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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Folk Medicine (long)
Message-ID: <656@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 16:20:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.656
Posted: Thu Aug 15 16:20:00 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 22:34:40 EDT
References: <651@gitpyr.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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Summary: 

In article <651@gitpyr.UUCP> dts@gitpyr.UUCP (Danny Sharpe) writes:
>
>From what I've seen, there seems to be a large and widespread body of belief
>that is composed of old ideas (like from Middle Ages and Greek science) passed
>down through time, mystical/pagan/shamanistic ideas about nature, and
>misunderstood modern scientific ideas.  All these notions are combined to make
>a model of the world that is fairly coherent (if you don't question it *too*
>closely).

	Good analysis!
>
>   On eating proteins and starches together:
>
>     "Take for example, the hamburger -- the meat is a protein and the
>      bread is a starch.  It takes a series of ACID digestive juices to
>      digest the protein (pepsin, hydrochloric acid, etc.) and a series
>      of ALKALINE digestive juices to digest the starch (ptyalin, maltase,
>      etc.).  Remember in chemistry class when you burned yourself with
>      some acid, you were told to put an alkaline such as lemon or
>      vinegar, etc., to neutralize the acid!  Well, the same result
>      happens when you eat a protein and a starch together.  They
>      neutralize themselves and absolutely NO DIGESTION IS THE RESULT.
>      Then, as we have learned, when your food doesn't digest, it ROTS."
>
>
	Well, if I remember my old reading on digestion correctly,
the acidic digestion occurs in the stomach, and the alkaline in the
intestines, so ther is *no* possibility of neutralization.
>
>   On sunbathing:
>
>     "Don't overdo your sunbathing as it WILL be harmful -- DO NOT sunbathe
>      between 11AM & 2PM.  The HOT infra-red burning rays are too strong
>      and you can't tan then.
>
	Hmm, well at least half right. Too much sun-bathing *is*
dangerous, it can cause skin cancer!

-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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