An In-Depth Discussion On Health, Being Healthy And People’s Mindsets

Point no. 3 — the scales are heavily tipped against good health!

Moderation? Let me tell you the truth — there is nothing moderate about our modern day lifestyle anymore. Our world today is scarily toxic.

Every day, every waking and sleeping minute, we are bombarded with all sorts of toxins, from the air we breathe, the foods we consume, the water and beverages we drink, to the cleaning agents we use, all the mind-churning media and entertainment, and all the stress, negative attitudes and depressing emotions we carry around. We have already allowed things to move towards the NEGATIVE EXTREME. The bad guys are already winning. We need to cut them down and then start stocking up on the good guys.

Let us not kid ourselves. Are you doing the harmful things in moderation too?

• When you go to a party or out socializing, how much booze do you consume without thinking twice, without realizing that your overworked liver has become so intoxicated that you actually lose consciousness, and have a bad hangover for the next 24 hours?

• Perhaps you party all night, but do not think it is excessive.

• When you are sitting on a couch in front of a TV, perhaps you eat several packets of potato chips, as well as a mixture of other junk food, and you don’t get up from your butt to move around for maybe 5 hours, and that’s alright.

• Perhaps when you are at a fast food restaurant having a long chat with an old friend, or when you are in a hurry, you grab a few burgers and several cups of Coke, without thinking of how nutritionally deficient these foods are, not to mention how fattening and harmful they can be.

• When you are slicing that huge and delicious piece of steak, perhaps you aren’t thinking about your cholesterol, your heart, your arteries, your kidneys and your liver.

• When you are up late working hard and being all stressed out, and you develop a bad headache, perhaps you pop some aspirin, think everything is now alright, and continue working till dawn, without thinking that your poor body needs a rest, and that you have just taken maybe 1/4 or 1/8 of a fatal dose of drugs.

• When you go to a medical doctor and he gives you many packs of pills and capsules in various colors, shapes and sizes, drugs which are toxic to your liver and do crazy things to your health and metabolism, perhaps you obediently swallow those little poisons without considering what they are doing to your body.

• When you are waiting for the bus or for a friend, or when you are feeling stressed or unhappy, perhaps you smoke many sticks of cigarettes at a go, without thinking that a thousand over chemical poisons in those sticks aren’t moderate at all.

• When you cover your skin with sunscreen or perfume or moisturizer or soap, wash your hair with shampoo and brush your teeth using toothpaste, you do not realize that your skin absorbs stuffs, and that these agents you use are filled with hundreds of harmful chemicals, many of which are carcinogenic.

• Perhaps you get so relaxed on your couch or in your air-conditioned room, that a little movement and walking, a little exercise becomes too uncomfortable.

• Perhaps you could hate someone, be very angry at someone, or be jealous of someone, and it never crosses your mind that the only person you are killing is yourself.

• This list goes on…

Now, perhaps you did all that – most of us do – without thinking twice, without thinking it was too drastic or an overdose, without sparing a thought for side effects and the long-term damage you are doing to your health and body.

No, these things are really okay; they are “normal”, and not excessive or harmful at all. When it comes to pasta, fries, chips, cigarettes, beer, meat, sodas, chemical soaps, detergents and perfumes, anger and hatred, sugar, preservatives and pesticides in food, etc, the word “moderation” doesn’t come to mind at all.

After all, almost everyone does it. Right?

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