Posted by Larry Hoover on May 27, 2006, at 7:30:01
In reply to Re: TCA's are genotoxic ? Addendum » Larry Hoover, posted by Meri-Tuuli on May 27, 2006, at 4:24:00
> Hey there Lar,
>
> I'm totally with you on the vitamins and minerals issue. I don't think we can get the nutrients we need from the modern foods we have. And thats if we eat relatively healthily let alone with junk'empty calorie' foods in there too. Not to mention soil nutrient leaching, long shelf lives, etc etc. You know the issues.I remain in a near constant state of amazement, those issues which "make the news", and those that don't. The criterion is seldom risk itself.
> Yeah, sugar is definately a modern evil. Our bodies aren't equiped to deal with all the sugar/refined stuff we eat!! But yeah, anyway. Do I avoid eating sweet stuff?? Hahahaha no, I can't live without my daily danish pastry!!! *And* both my parents have type II diabetes.
Do you know what's worse than plain old sugar? High fructose corn syrup. Anyway. I'll leave that until another day.
> Well as for TCAs and cancer etc, I'm aware of the common notion that 'everything causes cancer' (as my friends lovingly recite when I refuse to eat anything 'chargrilled') but well, if 85% of cancers are preventable, and if 1 in 3 people will get cancer, then I'm sure as hell going to do everything to avoid getting it in the first place, even if that means avoiding TCAs because there might be a *slight* chance of it mutating any of my precious little cells. I'm sure, for example, that living in a polluted urban environment will give me a higher probabilty of getting cancer, but thats a factor thats not easily controlled, eg most jobs are in urban environments. But having the choice of taking a TCA or not, is something I can control to some degree.Except, it's a false dichotomy. Very few chemicals receive most of the research, while others go on, unnoticed. It's the 80/20 rule, only more like 99/1.
> So I won't be taking them. Not that I was going to anyway!!!!
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> I"m going to go back to ye old faithful SJW and maybe some rhodiola.Do you know those are safe? Rhetorical. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
> Kind regards
>
> MeriBack at ya,
Lar
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