u wouldnt believe me if i told but this is true.
i got ill 1n 1978 when i was almost 26 years old. i got ill after quitting ciggarettes, pot and ocassional pills, drinking an average of 36 beers aweek and a poor diet. i started eating good and then got major muscle spasms and chronic fatigue.
then after about 6 months i started studying health books. i literally read 2000 hrs. in 6 years.
i went mostly raw fruits and vegtebles, i exercised but gat flu symptoms every time i worked out hard.
I fasted on water in 6 years - 390 days!. the longest water fast i did was 23 days and weighed 132 lbs when i broke it. ii was 6' 4' so pretty thin. i did everything possible but i gave up.
i started drinking caffiene and ephedra (which is now outlawed) and eating meat,drinking a little beer at nite , and for 10 yrs or so i lived a more active life. i still had problems but stimulated myself to do things.
got married had 1 daughter, played golf, worked. then when i hit 44 everything went down the tubes. had to take pain and still on them.
i developed multiple other problems, tendenitis in elbows, torn rotator cuffs., bone spurs , way worse neck pain,a fissure, i would have joint pains from meat or salt,so i quit, more problems with low back, i lost 2 inches in height, bone loss, poor digestion, colon problem in the 6 months, and many more small problems. so all i can eat now is fruit and vegtebles now. no meat, salt,alcohol,beans,peanut butter,corn products,fried food of any kind,basically my diet is boring , in in bed most of the time playing poker on a lap top. just giving a golf lesson makes me sick for 1 full day. my life stinks. i wished i never woulda stopped the health quest, i quit cause i didnt get better and for 6 years did very little in the prime of my life. all drugs r bad,some people can get away with a lot. i have 3 sisters younger than me and they r worse than i am.1 has ms worse kind totally beridden, 1 has rheumatoid arthritis, and the other 1 is in extreme pain.
U could say i dealt a very bad beat when it comes to inherited constitution. so my reply is sodas r bad , but so r a lot of other things.
I woud say any drug use and excessive alcohol r the worst, then a bad diet and toxic substsnces in our environment.
I can only play the hand i was dealt and it seems to 73 off suit, my sis with ms would have 72 off, i dont know if this help anyone, but live the best u can and dont take your health for granite, if i could do it all over again, i would do a lot different.
im 58 now and probably dont have 10 yrs left at best. poker keeps my mind off the insane boredom my life would be now that i cant do much else. i still hate bad beats and i hope this us poker thing gets worked out soon.