Free Radicals
To those of us who are attempting to be health conscious, we try to eat those foods that are good for us. We are told that taking the right mix of vitamins and minerals and eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables will help keep our bodies healthy and operating above the minimum level. One of the things these vitamins are supposed to do is capture something called free radicals. A free radical is a molecule that is ingested that as it passes by strands of DNA, causes destruction to the molecules that make up that strand. The body does a good job of repairing the DNA but sometimes the damage is not repaired promptly or it is too great and we end up with a cell that has bad information. If that cell replicates, it transmits that bad information to the new cell. Sometimes, that information causes cancer.
The big C word frightens many people. Within my life time, a doctor’s diagnosis that you had cancer was pretty much a death warrant. You had the miraculous recoveries but they were rare. It was also the beginnings of radiation therapy and chemotherapy but for the most part you lost your hair, got sick from the chemo and died bald and sick. Getting diagnosed with cancer today is still a major life altering thing but the advances in medicine have greatly advanced the survival rate among the afflicted. The bane of the medical world is caused by something as small as a molecule that damages living tissue. It is not much different than the larger version of free radicals; the kook liberal fringe.
The radical movement was born during the long haired, hippy days of free love and responsibility avoidance. It was centered on getting out of an illogical war, Vietnam, but the weaponry of the radical movement focused its vengeance on the wrong group; the troops. It was so destructive because it was done using the free speech trump card. Troops coming back from the war were subjected to protests, being labeled baby killers and having urine and feces thrown at them. And all they did is serve their country.
We have a new batch of free radicals and those who have grown up once again using that free speech right to subject our citizens to a new kind of protest. The agenda of the major media outlets is nothing more than an extension of the free radical movement. They have made subjects like civil war in Iraq and Al Gore’s video on global climate change household topics while never showing the other side of either topic. There is never a level playing field with the free radicals of the mass media. It is always what is on their agenda and never just what is actually happening. After all, that would be reporting the news and not preaching an agenda. What is sad is the destructive nature of what they pound into the minds of those that watch them causes the same problems as the destruction of DNA. Some people can heal themselves, some people get enough of the cure that they become healthy again but like the medical technology of my youth, there are many walking around, sick with the cancer of misinformation and misguided agendas.
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Cobb
The big C word frightens many people. Within my life time, a doctor’s diagnosis that you had cancer was pretty much a death warrant. You had the miraculous recoveries but they were rare. It was also the beginnings of radiation therapy and chemotherapy but for the most part you lost your hair, got sick from the chemo and died bald and sick. Getting diagnosed with cancer today is still a major life altering thing but the advances in medicine have greatly advanced the survival rate among the afflicted. The bane of the medical world is caused by something as small as a molecule that damages living tissue. It is not much different than the larger version of free radicals; the kook liberal fringe.
The radical movement was born during the long haired, hippy days of free love and responsibility avoidance. It was centered on getting out of an illogical war, Vietnam, but the weaponry of the radical movement focused its vengeance on the wrong group; the troops. It was so destructive because it was done using the free speech trump card. Troops coming back from the war were subjected to protests, being labeled baby killers and having urine and feces thrown at them. And all they did is serve their country.
We have a new batch of free radicals and those who have grown up once again using that free speech right to subject our citizens to a new kind of protest. The agenda of the major media outlets is nothing more than an extension of the free radical movement. They have made subjects like civil war in Iraq and Al Gore’s video on global climate change household topics while never showing the other side of either topic. There is never a level playing field with the free radicals of the mass media. It is always what is on their agenda and never just what is actually happening. After all, that would be reporting the news and not preaching an agenda. What is sad is the destructive nature of what they pound into the minds of those that watch them causes the same problems as the destruction of DNA. Some people can heal themselves, some people get enough of the cure that they become healthy again but like the medical technology of my youth, there are many walking around, sick with the cancer of misinformation and misguided agendas.
Icool
Cobb
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