Question about production numbers

well perhaps you are right... we can become the Jetsons and pop pills for all our discovered dietary needs... Wow , that's attractive and palatable.

Lets just scrape off them taste buds since they won't be needed anymore.

:-))

Hey did you see how the food pyramid has changed? When did the human body change to require a rethinking of what we need to eat??! I missed that memo.

Problem is my friend that we already are doing the vitamin dance, and still find that we are not quite right. Over and over researchers discover that there are subtle things going on within the bodies chemical lab... and so far we really don't have the understanding to bring it all together artificially / synthetically.

Ask any ten vitamin guru's what you should take as supplements and you will likely get 20 different answers. Who has the TRUE Gospel? Who you gonna believe?

Vanderbilt research university in Nashville has discovered that cholesterol has nothing to do with strokes or heart attacks.. Whoop's! Sorry folks, lipitor etc. aint the right way to go. And everyone was so SURE about the cholesterol /heart attack connection. In fact, lose the cholesterol and you may very well HAVE a stroke. Now I'm REALLY confused.

On vitamin C, it appears the white stringy part of the interior of the orange has an essential agent that allows the body to absorb the vitamin C...without the agent, 90% of the "C" you take can't get absorbed and gets flushed right out.

Grain feed beef and farm raised salmon have the same omega make ups...both bad. The omega 3 and omega 6 is out of whack. Amazingly, GRASS fed beef DOES have the right omega 3's, just like wild salmon. Both nutritious. The good and the bad both looks the same, but one is bad and one is good.

Yup....we know all that's necessary to keep the right vitamin's and nutrients in our diets. Heck, some liquid vitamin folks sold many on the idea of switching to a mouth spray over vitamin capsules because they had folks closely examine their stool and saw many of the capsules intact! Obviously if it didn't make it out of the capsule, the vitamin didn't get in your system.

Heart burn and bloating in most people comes from NOT having enough HCL acid in your belly. So take antacids to neutralize the small amount that's left.

:-)

Only way to outsmart the body is to eat a diverse natural diet from a balanced ecology. (Of course that's something that's easy to find in the standard American diet "SAD"). Things have evolved together over millions of years to create what we have now. It's not fair to try and figure it out in the last 100 years...that's almost arrogant to think we can isn't ?...

That doesn't mean we can't accomplish off-planet living, just that we need to allow for a real, comprehensive, ecology to do its thing FOR us in it's mysterious way and not try and short cut it or condense it.

From: Richard
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 10:56 PM
Subject: [spacesettlers] Re: Question about production numbers

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Lucio de Souza Coelho
wrote:
> On 6/14/05, panamabob@s...
> wrote:
> > Yea, in theory, but if you are faced with a guaranteed
fore-shortened life span, aches, pains, teeth falling out, eyes
failing and just general sickness and malaise, would one STILL be so
gung-ho for long term commitment to the lifestyle?
> >
> >
> > :-)
> (...)
>
> Since we would be the first ones, we wouldn't know about falling teeth
> and stuff. :-)

To quote Winnie-the-Pooh, I feel like a bear of no brain. I read
panamabob's comment this morning while eating breakfast. Along with
breakfast, I took two blood pressure pills, and a multivitamin,
Vitamin B-complex, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, and magneseum Zinc mineral
suppliment.

Think of a Space vitamin meneral suppliment that could supply minimum
daily requirements of nearly everything.

And I think if any dietary imbalance came up, flights from Earth would
correct it long before it reached the point panamabob is worried about.

Rick Brooks