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I just happen to notice this news link on my email home page where the Number of diabetic Americans could triple by 2050 (AP) . So I got to thinking, what is causing this? Though I am not an expert on it but it seems like I have heard that a lot of it is due to the high amounts of sugar Americans consume.
Now I get to thinking. I wonder if there may be some environmental and / or substances that could be triggering FM / CFS. Lets just take for instance chlorinated water, air pollution, steroids and antibiotics in the meat we eat and chemical preservatives in food we eat. There are myriads of chemicals now that we are and have been exposed to that someone 60 years ago would not have had to given any thought to it because it didnt exist. To list all of the possible modern causes that we face, that a person who lived over a hundred years ago would have not had to face, would take several pages to list.
I am just expressing a thought here folks and your thoughts are welcome. I dont know, it just make me wonder.
Now I get to thinking. I wonder if there may be some environmental and / or substances that could be triggering FM / CFS. Lets just take for instance chlorinated water, air pollution, steroids and antibiotics in the meat we eat and chemical preservatives in food we eat. There are myriads of chemicals now that we are and have been exposed to that someone 60 years ago would not have had to given any thought to it because it didnt exist. To list all of the possible modern causes that we face, that a person who lived over a hundred years ago would have not had to face, would take several pages to list.
I am just expressing a thought here folks and your thoughts are welcome. I dont know, it just make me wonder.
Is it environmental or chemical or both? The processed food we eat or the additives, or acid rain that falls on us that has all but killed the fish in the Adirondacks.
What poses the greatest threat the food we eat and drink, the air we breath, or the drugs we take?
As far as the sugar I am all for the fat tax on soda, store baked goods, even my belove chocolate...we eat far two much processed food and nedto get back to you know it the land!
Thanks for the rant, I enjoyed and I could have should had gone for more!
Hug all
Sue Bee
And why are all our kids having problems, ADD/ADHD Autisum, anxity/panic attacks etc?
My daughter was suspended the first day of 10th grade for having a panic attack, and because we did not have it in her charts she got in trouble.
Boy did that school fear me... for 6 years I fought to get what was needed for them and won every battle.
So with that said, do we stay under our couvers and never get out of bed?
Sweet Dreams HUGS
Sue bee
I have avoided flouride (water, toothpaste, meds), processed and packaged foods, etc. for a while. Can't say there has been any noticable differenct. Maybe the damage is already done.
All I am suggesting here folks is that some people maybe far more susceptible to the things we are and were subjected to for the last 50 or so years to due to their individual genetic makeup. Believe it or not I had a friend who was allergic to sweet potatoes. Sounds unbelievable doesnt it? As a young boy he was over at another family members house. He told them that he was allergic to sweet potatoes. Well living here in the south sweet potatoes are a way of life. They said to him, Naw, there aint anybody allergic to sweet potatoes! So they fed him sweet potatoes and he ate them. Well after a hospital visit, they believed him then.