Why I Don’t Eat Fish:

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Hey there, Tim/FacelessFatloss here…

People are always surprised to hear that I don’t eat fish, not even wild salmon.

I haven’t been able to for about three years now.  Used to be a part of my diet, after being a vegetarian (lact0-ovo) for over 15 years, and it worked well for me for a short time.

But I couldn’t figure out why I was getting headaches so readily, until I traced it to my fish consumption.  I rarely to never get headaches…so I knew whatever was causing them was traceable.

“Yes,” we all know salmon are supposed to be a great protein source as well as the healthy fatty acids, but even the wild caught varieties that are supposed to have minimal to no mercury, affect me. 

I am not claiming it’s any alleged mercury content in the fish that is causing the problem, but I’m stating that it is likely the case, or else it’s some other form of toxin.  I know what my body feels like, what symptoms I’m going  to experience, when I’m detoxing.  I experience these symptoms after even a little bit of fish.

The general rule is, the larger the fish (such as tuna, shark) the more toxins you will have to contend with.  The smaller fish such as sardines are supposed to be among the least toxic.  I used to eat them on occasion as well, out of those terribly stinky cans that they came in.

Can’t do any of them any more, but might give the sardines another try sometime.

One thing is certain:

I always used some form of chelation when eating fish, and if I ever eat fish again, I will amp up the chelation even more aggressively.  The best new ways of grabbing mercury are extremely effective…BUT…I don’t have any plans of eating fish again any time soon, and will very likely keep it out of my diet permanently at this point.  At least until a serious clean-up of our environment is undertaken and some conclusive proof exists that the wonderful fish in our seas are not being poisoned by industrialization on an on-going basis.

Tim

Sucralose/Splenda…The Sweet Deception?

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It has never been an issue for me.

If a sweetener is made in a lab, it ain’t goin’ in my gut…period.

And as it turns out, the gut may be the very WORST place it can possibly go, based on a Duke University study that is being touted in some mediums as applying to humans, while the tests were apparently based on rats.

(As an aside, do we really need to be doing these tests on animals with our lab-made poisons?  Sometimes I feel like I’m living in the age of barbarism).

I certainly did not need any rat studies to tell me that ingesting an artificial sweetener might not be good for me.

All I ever needed was the headaches I experienced whenever I *did* consume them to convince me they were poison.

The study concluded that Sucralose/Splenda is responsible for destroying the healthy bacteria in the rat’s gut.  Some reports as referenced are claiming this applies to humans as well.

And I wouldn’t doubt it for a second.

And this makes it one of the most destructive food additives imaginable.  The LAST thing people would want from their foods, is the “bonus” of having their immune system dismantled in the process.

On top of this, keep in mind that when the body tastes something sweet, the body wants and expects a real sugar to be entering the body so that it can make use of the much-needed glucose as a source of energy.  We’re taking in far too many sugars as is in the western world, but we still NEED *some* healthy natural sugars for survival, the brain and muscles depending dearly on glucose.

So if the body is not getting what it wants from the sweet we’ve just eaten, what is it going to crave?

…It will crave what it wanted and expected.

Often resulting in the person eating MORE food to find it.

I personally don’t believe man is capable of building foods that could be more healthy or better for the body than what nature provides.

But that’s just me.

BUT, I think I demonstrate pretty well what the results of what eating what nature provides can do for a body.

Love, Happiness, Health and Peace…………..Tim