Preparedness and your health.

[Mattemma]

Fracking is spreading in my local area and it will just be a matter of time before public and private water sources get polluted.Quite sad what people will do(to others) for money.

 

[Spifflove]

Moral health: I believe that it is impossible to maintain physical health over long periods of time without strong moral health. Moral strength prevents you from wasting time in time traps and keeps you in a productive lifestyle. How to get moral strength must necessarily not be discussed here. However seek and you will find. What we will discuss is the traps of an amoral lifestyle and how they affect your health. Here are some of the traps:

TV
Smart phones
Movies
The internet
Porn downloading
Most music
Video games
Glamour magazines [generic usage of term]
Strip clubs
Comic books and illustrated magazines [often times just porn dressed up as super heros]
Serial gaming [not talking about social events]
Gambling
The Wallstreet casino/cnbc addiction [Slot machine lights addiction]
Shrill O'rielly/Shrill Maher, etc overaddiction to news cycle
Spectator sports
Excessive texting
Facebook and Facebook games
Drugs of all sorts
Any other thing in excess [hobbies, other time sinks]

Here are the things that the above work together to prevent:

Family
Community
Health
Wealth

 

[wyoDreamer]

Fracking is spreading in my local area and it will just be a matter of time before public and private water sources get polluted.Quite sad what people will do(to others) for money.

Here is my opinion on the subject: Not all fracking results in polluted water supplies. There are alot of places that it is happening that everything has gone well and there is no pollution resulting. The biggest problem with fracking is irresponcible and/or untrained people doing the work. A majority of the pollution problems that I have heard of happen from spills or illicet dumping of the fracking chemicals on the surface. Disposal of this toxic mix is a problem that needs to be resolved before more fracking areas are polluted irreversably.

 

[GardenerGal]

Moral health: I believe that it is impossible to maintain physical health over long periods of time without strong moral health. Moral strength prevents you from wasting time in time traps and keeps you in a productive lifestyle. How to get moral strength must necessarily not be discussed here. However seek and you will find. What we will discuss is the traps of an amoral lifestyle and how they affect your health. Here are some of the traps:

TV
Smart phones
Movies
The internet
Porn downloading
Most music
Video games
Glamour magazines [generic usage of term]
Strip clubs
Comic books and illustrated magazines [often times just porn dressed up as super heros]
Serial gaming [not talking about social events]
Gambling
The Wallstreet casino/cnbc addiction [Slot machine lights addiction]
Shrill O'rielly/Shrill Maher, etc overaddiction to news cycle
Spectator sports
Excessive texting
Facebook and Facebook games
Drugs of all sorts
Any other thing in excess [hobbies, other time sinks]

Here are the things that the above work together to prevent:

Family
Community
Health
Wealth

We might as well add food, sleep, exercise and house-cleaning to the list of vices, if we're talking about the dangers of excess.

I understand and agree with your overall point, thought. An addiction to and excess of ANYTHING leads to a breakdown in ethical and physical health. However, those things are merely vehicles to some factor or factors (biological, developmental, etc.) within the individual which leads to their addiction and abuse; I don't believe that the above things themselves actually lead someone astray.

While I don't care for strip clubs, porn or recreational drugs, pretty much everything else on the list above can be harnessed in a positive way to enhance our lives and allow us to enhance others' lives too. But as you said, again, it's more about understanding that excess and addiction are the root issue, not the vehicles that enable them. We could do away with all of the things on the list, and human beings would find another outlet to express their drives..

 

[cws451]

what a awesome article These issues have been weighing on me quite a bit. I have always told my parents processed food is going to give us all cancer. In the past 2 months alone i have started raising meat rabbits,turkeys,and chickens. Also i am tilling my garden tommorrow and growing enough vegatables to fill the pantry with can food. Most people think im crazy but can we really rely on our jobs to provide for my family. At least when things become tough i will always have food and home grown food on top of it. I love working with the animals it really changes how u think about what u buy in the store. Keep up the good work

 

[attackrabbit]

A very good post @gardenergal and I would like to add its a good idea to get 20 minutes of full-skin sun exposure daily to improve happiness. It's free. Serious risk increase of skin cancer is related to serious sun burns, especially the type that causes blisters, not sun exposure per say. Aloe vera within 4 hours if you get any redness at all from sun exposure.

I'm sorry, but this is patently incorrect. Risk of skin cancer directly correlates to sun exposure, burn or no burn. A tan is an injury to the body, just as a burn is an injury to the body. Cumulative sun exposure not related to a burn increases your risk of skin cancer as the level of risk is liked to the level of damage to the skin. The damage accumulates with sun exposure, burns just create more damage in a brief period of time. Sun screen should be used daily. It does not in any way inhibit your body from creating vitamin D, and you do not need 20 minutes of outdoor sun exposure each day to avoid deficiency. It has been proven time and again that enough ambient sunlight enters through windows that even those who spend the vast majority of time indoors will get plenty of sun exposure. The ONLY place that it is a concern is in extreme northern regions where daylight is heavily restricted and winters are spent largely indoors with windows covered, and any outdoor exposure is rendered impossible by the wearing of extreme weather gear. Think northern reaches of Alaska where is it dark for the entire winter, and spring and fall require balaclavas, gloves, etc, not anywhere in the lower 48.

I have personally had a cancerous lesion removed from my forearm from years of fishing on open water in short sleeves. I've never had so much as a kiss of pink. I wear sunscreen religiously and have my entire life. I'm 34. I had the lesion removed when I was 30. My dentist's daughter died of skin cancer at 28, caused directly from laying out in her back yard for 20 minutes each day with no sunscreen, so she could be tan and look pretty.

So, I apologize if my post is a bit forceful, but this information is wrong and if someone takes it at face value, downright dangerous.

 

[attackrabbit]

We might as well add food, sleep, exercise and house-cleaning to the list of vices, if we're talking about the dangers of excess.

I understand and agree with your overall point, thought. An addiction to and excess of ANYTHING leads to a breakdown in ethical and physical health. However, those things are merely vehicles to some factor or factors (biological, developmental, etc.) within the individual which leads to their addiction and abuse; I don't believe that the above things themselves actually lead someone astray.

While I don't care for strip clubs, porn or recreational drugs, pretty much everything else on the list above can be harnessed in a positive way to enhance our lives and allow us to enhance others' lives too. But as you said, again, it's more about understanding that excess and addiction are the root issue, not the vehicles that enable them. We could do away with all of the things on the list, and human beings would find another outlet to express their drives..

Exactly. I have too many shoes. I spend too much money on shoes. I like shoes. Sometimes I even sit in my closet and just look at the shoes. Does that mean that shoes are inherently bad and that they should be banned or avoided altogether lest I fall into some horribly immoral state of being and die a horrible death? Of course not. It means I have a personal responsibility to ensure that I enjoy my shoes in a manner that is not impeding on other responsibilities or areas of my life.

And as to Spifflove's post listing all things he finds evil? The supposition that these things are bad for family, community, health and wealth is downright wrong. For one, many of the things on the list, like "most music", comic books, spectator sports, the internet, facebook, etc. are well known to be creative outlets, foster a sense of community, increase productivity for the accumulation of wealth, or reduce stress levels, leading to better health.

ANYTHING in excess can be pernicious, but demonizing activities that the vast majority of people enjoy regularly, with their families and friends, as the problem is focusing on a symptom and ignoring a problem, that problem being that some people have problems with escapism, and use certain avenues to their own detriment.

 

[Spifflove]

I'm sorry, but this is patently incorrect. Risk of skin cancer directly correlates to sun exposure, burn or no burn. A tan is an injury to the body, just as a burn is an injury to the body. Cumulative sun exposure not related to a burn increases your risk of skin cancer as the level of risk is liked to the level of damage to the skin. The damage accumulates with sun exposure, burns just create more damage in a brief period of time. Sun screen should be used daily. It does not in any way inhibit your body from creating vitamin D, and you do not need 20 minutes of outdoor sun exposure each day to avoid deficiency. It has been proven time and again that enough ambient sunlight enters through windows that even those who spend the vast majority of time indoors will get plenty of sun exposure. The ONLY place that it is a concern is in extreme northern regions where daylight is heavily restricted and winters are spent largely indoors with windows covered, and any outdoor exposure is rendered impossible by the wearing of extreme weather gear. Think northern reaches of Alaska where is it dark for the entire winter, and spring and fall require balaclavas, gloves, etc, not anywhere in the lower 48.

I have personally had a cancerous lesion removed from my forearm from years of fishing on open water in short sleeves. I've never had so much as a kiss of pink. I wear sunscreen religiously and have my entire life. I'm 34. I had the lesion removed when I was 30. My dentist's daughter died of skin cancer at 28, caused directly from laying out in her back yard for 20 minutes each day with no sunscreen, so she could be tan and look pretty.

So, I apologize if my post is a bit forceful, but this information is wrong and if someone takes it at face value, downright dangerous.

A chronic lack of sun exposure has been linked to fertility problems, several forms of cancer, general poor health, and vaying degrees of depression...most often sesonal affective disorder [SAD].
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...C6QB4v0h3gT7_3Oi6wRZNUw&bvm=bv.46751780,d.dmQ

But that's ok, there is a nice pill for you to take. What? you think happiness is free? Its going to cost you. Yeah you are also going to have to pay for water, and carbon emissions as you exhale. And food seeds? There is a patent on those so pay up! Oh and since biotech owns 20% of your genome you are going to have to pay them to reproduce copies of their patented material. You got that?

I suggest that if you are going to be in a high sun environment like the reflected surface of a lake for long periods that you cover all your exposed skin with loose fitting but substantial clothing, hats, boots and gloves. Heavy sunblock creams for the exposed areas especially the nose and ears, and neck.

Your dentist's doctor probably was genetically prone to melanomas, or she layed out for longer periods. By the way the point of sun exposure isn't to get brown but to boost happiness. [Of course do your own research and consult your doctor]

Sunscreen blocks vitamin D production. "Try skipping sunscreen 15 minutes a day."
http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/5-tips-healthier-life

 

[Spifflove]

Exactly. I have too many shoes. I spend too much money on shoes. I like shoes. Sometimes I even sit in my closet and just look at the shoes. Does that mean that shoes are inherently bad and that they should be banned or avoided altogether lest I fall into some horribly immoral state of being and die a horrible death? Of course not. It means I have a personal responsibility to ensure that I enjoy my shoes in a manner that is not impeding on other responsibilities or areas of my life.

And as to Spifflove's post listing all things he finds evil? The supposition that these things are bad for family, community, health and wealth is downright wrong. For one, many of the things on the list, like "most music", comic books, spectator sports, the internet, facebook, etc. are well known to be creative outlets, foster a sense of community, increase productivity for the accumulation of wealth, or reduce stress levels, leading to better health.

ANYTHING in excess can be pernicious, but demonizing activities that the vast majority of people enjoy regularly, with their families and friends, as the problem is focusing on a symptom and ignoring a problem, that problem being that some people have problems with escapism, and use certain avenues to their own detriment.

Wow you live up to your name. But of course reading it again you really agreed with me.

 

[attackrabbit]

A chronic lack of sun exposure has been linked to fertility problems, several forms of cancer, general poor health, and vaying degrees of depression...most often sesonal affective disorder [SAD].
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...C6QB4v0h3gT7_3Oi6wRZNUw&bvm=bv.46751780,d.dmQ

But that's ok, there is a nice pill for you to take. What? you think happiness is free? Its going to cost you. Yeah you are also going to have to pay for water, and carbon emissions as you exhale. And food seeds? There is a patent on those so pay up! Oh and since biotech owns 20% of your genome you are going to have to pay them to reproduce copies of their patented material. You got that?

I suggest that if you are going to be in a high sun environment like the reflected surface of a lake for long periods that you cover all your exposed skin with loose fitting but substantial clothing, hats, boots and gloves. Heavy sunblock creams for the exposed areas especially the nose and ears, and neck.

Your dentist's doctor probably was genetically prone to melanomas, or she layed out for longer periods. By the way the point of sun exposure isn't to get brown but to boost happiness. [Of course do your own research and consult your doctor]

Sunscreen blocks vitamin D production. "Try skipping sunscreen 15 minutes a day."
http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/5-tips-healthier-life

There are plenty of studies stating the opposite of the article you linked. I'd rather take my advice from the WHO and the AMA than Dr. Oz. My point was that you do not need to risk unprotected sun exposure to get the amount of sun exposure necessary to avoid the issues you list, that study after study, from multiple reputable health authorities, has underscored that those issues are only a concern in extreme northern environments, or for individuals who are not exposed to ambient light from windows or driving each day.

Most of us spend at least 20 minutes a day in the car, with sunlight beating through. Extraneous sun exposure is not helpful in eradicating those conditions, as the overwhelming majority of people get too much sun exposure as is, without every realizing that they are getting exposure.

Your statement was that there is no cumulative damage from sun exposure, and that the only danger is from burns. That is patently false.

As for myself, I wore heavy sunscreen, head to toe, and was rarely out when it wasn't early morning or late afternoon/evening, as it is too hot to do anything outdoors that far south from around 10am to 6pm most days. And my dentist's daughter was neither genetically predisposed, nor did she lay out more than 20 minutes per day. She simply sunned out each day on her lunch break, in addition to the sun that she normally got, which is well in line with the exposure most people receive throughout the day.

The point is, sun exposure causes damage to your skin, which in turn can lead to skin cancer, regardless of genetic disposition or number of times burned; therefore additional sun exposure is a bad idea as the conditions you list are not avoided by further sun exposure as we as a populace get ample sun exposure without adding an additional 20 minutes per day of UV radiation.

As for the remainder of your rant, you make zero sense. I have no idea where your comments regarding things other than sun exposure come from, therefore will disregard that portion.