Transform your health

SnakePlissken said:
You have to bathe in virgins' blood to beat death.

DhD_No_Pants said:
I drank too much apple juice and gave myself the trots once.

CheshireCat said:

I would do it in a heart beat.

CheshireCat said:

bark bark

mingol said:

gobble gobble.

CheshireCat said:

gobble gobble.

CheshireCat said:

gobble gobble.

vanillaKnight said:
I was expecting a Transformer called Health.

Who transforms out of a Hybird vehicle!

coyotemike said:
I like cheese.

SuperCrunch said:

gobble gobble.

MisterLinguist said:

Oh my God! No way! I like cheese, too!

Phonetix said:
Fruit juices are fine, but anyone who reckons they can make any kind of veg juice taste ok is talking... err... shit, literally.

There are people who reckon they've sent cancer into remisiion from eating purely raw and juicing a percentage of their raw foods every day.
So yeah, I juice for the health benefits. Actually I juice every day, in fact I might get a t-shirt made with that on and see how far down the street I can make it before being buried under euphemism repurcussion. Just put that in the diary...

mr_wordsmith said:
It's not the juice, people, it's the living enzymes that you consume via the juice...
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According to William T. Jarvis, a retired professor of public health at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine and founder of the national Council against Health Fraud (www.ncahf.org), this is all baloney: "Enzymes are complex protein molecules produced by living organisms exclusively for their own use in promoting chemical reactions. Orally ingested enzymes are digested in the stomach and have no enzymatic activity in the eater."

mr_wordsmith said:
I'm a liberal arts major!

MisterSatan said:

It's all about subtext, people. I keep telling you this.

Also, this thread is nothing but a great big bucket of tushy juice.

MisterSatan said:

Also, this thread is nothing but a great big bucket of tushy juice.

mr_wordsmith said:
It's not the juice, people, it's the living enzymes that you consume via the juice; it's the so-very-little amount of work your system has to accomplish in order to digest said juice; it's about removing levels of abstraction from the sun and breaking down barriers to nutrient absorption; it's about treating your body like the bio-machine that it is and taking the responsibility of upkeep seriously. When you input a slurry of pure nutritional value your body reacts with higher functioning: thoughts come more quickly; energy lasts longer; less sleep is needed; mood is elevated and regulated; sensations are more acute. The body, which is the vehicle for our actions and the roadways for our thoughts, simply functions better on a raw (juice? sure) diet. This could most definitely change the world if more people did it. Imagine a population of people who haven't been dumbed- and slowed-down by a diet that takes more energy to process than it provides the body; a population where everyone is generally happy because their diet elevates their mood for them and prepares them to react more positively to negative situations; a population that can't help but think critically about the state of things because their hyper-active brains are incapable of not thinking critically. Sounds like a whole new brew to me.

SnakePlissken said:

So you're saying you don't want to give my Hawaiian Punch diet a try?

mr_wordsmith said:
It's not the juice, people, it's the living enzymes that you consume via the juice; it's the so-very-little amount of work your system has to accomplish in order to digest said juice; it's about removing levels of abstraction from the sun and breaking down barriers to nutrient absorption; it's about treating your body like the bio-machine that it is and taking the responsibility of upkeep seriously. When you input a slurry of pure nutritional value your body reacts with higher functioning: thoughts come more quickly; energy lasts longer; less sleep is needed; mood is elevated and regulated; sensations are more acute. The body, which is the vehicle for our actions and the roadways for our thoughts, simply functions better on a raw (juice? sure) diet. This could most definitely change the world if more people did it. Imagine a population of people who haven't been dumbed- and slowed-down by a diet that takes more energy to process than it provides the body; a population where everyone is generally happy because their diet elevates their mood for them and prepares them to react more positively to negative situations; a population that can't help but think critically about the state of things because their hyper-active brains are incapable of not thinking critically. Sounds like a whole new brew to me.

But y'all can stay committed to your cynicism. I can see it is not serving you from here, but hey, I'd never presume to tell you what you should do with your lives.

turin said:

good timing here, I'll quote directly from michael shermer's column in this very month's scientific american:

it makes sense that enzymes would be broken down in the stomach along with all other protein, but I didn't know that specifically before reading this month's skeptic. however I would think that anyone who has a decent grasp on what enzymes are and what they're for would seriously doubt the idea that having a surplus of enzymes made by some plant floating around in your system would do you a whole lot of good.

your other point, the idea that most people's diet takes more energy to digest than it provides the body, is... odd. if you take in less energy than you burn, you starve to death... which I'd have thought was extremely obvious. two facts to consider here-- 1: fat is the body's way of storing surplus energy for later, and 2: we are supposedly having an obesity epidemic in the western world right now. we are pounding our bodies with so much extra energy they can't even handle it. we are killing ourselves with energy.