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Dee2757's avatar

I think the heavy use of sugar in much of the foods pushed in our stores and eateries has much to do with ill health. The refined sugar feeds most of the world's ills I think..

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I suspect it's 99 percent terrain and maybe 1 percent germ. The only reason I give germ anything above 0 is that apparently that are extremely lethal "germs". However, I wonder even for those if the terrain is healthy, what would those lethal germs do, would they kill the person anyway?

There are several examples of how terrain is more important than germ. The obvious is that you expose 20 people to the same "germ", they don't all get sick! Another example is to take a piece of cooked meat, put it in a bowl, and leave it exposed to the air for a week. Do the same with bottled grape juice. Then look at the "germs" in each. They will be completely different even though they were both exposed to the same germs from the air.

But maybe the most important is that we live in a literal ocean of "germs". A normal human body houses 3 trillion bacteria and 30 trillion viruses! We have evolved thru millions of years living within this ocean of bacteria, viruses, and fungi.

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