TOTALED GUTSPHERE IN THE FASTOCENE: FAST FOOD DEGLUTITION, FAST INHUMATION

Source: LiveScience.

By Gundhramns Hammer
March 29, 2014

Let crap be not your food and food be not your crap.

What is good for the taste is not necessarily good for the body. And what is good for the body not necessarily has to taste good.

For example, most people do not dig broccoli, even when this member of the Brassicaceae family is really good for human health. 

Since our brains are hardwired for sweets, broccoli does not ring the evolutionary bell in our brains.

But numerous studies have shown that broccoli is a rich source of phytochemicals (e.g., glucosinolates), phenolic compounds, essential minerals (e.g., Fe, Zn, Mg, Ca, etc.) and antioxidants such as vitamins (e.g., C, K1), all of which reduce the risk of cancer (Moreno et al., 2006).

On the other hand, refined sugar and anything that contains this substance indeed make our hard disk go crazy. 

Sugar rings our ancient limbic bell. It turns on the brain´s opioid system.

As a result, white table sugar has become one of the most powerful agents to bewitch and hook humans. 

A fact that has not gone unnoticed by the food industry. They make sure sugar is omnipresent in our sophisticated diets.

This coupled with all of the unfulfilled emotional needs and storms brewing in people´s heads, the pressure of daily life, school or work, and other factors in the totaled humansphere, what you finally get is millions of people hooked on this substance around the world. Millions of sugarholics, sugar addicts or sugar junkies, whichever you prefer.

Now, if you put junk food on top of this sugar craze, then the result is an obesity epidemic worldwide. 

Obesity is now a global issue. We now have in our hands, as someone has call it, a "globesity" (Video 1). 

                                 Video 1. Globesity: Fat´s new frontier.

With a diet full of refined sugar (white table sugar), junk foods and truckloads of sophisticated meats, i.e., full of nasty chemicals, extenders and fillers, all going down his gullet, in other words, gobbling up lots of crap, man is already suffering the consequences.

Generally speaking, man has got a totaled gutsphere and therefore poor health, is ridden with cancer and quite prone to having his heart quit working or explode anytime. 

Croaking the food line, kicking the bucket due to the weight of food overconsumption, a process which makes really happy the undertakers who will dig his grave, has become a common occurrence in human society.

The Fastocene

We are now in the Fastocene: Living times of fast in everything including deglutition (Video 2).

                                                Video 2. Fast food nation.

And of course, these are times of sudden deaths and fast inhumation too (Video 3).

                                      Video 3. Death on live TV.

So, let crap be not your food and food be not your crap.

References

Huffnagle G. B. & Noverr M. C. (Eds) (2008). GI Microbiota and Regulation of the Immune System. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology Vol. 635. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, New York, NY, USA. 149 p.

Moreno D. A., Carvajal M., López-Berenguer C. & García-Viguera C. (2006). Chemical and biological characterisation of nutraceutical compounds of broccoli. J. Pharm. Biomed. Anal., 41: 1508-1522.

SUGAR: A QUIET SUGARED DEPARTURE FROM THE VALLEY OF TEARS

Source: Nutribullet.

By Gundhramns Hammer
November 9, 2013

Sugar (Sanskrit sharkara = candied or ground sugar), a substance extracted from sugarcane (chiefly Saccharum officinarum) has played an important role in man´s history. It has been behind the rise and fall of empires, the birth of merchant dynasties, rampant contraband, pirates and corsaries´ greed and the slave trade in the past. 

The importance of this saccharide has not slackened off yet. It is even bigger now. It is a grand queen. The global sugar manufacturing industry is certainly a multibillion business.

But there is a dark side to sugar, just as it had it in the past. Right now in the XXI century, the excessive consumption of sugar is one of the chief agents causing a cascade of human ailments and diseases around the world. 

As a matter of fact, according to some experts, excessive sugar consumption is the epicentre of an obesity epidemic in "developed" and "undeveloped" nations.

Obese people is the trading mark of anyone who can afford to stuff himself with sweets, soda pop and junk food. There is plenty of human adipose tissue around. So much so that if properly tapped, human fat could become a fountain of unsustainable "sustainable" energy, a source of biofuel. 

Sugar is the in thing in the XXI century. People cannot pass a day without having sugar. People go nuts without a dose of sugar. Some people even kill to get a cup of sugar. And lots of people die because of sugar. 

People are addicted to sugar everywhere. Avena et al. (2008) indicactes that sugar is "noteworthy as a substance that releases opioids and dopamine and thus might be expected to have addictive potential" in the brain. In other words, sugar is a drug. And it is legal.

Sugar + additives have made humans (Homo insapiens) irritable, lazy, batty and sick. Humans are having a slow and quiet sugared death, a sweet departure for this Valley of Tears (Video 1).

                                            Video 1. Sugar: The Bitter Truth.


Have you had your sugar today? 

Go easy on her or she might screw up your life. What is left of it, anyway. After all, we are all tombstonebound. 

References

Avena N. M., Rada P. & Hoebel B. G. (2008). Evidence of sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev., 32 (1): 20-39.