THE LOWDOWN ON NUTRITIONThe results of extensive research are in and they are absolutely conclusive.
A light hearted look at nutritionNovember 7, 2003Terry Hopkin-Sundby
Via AgBioView at www.agbioworld.org
After so many heavy discussions on the pros and cons of GM or
Organic food or regular farming, here's the absolute truth ladies and gents..
For those of you who watch what you eat, here's the final word on nutrition and health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting medical studies:
1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans, Australians, British, or Canadians.2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans, Australians, British, or Canadians.3. The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans, Australians, British, or Canadians.4. The Italians drink large amounts of red wine and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans, Australians, British, or Canadians.5. The Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans, Australians, British, or Canadians.6. Ukrainians drink a lot of vodka, eat a lot of perogies, cabbage rolls and suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans, Australians, British, or Canadians.
CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel ;0)
The Great Distilled vs. Mineral Water Controversy
I've been thinking this matter over. I think I was too extreme in contending that only distilled water should be drunk. This was a reaction to my deeply resenting the many poisons that have been put in our water, to wit: F, Cl...etc. as well as the many pollutants that are being dumped in it and what the water picks up from pipes (the pipes in Tzfat are old are still made partially of lead).
Our ancestors drank a combination of water that came from springs as well as rain water, which they collected in barrels and wells. Rain water is distilled, of course, but it is not nearly as "pure" as artificially distilled water and should not be.
A mikveh tahara that humans create must be a combination of rain water and spring. From this I would learn that both are needed to purify on the physical level as well.
I have concluded, then, that if we are to live in our natural state we should be drinking a combination of distilled water within which many compounds are dissolved and mixed by the time it got to us as well as spring water, which is, quite naturally, part rain water too.
I have concluded that we should shoot for a balance of drinking both insofar as we are able to.
I do not think that drinking distilled water should be reserved only for times of extreme need for detoxification. We are in a contstant need of detoxification, but a balance should be struck.
Let us hope that we are not so alienated from our bodies that we cannot hear when our body calls for the one or the other or both.
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
