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Friday, February 10, 2012
Natural Cure
Monday, February 06, 2012
Ten Worst Foods for Prostate Health
It’s not enough to know the best foods you should eat to promote prostate health, you should also know which foods are the worst so you can avoid them. Some of the foods on this list may surprise you, but all of them are best to cross off your menu if you want to support prostate health.
1. Red and Processed Meat
APRIL 8, 2011 BY
Eating a lot of red and processed meats is unhealthy for several reasons, one of which is it may increase your risk of prostate cancer. Studies show that men who ate the most red meat were 12 percent more likely to develop prostate cancer and 33 percent more likely to have advanced cancer than those who ate the least amount of red meat.
2. Nonorganic Meat*
Nonorganic meat encompasses the majority of the meat available on the market, including beef, pork, lamb, veal, and poultry raised using conventional methods that involve the use of hormones, antibiotics, and steroids, as well as animals being fed food they were not meant to eat. Cattle, for example, evolved to eat grass, but they are fed corn, soybeans, and other grains because it fattens them up faster for slaughter. When you do include meat in your diet, make it organic so you can avoid the additives that can have a negative impact on both prostate and overall health.
3. Calcium and Dairy Foods*
Dairy foods are the most common source of calcium in the United States, and this is a source of concern for two reasons. One, the American Cancer Society notes there is evidence that high intake of calcium, mostly through supplements and dairy foods, has been linked with a greater risk of prostate cancer, especially aggressive cancer. Two, many dairy foods are high in fat and cholesterol, and may also contain hormones, all of which can have a negative impact on prostate health. Read more about calcium and dairy foods
4. Canned Tomatoes and Tomato Products*
Although it is true tomatoes and tomato products support and promote prostate health, especially because of their highlycopene content, you should avoid tomato foods packaged in cans. The resin linings of tin cans contain bisphenol-A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen that can leach into the tomatoes because they are acidic. BPA is associated with an increased risk of cancer and other health problems. Read more on BPA and Cancer
5. Microwave Popcorn*
Popcorn is a good source of fiber, but avoid microwave popcorn. The lining of the bags in which microwave popcorn is popped contains chemicals, including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) that may be associated with infertility in humans. The chemicals have also been linked to cancer in lab animals. Because PFOA accumulates in the body, scientists worry that the chemical may reach a cancer-causing level in people who are exposed to it for too long. The makers of PFOA have promised to stop producing the chemical by 2015.
6. Nonorganic Potatoes*
Potatoes can be a very good nonfat, high-fiber food choice, but beware: they are exposed to several doses of poisons. Potatoes absorb herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides from the soil, they are treated with fungicides while they are growing, the vines are sprayed with herbicides before harvest, and then once the potatoes are dug up, they are treated again to prevent them from sprouting. You cannot wash away the chemicals that have been absorbed into the flesh of the potato. The only safe solution is to buy organic potatoes. More on pesticide contamination in food
7. French Fries and Potato Chips*
French fries and potato chips are two popular foods in the United States, and also among the most unhealthy. One reason is that deep fried potatoes and potato chips are laden with saturated fat and salt. Two, potatoes contain an amino acid called asparagine, which when heated to more than 248 degrees Fahrenheit (as in frying and baking) can form acrylamide, a substance determined to be a “probable human carcinogen” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, based on studies in lab animals. (Fuhr 2006) French fries and potato chips are not the only foods that contain acrylamide, but they are the most common and have high levels. Baked goods, especially doughnuts, also have relatively high levels of acrylamide. More on acrylamide
8. Artificial Sweeteners*
Artificial sweeteners—aspartame, cyclamate, neotame, saccharin, or sucralose—can be found in a wide variety of processed foods, many of which are promoted as diet and/or diabetic foods. These artificial sweeteners have been associated with cancer in animals and can cause allergic reactions in some people. Read more on artificial sweeteners
9. Farmed Salmon*
Farmed salmon are crammed into pens, fed soy and fishmeal (which is high in contaminants), dosed with antibiotics, and colored with artificial dyes to make them pink. The result is fish that are lower in vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids, and higher in contaminants (e.g., PCBs, brominated flame retardants, dioxin, DDT) than wild salmon. Farmed salmon is not the only farmed fish that should be avoided, because the way they are raised is similar for other types of fish as well.
10. Sugar*
Sugar may taste good, but that’s where the “good” part ends. Along with the empty calories sugar contributes to the diet, it is also believed by many experts to fuel cancer cell growth, among them Patrick Quillin, PhD, RD, former vice president of Nutrition for Cancer Treatment Centers of America. In 2009, scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah discovered part of the process by which cancer cells utilize more sugar (glucose) than normal cells. (Kaadige 2009) If you want something sweet, choose fruit, nature’s natural sugar. Read more about sugar and cancer
Sunday, February 05, 2012
Jean-Paul Sartre's "Being and Nothingness": A Summary First of all, fuck Kant.
Why is his shit so needlessly complicated? A whole world we can't talk about or know anything about? Then how the fuck can he possibly talk about it? What if the world is just exactly the way we see it? Why complicate things even further? Don't tell me I can't get to the chairness of a chair - it's a pretty simply concept, chairness - it's just being a chair. Legs, maybe a cushion, and you sit in it. Can't stop being a chair. Was that so hard?
Look - there are two ways to exist in this world. Chairs just are the way they are, they have being-in-itself. There's nothing special about them. But bros? Oh man, bros are a whole different story. There's no intrinsic broness we all have; we get to make our own shit. Every bro is like a completely blank canvas, devoid of any color, and he gets to paint himself however the fuck he wants. Seriously, this blankness, this void, isn't just any ordinary property; it cuts to the very meaning of what it means to be a bro - a bro exists with being-for-itself, with an incompleteness that he must take care of himself.
Maybe you're thinking, "but Sartre - don't we have a clear description too? Walks around on two legs, usually between five-six and six-eight, hair up top and all that jazz?" Bro, I get it. Nothingness is scary at first. So much room to work, and so little guidance; the thought of nothingness horrifies us. So if you want to take the infinite potential that is that blank canvas and fill it with a physical description of yourself, then fucking be my guest. But you still have to do the work; it's not like you're achieving the certainty of being a chair that way. You're just refusing to face uncertainty; that doesn't make it go away. So my advice to you is man the fuck up, grab some colors, face the future boldly, and just fucking paint.
Don't paint a simple physical description of yourself; don't paint your job, or your stuff. You'll never have the safety of being-in-itself; you're wasting your time trying. Use your imagination; there are other voids with limitless potential. You can imagine what isn't, and that tells you what you are, and what you want to be; make it happen. Who cares if you fuck up here or there? Paint over it. Humanity isn't an 8x10 you get one shot at; nothingness isn't a cup you get to fill once. As time goes on, you'll see more possibilities, acquire new colors, learn new brushstrokes. But you don't get any of that if you don't start painting now. There's a good chance you'll never get it perfect. Whatever, bro. But you can know perfection through its absence; when you look at yourself and say, "almost! What if I just... that's closer, even!" That's how you can discover the truth of beauty - the drive to create is enough.
Of course, while you're out there doing work, you're going to run into other painters, other canvases; don't panic. Why do people always panic? All of a sudden bros act like they're not supposed to be painting, like they're going to get in trouble or something, as if he's supposed to go back to being a canvas when other painters around - what if he's better than me? What if he thinks what I've made myself is dumb? So bros stop painting and let other bros start painting on them, over everything they've created. And do you think other people give a shit about what you come out as? If you let them paint your canvas for you, they'll slap on whatever is convenient for them, and suddenly you're back to being your job, your stuff, how you look; if you let others define you, they will define you out of existence. So don't let them! But more importantly, don't be that asshole.
Again, this shit is easier said than done. Acknowledging the existential void, the vast emptiness of the self, is no small task; for some reason when people hear "You are nothing!" They respond with fear, not hope. We all want to be something, but we don't want to do the work; the temptation to let others do it, or to refuse to do it yourself, is great. Except that no one can actualize your vision better than you, so don't let them.
You know that couple that fucking hates each other, but they can't walk away? I know you know at least one. We all do. What do you think is going on there? They've both given themselves up to the other; he lets her paint his canvas (heh) and vice versa. But of course, they both fucking hate what the other is painting, since they each have a better sense of what they want to be, so they've given up their sense of self and now they resent the other for sucking. She's all like "I wouldn't put blue there, you asshole!" and he's all like, "bitch, that shouldn't be a circle!" but they've forgotten how to paint for themselves, how to face the world, the void, alone. That is the risk you run if you can't face the void alone; that is what you'll become. Who wants that?
We think we want peace and simplicity, which is why we want the safety of being-in-itself, why we tend to paint along the same lines, making small changes and slow improvements. But secretly, we fucking hate peace. We can imagine such greatness, and sometimes we just straight-up get restless. You're not beholden to anyone! If you're suddenly unhappy with what you are, why stay that way? We must not be afraid to start anew, to overthrow what we once were to make what we want; we must never be afraid to change. After all, the goddamn future is coming whether you like it or not; sorry, bro, but the void really is empty; stop pretending otherwise and get to work.
Friday, February 03, 2012
To my "old" friends
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Regardless How Far The Journey Is OR How Capable We Are, We Do Our Best To Reach Our Goal. This Is Perseverance At Its Best ...—Anonymous