A modest proposal

[Muse]

Not the one by Jonathan Swift for the Irish to solve their hunger problems.

I'm reading Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, the seminal book that ignited the environmental movement back in the early to middle 1960's. She extensively explains the horrendous, egregious malfeasance in the overuse of pesticides.

Now, these chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides went bigtime with DDT, but far more deadly pesticides were soon in common use, being sprayed willy-nilly and with cavalier disregard for potential environmental and human health consequences.

One of the worst problems is the issue of accumulation of these toxins in tissues of animals as you go up the food chain. Evidently, it's stored in fat.

Fat is kind of anathema, at least in modern industrialized societies, "you can never be to thin or too rich," is the saying. However, I don't believe you are going to lose your accumulation of chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides (or the potentially worse compounds they can morph into along the way) by dieting and/or exercise. They would only become more concentrated in your remaining fatty tissues.

So, my question is this: Is the only way you can purge yourself of these toxins by having liposuction? :'( D:

 

[T9D]

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[olds]

Smokes lots of pot. It goes into the fat and will counteract the toxins.

 

[IronWing]

You could breast feed and pawn your toxins off on your kids.

 

[brianmanahan]

paging dr. anarchist

 

[Howard]

So what's the proposal?

 

[videogames101]

is this post supposed to be satire? or am i missing something

 

[AudiophileGeek]

so whats the proposal about?

 

[Billb2]

Pesticides in you fat? A kitchen knife and a Dyson can fix that in 10 minutes.

 

[Naer]

Nah bro, I'm sweet

 

[lxskllr]

My fat stores are my doomsday device I'll use if necessary. Don't piss me off...

 

[Muse]

My fat stores are my doomsday device I'll use if necessary. Don't piss me off...

Hey, man, go on a diet and you might become critical and blow up the continent...

Anyway, logic says this may not be a stupid idea.

so whats the proposal about?

Oh, I thought it was clear... that you should schedule your liposuction now, before it's too late. Not for appearances sake, but for your health. Repugnant, yes, arguably, but maybe true.

...then again, I think some of this stuff gets in your liver, a liver transplant is a little far fetched, unless you're rich and influential, I guess... D: This is deteriorating quickly...

 

[Muse]

is this post supposed to be satire? or am i missing something

No, really Jonathan Swift played the satire card with his, mine is pretty much a probe to find the bottom in this somewhat murky and polluted subject matter... bring along your gloves, gas masks and prophylactics, we might kick up some serious sludge and dust.

 

[KeithP]

Just make a list of the half dozen least crazy "detoxifying" methods you can find on the internet and do all 6 twice a year.

That should be enough to convince your mind that you are fixed and cure any psychosomatic ailments you might have from the toxins.

-KeithP

 

[piasabird]

There are lots of things that can help to detoxify. Koreans and Chinese were experts of using food items, herbs and even poison to make healthy potions. Part of this is because they did not follow modern invasive methods and did not like to cut the body through surgical methods. One Korean doctor was famous for his approach to medicine and wrote an 8 volume encyclopedia about how to use food, herbs and potions for medicine. He came from somewhat poor circumstances and he learned to use common items readily available to treat the poorer patients as well as using rare herbs only available in China and Elsewhere.

 

[piasabird]

One example is Ginger and Mung Beans can be used to clear out toxins in the stomach and gut. Cinnamon is also beneficially for diabetes. Garlic has uses as a low grade antibiotic. Even Green onions have their uses.

 

[piasabird]

Doctors used poison toads in a weird way to treat boils. At one time sores and boils were hard to treat and killed many people. If you think about it, without antibiotic ointment sores and boils can become bothersome and hard to treat. So this is one thing that was difficult to treat. This one doctor came up with the idea of using poison toads. However, the poison from the toads was too strong. Therefore what he did was he took the poison toads and roasted them and burned them and then took the ashes and put that into a kind of potion with other herbs to treat the boils. Poison was also sometimes used to counter attack other poison like the bite of a poisonous snake or scorpion, centipede etc.

The idea is to kill the infection without killing the person. In modern method they use low levels of insecticides in a paste or cream to treat for things like Scabies which is a parasite that can live on a person's skin. Probably other similar treatments are used for head lice. The problem is some pesticides in birds can cause mal-developed eggs in birds. These toxins can build up in fish and then the birds and other animals eat the fish. They found frogs with birth defects because the low levels of toxins in the water ways can be absorbed without a biological animal's body detecting it. Sometimes it is not one pesticide but a combination of things which can cause trouble. So if we test toxins by exposing animals to just one toxin in fairly large doses, we may miss something because of our testing methods.

 

[Muse]

Just make a list of the half dozen least crazy "detoxifying" methods you can find on the internet and do all 6 twice a year.

That should be enough to convince your mind that you are fixed and cure any psychosomatic ailments you might have from the toxins.

-KeithP

I'm not into finding crazy or least crazy anecdotal crap on the internet. The literature I've read is better informed than that and I haven't seen any detox methodology discussed at all. I'm not given to psychosomatic problems. I do know that we are poisoned, every one of us. It's your problem as much as mine. I wouldn't make light of it at least not the way you are doing.

 

[Muse]

There are lots of things that can help to detoxify. Koreans and Chinese were experts of using food items, herbs and even poison to make healthy potions. Part of this is because they did not follow modern invasive methods and did not like to cut the body through surgical methods. One Korean doctor was famous for his approach to medicine and wrote an 8 volume encyclopedia about how to use food, herbs and potions for medicine. He came from somewhat poor circumstances and he learned to use common items readily available to treat the poorer patients as well as using rare herbs only available in China and Elsewhere.

I don't know much about that stuff. My favorite urban area is Chinatown, Oakland, and there a lots of shops devoted to arcane Asian herbal items of a staggering variety, some shops obviously specializing in medicinal herb culture. They are a wonder to look at, for sure. What their uses are, I can only guess. Whether any of that offers the slightest remedy for chlorinated hydrocarbon storage in anyone's body tissues is a question. I have not heard anything to make me think those things can be any benefit for that.

 

[DaveSimmons]

If "To Serve Man" really is a cookbook I don't mind them getting food poisoning.