More on Health Hazards

I’m glad to hear that some of you enjoyed the piece on “Health Hazards That Never Bothered Us as Kids” (beforeitsnews.com/story/254/272/Health_Hazards_That_Never_Bothered_Us_as_Kids.html).  My spouse has irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), so she has Montezuma’s revenge quite often.  That is another “syndrome” for you!  A grandchild has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and the doctor prescribed Ritalin, which was harmful to the kid.  Sometimes you may wonder if some medical doctors know what they are doing.

I remember going to Tijuana, Mexico, over 40 years ago.  We bought and ate tacos from mobile street vendor stands.  Those tacos were great, and I did not even suffer from Montezuma’s revenge!  However, today, I am unsure whether my system would be negatively affected or not by the germs in the food down there over the border.  However, I will not even go to Mexico anymore.  It is too dangerous to go down there with thousands of people being killed by the drug cartels every year.  I foresee a war with Mexico soon after the drug cartels overrun the Mexican government and Mexico becomes a rogue nation.

I once ate one-half of an onion, and it really gave me Montezuma’s revenge.  Obviously, I am allergic to onions.  However, I still love to eat onions, though.  If I want to clean my system out, I eat onions.  It works every time.  However, note that different types of onions affect my system differently, and it probably would affect yours likewise.

I enjoyed the Deep South when we had lived in Florida.  When I went to college at the University of Oklahoma (part of the Bible belt) and while traveling through the South (Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama), I really enjoyed eating meals consisting of hominy grits and a pound of pock (that’s supposed to be pork).  I also enjoyed turnip greens and collard greens.  Furthermore, I also love the black-eyed peas and cornbread.  I love to put a lot of butter on my cornbread.  Ohhh, sooo good!  My wife adds sugar to the cornbread batter to make sweet cornbread.  Yummy!

I eat my beef cooked only medium-rare, not rare anymore.  I do my eggs over-easy or scrambled, but I still like them a little soft-and-moist instead of cooked to death.  My wife cooks eggs to death killing all known germs and amoebas that are contained therein.  When you cook out or kill all of the vitamins, minerals, and other such nutrients, you might just as well eat cardboard.

If you cook steaks too well-done, indeed charred or cremated (as you may call it), the charring is carcinogenic (i.e., cancer causing).  Thus, if you do not die with one form of disease, you will die with another.  I also like meat charred on the outside but medium rare on the inside by cooking the steak on a flaming charcoal fire.  That’s the way to have your steaks when you are barbequing in the backyard or on a campout.

Additionally, I like my cookies baked until they are crispy and sometimes even burnt.  I get to eat all of the burnt cookies that my wife forgets in the oven beyond the time they should be in there.  Thank goodness; I have not yet succumbed to any kind of cancer.  Nowadays, you can get cancer from just about anything.  I say, live your life with gusto.  If you’re going to die of cancer, so be it.  At least you will be going smiling and happy because you didn’t deprive yourself from all of the enjoyable things of life.

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