Wayne Douglas“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Food for Thoughts
Unfortunately, to make matters worse, Nature has played a dirty trick on us. When adrenalin is pumped into our blood, sugar, along with endorphins, enter our bloodstream, which makes us feel good. All our problems and worries disappear. People become addicted to these sugar/endorphin rushes, and they go back for more. Not everything that feels good, or tastes good, is good for us.
Dr. Selye’s experiments were done in the laboratory on rats. Other researchers confirmed his findings by experimenting with human volunteers in prison. After being subjected to continual stress, prisoners had numerous symptoms of a decaying body. Some volunteers became too ill to continue with the experiment. When the prisoners were removed from stress and placed in quiet surroundings with plenty of fresh air, sunshine, mineral and vitamin supplements, along with an adequate diet, they eventually recovered. Adelle Davis, in her book, Let’s Get Well, explains what an adequate diet is. It is not pizza and beer.
For hundreds of years scientists had been warning about the health effects of tobacco products while movie stars and famous people were accepting money from tobacco companies to promote smoking. Smoking was big business and big money. Ordinary people on the street were being played for suckers. They willingly gave up their money in order to kill themselves. Social scientists have been telling us for generations, the problem is not tobacco, the problem is that people, for the most part, are very short sighted. If cigarettes killed us immediately, people could understand that they are poisonous. However, people have not been trained to see that a death after thirty or forty years of smoking was caused by cigarettes.
The same thing is happening today with adrenalin/endorphin rushes. People become addicted to this feeling of euphoria. They will watch exciting sports events, jump from aeroplanes, or ride a roller-coaster, in order to get a high. They do not realise; these continual up/down cycles will make them sick and may eventually kill them.
