Using Health Foods : More Isn't Always Better
Using health foods in your diet is a really good idea. But how much should you use? More isn't always better.
At least you can't have too much water can you? Water means pure water. Fluoride toxic waste has probably been dumped into your water supply. They argue that if you drink the normal five or six cups of water each day you won't be poisoned. But what if you are a child, drinking all that fluoride, or an adult drinking twelve eight-ounce glasses of water loaded with this toxic waste?
The solution isn't even to use distilled water. That's fine if you are eating a good diet. Too much water will wash away some of your minerals, but if you eat a good diet you can afford to lose some nutrients. What happens if you're not getting enough nutrients?
OK, you've heard about the new miracle trace element, Selenium. It protects you from many problems including cancer. So should you eat enormous quantities? No. Selenium has a very narrow safe limit.
Thirty years ago there were warnings that typists working beside a photocopier could get Selenium poisoning by breathing the fumes. Yes, that is the sort of danger level we are talking about. Three Brazil nuts per day should give you all the Selenium you need, and they taste good too.
At least you can eat all the tomatoes you like. Well, they are in the same family as the deadly nightshade, but I dried a bucketful of tomatoes and powdered them, and put half the powder into a stew which I ate over a few days. That would have been quite a few tomatoes, and they didn't harm me. Perhaps if I ate that amount each day I would run into trouble.
Vitamin A must be in your diet. Some Polar explorers died of vitamin A poisoning as a result of eating polar bear livers every day. Fortunately the precursor of vitamin A (carotene) seems safe to eat in any quantities - if you don't mind turning yellow.
Be suspicious of the drug manufacturers when they warn you about excessive amounts of a life-saving herb. They managed to get comfrey banned with these tactics. They injected comfrey concentrate into the stomach cavity of baby rats, which all died as a result. Somebody worked out that to get the same effect in a human you would have to eat fifty thousand comfrey leaves each day, and the leaves are about eighteen inches long by four inches wide. Now that really would be an example of using health foods to excess! I often ate two leaves per day, but fifty thousand...!
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