken to fill and assemble to moka pot giving me the time to work out what to do next. Today though, I had to go out early so I didn't have a coffee, and is hasn't made me feel any different, so I don't think I'm addicted to it. I used to drink about five cups of tea a day, and to be honest I don't know whether that has more or less caffeine in it than a double espresso.I am not preaching since I am not saying what you must do, just explaining what I live by. I do not let others decide how I should live and I would not expect you to either. You are free to drink as much coffee as you want. As for tea, I drink it but am not addicted to it. I do not need a daily dose of tea to feel good. But if I did then I would consider tea to be unhealthy and would get rid of my addiction.
Best coffee i ever found is Kimbo Espresso from Naples Italy.
Like 2 Euro there but around $20 to get off amazon anywhere else. Delicious.
I didn’t follow the coffee path unfortunately. It’s sad but I only had a handful of great tasting cups of coffee. A few of them in a café in Vienna. I would love to have a great coffee setup as well, but currently I am still overwhelmed with my tea journey
Great to hear you found a Gushu that you like. Yunnan is a great location for tea anyway. Can you recommend one? I only had one Gushu, but it was a little too astringent for my taste. Maybe I just brewed it wrong, I don’t know, I didn’t have a lot of it.
Currently I am mostly drinking green tea and oolong. My morning usually starts with a matcha![]()
Whoa, hold up. Coffee wasn't dreamt up by big pharma. It's natural; it's of the earth.
Of course, so is tobacco...
Edit: Also, I just now realized, I'm pretty sure I'm not drinking organic coffee.![]()
Back when I was still pretty fat and fasted for 3 days for the first time I got really sick since the second day.People are overweight because their bodies have made excess fat to enable them to fast for longer.
The people who said that include me. I already said that coffee is not very bad for people's health. All I said is that coffee is slightly unhealthy and thus not worth the effort of trying to like it for people who do not like it. I guess that people have misunderstood what I said. I never suggested that people who do like coffee should stop with it. In fact I would drink coffee in moderation if I liked it.I haven't seen anyone claiming it is here to be honest, just people saying it's not that bad for you.
I get the impression you tend to extremes. First, extremely unhealthy junk food lifestyle, now an extreme focus on "health". Extremes are mostly unhealthy, funnily enough, even when targeted at health. Take extreme hygiene: It seems to further allergies. Extreme skin care: perioral dermatitis. I could go on. Coffee, on the other hand, besides everything mentioned already, seems to alleviate consequences of a stroke... also, prevent alzheimers and type 2 diabetes, it seems. (All these studies indicators, but not proven beyond doubt, as usual in serious science. Type 2 diabetes seems to have a huge data basis, though.)All I said is that coffee is slightly unhealthy and thus not worth the effort of trying to like it for people who do not like it. I guess that people have misunderstood what I said. I never suggested that people who do like coffee should stop with it. In fact I would drink coffee in moderation if I liked it.
To me this is utter madness
I'm going to stick to my balanced diet, because it hasn't killed me yet
The difference between a coffee addiction and my fruit "addiction" is that I am not actually addicted to fruit,
There are always less healthy foods to fall back on like vegetables or peanuts.
Humans are frugivores and for a human living on fruit is natural and normal.
For me the real extremists are people eating a "balanced" diet. Humans do not have a balanced physiology. Dogs and bears come closer to being balanced, they are mostly carnivorous but not as extremely so as lions or cats. I am not surprised at all that humans are the sickest species on Earth.
Same goes for meat. I find it madness that despite us having all the typical characteristics of plant eaters and no characteristic of meat eaters we think that we need meat, but we need to cook it and add plant based flavour to it first because we actually do not like the taste of meat. And we need to eat it dead, unlike real carnivorous who prefer their meat with the blood still flowing through it.
Yet fruit which has a perfect taste to us immediately is unnatural and unhealthy because of the sugar. If natural sugar is so unhealthy, then why are we optimised with our colour vision to find ripe fruit and with our taste buds to enjoy it? Is this a cruel prank or fatal mistake of nature? Or are humans, the sickest animals on Earth, the ones who do not know what is healthy for them?
Incisors are not suited for tearing flesh. Tearing flesh requires pointy teeth like those of carnivorous mammals, biting off fruit requires incisors. All we have are incisors for biting off fruit and molars for chewing. Our canines are also just incisors. Chimpansees have real canines unlike us, and even they live on fruit and eat only less than 2% meat, and only the males hunt.Our front teeth are for tearing flesh as are the canines.
We are no prey animal either. Our flat feet and thick legs makes us slow. Just like other mammals with flat feet and thick straight legs (all of which are plant eaters) we are neither prey not predator.We have eyes in the front of our head not the sides which is typical of predator/prey.
Which prey animal do we outrun? Humans have great endurance when walking or standing, but that is typical for plant eating mammals. Carnivorous mammals however need to lie down all day because they walk on their toes which causes their legs to be bent which is very inefficient with walking and standing.We are one of the fastest animals on land and have huge amounts of endurance.
We cook meat because unlike every carnivorous mammal we can easily get diseases from meat. We lack the immunity that real carnivores have. Why do we not cook our fruit? Because our body is made to reward us for fruit eating. Fruit is safe and tasty right out of nature because we are made for it. We are the only animals who need to cook their food because we are the only animal that eats unnaturally. Would cows need to cook their meat? Maybe add some grass flavour? Maybe so, but they do not need to cook their grass because no animal needs to cook their natural food.We cook meat because we realized we are less apt to catching diseases if we do so.
What is it's purpose? It does make us the best finder of ripe fruit out of all animals, on a shared #1 spot with other fruit eaters like every other primate. It also makes us crappy hunters, we lack good sense of smell and we lack good hearing and thanks to colour vision we also cannot have night vision. Predators like lions can smell which of their prey animals have certain diseases which helps them separate good prey from bad prey before they even start chasing. We cannot do that, but unlike carnivorous mammals we can use our exceptionally good colour vision to separate ripe fruit from unripe fruit before we even start climbing the tree that it is in.Color vision was not for that purpose.
I do not need other people's approval for my diet. Therefore despite my diet being unconventional I do not need the assistance of a sect. In fact many of my fat friends disagree with me on dietary issues. But I do not talk much to friends about diet. It gets on people's nerves quickly if I do. I save the talking for forums filled with strangers.Dude, what's your sect name?
Quite, our early development of butchery and cooking in our evolutionary past have reset us to be built rather more like the plant eaters compared to our modern brethren.Incisors are not suited for tearing flesh. Tearing flesh requires pointy teeth like those of carnivorous mammals, biting off fruit requires incisors. All we have are incisors for biting off fruit and molars for chewing. Our canines are also just incisors. Chimpansees have real canines unlike us, and even they live on fruit and eat only less than 2% meat, and only the males hunt.
Also predators cannot move their jaw sideways because that way their jaw is stronger, preventing it from dislocating while they are ripping flesh. Our jaws can move sideways because we need to chew and do not need to rip flesh that much anyway. No carnivorous mammal is even able to chew his food, but all plant eating mammals chew their food like us.
We are no prey animal either. Our flat feet and thick legs makes us slow. Just like other mammals with flat feet and thick straight legs (all of which are plant eaters) we are neither prey not predator.
I'm pretty sure I can outrun a sheep or a goat, even adapted as I am to getting food from the shops and not actually being trained to hunt any more, even on uneven ground where the hoof is an advantage. I've had to chase sheep back to their field before now, at a mere canter. I might even be able to chase down an uninjured cow after a few hours, though that's untested. Of course, the real question is, can I chase down an animal after I've got one of my new fangled spears in its side?Which prey animal do we outrun? Humans have great endurance when walking or standing, but that is typical for plant eating mammals. Carnivorous mammals however need to lie down all day because they walk on their toes which causes their legs to be bent which is very inefficient with walking and standing.
Carnivorous animals that eat their meat fresh don't have to worry because the immune system of the animal will have kept bugs at a safe level until it was very recently killed. We can still eat meat raw in the main, though I wouldn't trust chicken personally, largely due to the modern farming methods which have over-stressed the animals and made their meat suspicious. But cooking the meat which I perhaps should reiterate is something we've been doing long enough to be visible in our modern genetic makeup, makes it easier to chew with our molars.We cook meat because unlike every carnivorous mammal we can easily get diseases from meat. We lack the immunity that real carnivores have.
Incisors are not suited for tearing flesh
predators cannot move their jaw sideways because that way their jaw is stronger, preventing it from dislocating while they are ripping flesh
Which prey animal do we outrun?
We lack the immunity that real carnivores have
What is it's purpose? (re colour vision) It does make us the best finder of ripe fruit out of all animals
Cues, not queues FWIW.We have great colour vision to be able to more easily distinguish poisonous or deadly animals / plants, as well as being able to distinguish prey animals that are much less obvious to other predators (many predators react to movement more than other visual queues).
