Someone's been watching too much of Oprah's fraud doctor again...

Guess I should stop making carrot-apple-pear-cucumber juice in the juicer.

Vodka Zombie [TotalFark] Add Favorite User Quote 2011-12-02 12:40:01 PM Ignore User
Someone's been watching too much of Oprah's fraud doctor again..

THIS.

I dont care how real a doctor he was in real life, the minute he steps onto Oprah's stage everything he says is open to question. Drive-by accusation and sensationalism are not science, no matter how well you sell it on TV, Doctor. Same junk with Dr. Drew and his phony baloney profit-off-others-pain scams.

My fat arse has been avoiding fruit juice for years, and I've caught so much farking flack from coworkers, family, friends - "But fruit juice is good for you!"

Riighhtt.

You ever read the label on that shiat? Just look at the amount of carbohydrates in one serving. And then compare that to the amount of vitamins, minerals, fiber and proteins in it. It really IS just glorified masquerading-as-healthy sugar water. You may as well pop a multivitamin and drink a bottle of Coke; you'll be getting even more vitamins that way.

SkittleBrau: Quasar: Guess I should stop making carrot-apple-pear-cucumber juice in the juicer.

Got a juicer two weeks ago and have been making my own veggie & fruit juices. Carrot is surprisingly sweet and really good. Kale is not surprisingly stinky and not so good tasting. I still use the kale and just put a bunch of other stuff with it. Apple juice from a juicer is completely different from the pasteurized, clarified stuff in the bottle.

Love cucumbers, but the juice? - not so much.

Try watercress.

Get Lost: /Fluoride still the worst thing to drink, you white speckled teeth monster.

Dagnabbit, now I'm going to be hunting down a reverse osmosis filtration system...


/everything is making us sick
//brb lighting another cigarette

The anti-soft drink league often glosses over how much sugar (and acid) there is in juice, even or especially natural unadulterated juice. An orange juice will do a lot more damage than a cola.

They make a big deal of the phosphoric acid in a Coke, but you never hear them complain about an organic smoothie.

In most cases, the amount of acid is low enough to not do serious harm unless you drink way too much of the beverage and don't brush or flush the acid. Thus, it is a good idea not to drink anything but water or milk before bed.

Here's a good list of many beverages and their pH (low-acid, high-less acid, basic).

A pH of 7 is neutral. Presumably the brilliant teeth of many South Sea Islanders was due to their consumption of large amounts of coconut milk. Coconut meat is high calorie and full of the wrong sort of fats, but it's milk is pH-balanced. No doubt one reason coconut is used in natural-product based shampoo and cosmetics. Better to wear a lot of coconut than eat it, I guess. Mmmm ... Bounty bars!

Sorry. Here's the link: http://www.21stcenturydental.com/smith/pH_drinks.htm

WarszawaScream: Get Lost: /Fluoride still the worst thing to drink, you white speckled teeth monster.

Dagnabbit, now I'm going to be hunting down a reverse osmosis filtration system...


/everything is making us sick
//brb lighting another cigarette

Don't worry, fluoridated water is fine. That website is full of half-truths and statistical manipulations to get you to buy into their conspiracy theorist fear.

rev_zeolite: Apple juice?

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Link (new window)

We have all ingested LSD - it was in the apple juice. Suggestions?

Link (new window)

/love DJO

Get Lost: Oh sure fluoride is good for you in tap water(not), but you must be a greedy dentist or some billionaire corporate mogul who enjoys dumping toxic waste from the aluminum smelter or smokestacks of the fertilizer plant into peoples drinking water to avoid the toxic waste disposal fee's.
People drinking the water in New Orleans have a 'death by cancer' wish. That water is some of the most polluted shiat in North America. Lake Erie has also been compared to a septic tank. The waste of coal burning(fly Ash) has so much chemical/metals contamination that educated people do not want to drink any water near the ash dump and hope that the scrubbers in the stacks are working properly.

So after taking all arguements into consideration I went "Hey wait a minute," looked it up and made a phone call - turns out most of the water districts where I grew up and where I now live don't put fluoride in the tap water to begin with. Awesome!

...might explain a lot of my bad dental issues though...

Anyone who wants to can check theirs out here: My Water's Fluoride (new window)

/the dental issues are actually genetic

Everything is bad for you. If you listened to all the experts the best thing you could ever do for your children is kill them at birth.

highendmighty: From day one, my son's pediatrician told me that diet soda was better for his body than apple juice.

You missed a huge grand fight at my infant's doctor between the doctor, myself vs my wife. She said that she was buying apple juice for the kid. I went "Like heck you are - that stuff is awful" (ok - more forcefully than that). The doctor went through what I considered a good diet for the infant when he stopped breast feeding and then what the wife thought. He looked at her and told her that I was going to be the one making the menus. All heck broke loose. Apparently my "sainted" MIL told the wife what to feed the kid. Wrong as usual. Apparently a 1st school teacher in rural KY knows more than a pediatrician who interned at Mass Gen.

Get Lost: mgshamster: WarszawaScream: Get Lost: /Fluoride still the worst thing to drink, you white speckled teeth monster.
Dagnabbit, now I'm going to be hunting down a reverse osmosis filtration system...
/everything is making us sick
//brb lighting another cigarette

Don't worry, fluoridated water is fine. That website is full of half-truths and statistical manipulations to get you to buy into their conspiracy theorist fear.

Oh sure fluoride is good for you in tap water(not), but you must be a greedy dentist or some billionaire corporate mogul who enjoys dumping toxic waste from the aluminum smelter or smokestacks of the fertilizer plant into peoples drinking water to avoid the toxic waste disposal fee's.
People drinking the water in New Orleans have a 'death by cancer' wish. That water is some of the most polluted shiat in North America. Lake Erie has also been compared to a septic tank. The waste of coal burning(fly Ash) has so much chemical/metals contamination that educated people do not want to drink any water near the ash dump and hope that the scrubbers in the stacks are working properly.

Actually, I'm a toxicologist.

Dilute the apple juice with some water (nice, flouride added water, yum). As long as its (apple juice) not the only thing they drink. Brush their teeth regularly. It sounds hard, but its not.

The part I was most impressed with is that Americans are 10 times more susceptible to arsenic than Canadians. Yea Canada...

also all sugars are not equal. Fructose does not effect the body equally to sucrose or the red queen high fructose corn syrup...