Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your bo dy. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I once knew some folks who were into their particular liver cleanse, during which they fasted a short bit, then drank down a combination of lemon juice, olive oil, and Colosan (a natural colon cleanser). This would supposedly clean out years of accumulated gunk in your liver, which would appear magically in their toilet as green-colored globules of gick, after which all who tried this cleansing routine raved about how much better and more energetic they felt. They swore by this routine, and recommended it to others. Turns out the green-colored globules of gick are just what happens to olive oil when you mix it with lemon juice and ingest it. They were cleansing themselves of exactly the thing they had ingested a few hours earlier. :-) In a similar vein the Guardian's Bad Science columnist Ben Goldacre once tested a lot of popular, and expensive, detox products. He did it by having all his usual bodily excressences analysed both before and after taking many of these supposedly cleansing substances, and he found there wasn't anything there that wasn't there before. You'd think there would be something to show for all the expensive rituals. He ruined many a promising new age health experts career by hounding them with the results of his data. Dr Gillian McKeith doesn't call herself a doctor any more because of him. This whole conversation is starting to make me feel good about continuing my chocolate and mince pie consumption well into the new year. Oh yes. From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? I used to know an medical doctor who also was a TM'er. He was a pathologist and said that in doing autopsies on several hundred people over the years he had yet to see any of the alleged encrusted crud in colons. He said it just doesn't exist. All the crud that comes out from cleansing diets is the clay etc people are eating and drinking to clean themselves out. This was a guy who had also taken the TM ayurveda training in pulse diagnoses. From: Share Long sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 7:27 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? Thanks, Eustace, fascinating article. I prefer a safe and gentle route for all this which consists of drinking plenty of water. Though years ago I read that when John Wayne died they discovered (gross alert) I think it was 27 pounds of encrusted crud in his colon! From: eustace10679 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 3:54 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? There’s no such thing as ‘detoxing’. In medical terms, it’s a nonsense. Diet and exercise is the only way to get healthy. But which of the latest fad regimes can really make a difference? We look at the facts Friday 5 December 2014 04.00 EST Whether it’s cucumbers splashing into water or models sitting smugly next to a pile of vegetables, it’s tough not to be sucked in by the detox industry. The idea that you can wash away your calorific sins is the perfect antidote to our fast-food lifestyles and alcohol-lubricated social lives. But before you dust off that juicer or take the first tentative steps towards a colonic irrigation clinic, there’s something you should know: detoxing – the idea that you can flush your system of impurities and leave your organs squeaky clean and raring to go – is a scam. It’s a pseudo-medical concept designed to sell you things. “Let’s be clear,” says Edzard Ernst, emeritus professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University, “there are two types of detox: one is respectable and the other isn’t.” The respectable one, he says, is the medical treatment of people with life-threatening drug addictions. “The other is the word being hijacked by entrepreneurs, quacks and charlatans to sell a bogus treatment that allegedly detoxifies your body of toxins you’re supposed to have accumulated.” If toxins did build up in a way your body couldn’t excrete, he says, you’d likely be dead or in need of serious medical intervention. “The healthy body has kidneys, a liver, skin, even lungs that are detoxifying as we speak,” he says. “There is no known way – certainly not through detox treatments – to make something that works perfectly well in a healthy body work better.” Much of the sales patter revolves around “toxins”: poisonous substances that you ingest or inhale. But it’s not clear exactly
Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your bo dy. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy?
What kind-a doctor was she before? From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 8:07 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your bo dy. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I once knew some folks who were into their particular liver cleanse, during which they fasted a short bit, then drank down a combination of lemon juice, olive oil, and Colosan (a natural colon cleanser). This would supposedly clean out years of accumulated gunk in your liver, which would appear magically in their toilet as green-colored globules of gick, after which all who tried this cleansing routine raved about how much better and more energetic they felt. They swore by this routine, and recommended it to others. Turns out the green-colored globules of gick are just what happens to olive oil when you mix it with lemon juice and ingest it. They were cleansing themselves of exactly the thing they had ingested a few hours earlier. :-) In a similar vein the Guardian's Bad Science columnist Ben Goldacre once tested a lot of popular, and expensive, detox products. He did it by having all his usual bodily excressences analysed both before and after taking many of these supposedly cleansing substances, and he found there wasn't anything there that wasn't there before. You'd think there would be something to show for all the expensive rituals. He ruined many a promising new age health experts career by hounding them with the results of his data. Dr Gillian McKeith doesn't call herself a doctor any more because of him. This whole conversation is starting to make me feel good about continuing my chocolate and mince pie consumption well into the new year. Oh yes. From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? I used to know an medical doctor who also was a TM'er. He was a pathologist and said that in doing autopsies on several hundred people over the years he had yet to see any of the alleged encrusted crud in colons. He said it just doesn't exist. All the crud that comes out from cleansing diets is the clay etc people are eating and drinking to clean themselves out. This was a guy who had also taken the TM ayurveda training in pulse diagnoses. From: Share Long sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 7:27 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? Thanks, Eustace, fascinating article. I prefer a safe and gentle route for all this which consists of drinking plenty of water. Though years ago I read that when John Wayne died they discovered (gross alert) I think it was 27 pounds of encrusted crud in his colon! From: eustace10679 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 3:54 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? There’s no such thing as ‘detoxing’. In medical terms, it’s a nonsense. Diet and exercise is the only way to get healthy. But which of the latest fad regimes can really make a difference? We look at the facts Friday 5 December 2014 04.00 EST Whether it’s cucumbers splashing into water or models sitting smugly next to a pile of vegetables, it’s tough not to be sucked in by the detox industry. The idea that you can wash away your calorific sins is the perfect antidote to our fast-food lifestyles and alcohol-lubricated social lives. But before you dust off that juicer or take the first tentative steps towards a colonic irrigation clinic, there’s something you should know: detoxing – the idea that you can flush your system of impurities and leave your organs squeaky clean and raring to go – is a scam. It’s a pseudo-medical concept designed to sell you things. “Let’s be clear,” says Edzard Ernst, emeritus professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University, “there are two types of detox: one is respectable and the other isn’t.” The respectable one, he says, is the medical treatment of people with life-threatening drug addictions. “The other is the word being hijacked by entrepreneurs, quacks and charlatans to sell a bogus treatment that allegedly detoxifies your body of toxins you’re supposed to have accumulated.” If toxins did build up in a way your body couldn’t excrete, he says, you’d likely be dead or in need of serious medical intervention. “The healthy body has kidneys, a liver, skin, even lungs that are detoxifying as we speak,” he says. “There is no known way – certainly not through detox
Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your bo dy. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy?
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I once knew some folks who were into their particular liver cleanse, during which they fasted a short bit, then drank down a combination of lemon juice, olive oil, and Colosan (a natural colon cleanser). This would supposedly clean out years of accumulated gunk in your liver, which would appear magically in their toilet as green-colored globules of gick, after which all who tried this cleansing routine raved about how much better and more energetic they felt. They swore by this routine, and recommended it to others. Turns out the green-colored globules of gick are just what happens to olive oil when you mix it with lemon juice and ingest it. They were cleansing themselves of exactly the thing they had ingested a few hours earlier. :-) In a similar vein the Guardian's Bad Science columnist Ben Goldacre once tested a lot of popular, and expensive, detox products. He did it by having all his usual bodily excressences analysed both before and after taking many of these supposedly cleansing substances, and he found there wasn't anything there that wasn't there before. You'd think there would be something to show for all the expensive rituals. He ruined many a promising new age health experts career by hounding them with the results of his data. Dr Gillian McKeith doesn't call herself a doctor any more because of him. This whole conversation is starting to make me feel good about continuing my chocolate and mince pie consumption well into the new year. Oh yes. Tell me about it. I live with a family of good cooks (yes, including myself), so we eat well. fairly healthily, and omnivorally :-). On top of eating all that meat stuff, I have a glass of wine with every dinner and a couple of pints o'beer 3-4 times a week at my local pub. Lots of good desserts. My exercise program consists mainly of walking my dog and walking/riding my bike all around Leiden. Other than to enjoy what I'm eating, I pay no attention whatsoever to the supposed good-for-me-ness or not-good-for-me-ness of it, and never have, my whole life. So imagine my surprise when I had to find a new huisarts (General Practitioner) recently and she told me that my blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol levels are spot-on normal, and that all indications are that I'm as healthy as a horse. Go figure. In a way it's good that the people who moved on to The_Peak did so, because otherwise when they heard this they'd be muttering under their breath about how karma is even more indeterminable than they thought, and that the universe really, really isn't fair. :-) From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? I used to know an medical doctor who also was a TM'er. He was a pathologist and said that in doing autopsies on several hundred people over the years he had yet to see any of the alleged encrusted crud in colons. He said it just doesn't exist. All the crud that comes out from cleansing diets is the clay etc people are eating and drinking to clean themselves out. This was a guy who had also taken the TM ayurveda training in pulse diagnoses. From: Share Long sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 7:27 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? Thanks, Eustace, fascinating article. I prefer a safe and gentle route for all this which consists of drinking plenty of water. Though years ago I read that when John Wayne died they discovered (gross alert) I think it was 27 pounds of encrusted crud in his colon! From: eustace10679 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 3:54 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? There’s no such thing as ‘detoxing’. In medical terms, it’s a nonsense. Diet and exercise is the only way to get healthy. But which of the latest fad regimes can really make a difference? We look at the facts Friday 5 December 2014 04.00 EST Whether it’s cucumbers splashing into water or models sitting smugly next to a pile of vegetables, it’s tough not to be sucked in by the detox industry. The idea that you can wash away your calorific sins is the perfect antidote to our fast-food lifestyles and alcohol-lubricated social lives. But before you dust off that juicer or take the first tentative steps towards a colonic irrigation clinic, there’s something you should know: detoxing – the idea that you can flush your system of impurities and leave your organs
Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your bo dy. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy?
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Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your bo dy. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : What kind-a doctor was she before? She was a fake website doctor, just fill in a questionaire on herbal myths, pay a few bucks and your diploma is in the post. She had a thriving business selling all sorts of wonder foods in powdered form to add to your muesli, she still does actually just without the title to bamboozle the unwary, From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 8:07 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your bo dy. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I once knew some folks who were into their particular liver cleanse, during which they fasted a short bit, then drank down a combination of lemon juice, olive oil, and Colosan (a natural colon cleanser). This would supposedly clean out years of accumulated gunk in your liver, which would appear magically in their toilet as green-colored globules of gick, after which all who tried this cleansing routine raved about how much better and more energetic they felt. They swore by this routine, and recommended it to others. Turns out the green-colored globules of gick are just what happens to olive oil when you mix it with lemon juice and ingest it. They were cleansing themselves of exactly the thing they had ingested a few hours earlier. :-) In a similar vein the Guardian's Bad Science columnist Ben Goldacre once tested a lot of popular, and expensive, detox products. He did it by having all his usual bodily excressences analysed both before and after taking many of these supposedly cleansing substances, and he found there wasn't anything there that wasn't there before. You'd think there would be something to show for all the expensive rituals. He ruined many a promising new age health experts career by hounding them with the results of his data. Dr Gillian McKeith doesn't call herself a doctor any more because of him. This whole conversation is starting to make me feel good about continuing my chocolate and mince pie consumption well into the new year. Oh yes. From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? I used to know an medical doctor who also was a TM'er. He was a pathologist and said that in doing autopsies on several hundred people over the years he had yet to see any of the alleged encrusted crud in colons. He said it just doesn't exist. All the crud that comes out from cleansing diets is the clay etc people are eating and drinking to clean themselves out. This was a guy who had also taken the TM ayurveda training in pulse diagnoses. From: Share Long sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 7:27 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? Thanks, Eustace, fascinating article. I prefer a safe and gentle route for all this which consists of drinking plenty of water. Though years ago I read that when John Wayne died they discovered (gross alert) I think it was 27 pounds of encrusted crud in his colon! From: eustace10679 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 3:54 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? There’s no such thing as ‘detoxing’. In medical terms, it’s a nonsense. Diet and exercise is the only way to get healthy. But which of the latest fad regimes can really make a difference? We look at the facts Friday 5 December 2014 04.00 EST Whether it’s cucumbers splashing into water or models sitting smugly next to a pile of vegetables, it’s tough not to be sucked in by the detox industry. The idea that you can wash away your calorific sins is the perfect antidote to our fast-food lifestyles and alcohol-lubricated social lives. But before you dust off that juicer or take the first tentative steps towards a colonic irrigation clinic, there’s something you should know: detoxing – the idea that you can flush your system of impurities and leave your organs squeaky clean and raring to go – is a scam. It’s a pseudo-medical concept designed to sell you things. “Let’s be clear,” says Edzard Ernst, emeritus professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University, “there are two types of detox: one is respectable and the other isn’t.” The respectable one, he says, is the medical treatment of people with life-threatening drug addictions. “The other is the word being hijacked by entrepreneurs, quacks
Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your bo dy. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy?
On 12/07/2014 05:07 AM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : */I once knew some folks who were into their particular liver cleanse, during which they fasted a short bit, then drank down a combination of lemon juice, olive oil, and Colosan (a natural colon cleanser). This would supposedly clean out years of accumulated gunk in your liver, which would appear magically in their toilet as green-colored globules of gick, after which all who tried this cleansing routine raved about how much better and more energetic they felt. They swore by this routine, and recommended it to others. /* */ /* */Turns out the green-colored globules of gick are just what happens to olive oil when you mix it with lemon juice and ingest it. They were cleansing themselves of exactly the thing they had ingested a few hours earlier. :-) /* */ /* In a similar vein the Guardian's Bad Science columnist Ben Goldacre once tested a lot of popular, and expensive, detox products. He did it by having all his usual bodily excressences analysed both before and after taking many of these supposedly cleansing substances, and he found there wasn't anything there that wasn't there before. You'd think there would be something to show for all the expensive rituals. He ruined many a promising new age health experts career by hounding them with the results of his data. Dr Gillian McKeith doesn't call herself a doctor any more because of him. This whole conversation is starting to make me feel good about continuing my chocolate and mince pie consumption well into the new year. Oh yes. And I guess you don't have to worry then about drinking too much Guinness at the local pub. :-D
Re: [FairfieldLife] You can’t detox your bo dy. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy?
On 12/7/2014 7:23 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */Tell me about it. I live with a family of good cooks (yes, including myself), so we eat well. fairly healthily, and omnivorally :-). On top of eating all that meat stuff, I have a glass of wine with every dinner and a couple of pints o'beer 3-4 times a week at my local pub. Lots of good desserts. My exercise program consists mainly of walking my dog and walking/riding my bike all around Leiden. Other than to enjoy what I'm eating, I pay no attention whatsoever to the supposed good-for-me-ness or not-good-for-me-ness of it, and never have, my whole life. /* / This pretty much shoots down the anti-GMO theories of the other Barry and MJ. Thanks for posting this report, Barry. Now I think I'll just eat, drink and be merry. //* */ */ /* */So imagine my surprise when I had to find a new huisarts (General Practitioner) recently and she told me that my blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol levels are spot-on normal, and that all indications are that I'm as healthy as a horse. Go figure. In a way it's good that the people who moved on to The_Peak did so, because otherwise when they heard this they'd be muttering under their breath about how karma is even more indeterminable than they thought, and that the universe really, really isn't fair. :-)/*
