Stop the damn insanity!

Where the hell is Susan Powter when you need her. Seriously. Someone needs to say, no shout, no yell a whole lot of stop the insanity!!!!

It just makes no sense. Food companies, drug companies, mega conglomerate corporations are killing us. Or more to the point, getting us to pay them to kill us. No, more like making us pay them to give us the meds, food, drugs, plastic-ized shit that we then use to kill ourselves. All by ourselves. Yes folks, we are slaving away day after day at some inane job, stressed, crippled by technology, radiation, carpal tunnel syndrome, toxic office air, synthetic office politics and painful fake perma-grins to make enough money to kill ourselves. Ain't life rich.

The shooter at Omaha mall, 19 year old Robert Hawkins was on SSRI’s (pharmaceutical anti depressants) OK, fine. He wasn’t on them at the time of the shooting. He was on them and then went off them cold turkey two weeks before the shooting. Whatever, right? Oddly enough, according to the FDA, an abrupt change in doses can produce suicidal, hostility or psychosis side effects. You don't say.

Britney, Lindsay, Anna Nicole, are all or were on SSRI’s. Huh? You mean, they are not really loopy? Not really. Its the sugar. It’s the meds. It’s a disaster.

Dr Ann Blake Tracy may be my hero. She is the drug companies anti-Christ. The sugarless queen. She believes that sugar is our enemy. Michael Moore discovered Dr. Tracy and her sugar issues after he had released Bowling of Columbine. And now, well, let’s just say he’s given up the Metallica theory. Sugar you see, increases serotonin. High levels of serotonin in a human body will cause depression by causing low blood sugar.

Low blood sugar makes you tired and sad. And when we are tired or sad, what do we do? Go for a walk? Drink some water? Nope. We grab a chocolate bar or a mocha choca latte, something with sugar and caffeine to perk us up. Perk up our mood. Our energy. Our serotonin levels rise which causes our blood sugar to drop and around we go again. And again and again. A round, sugary sweet spiral of despair.

However, Dr Tracy said that there is hope. A new cutting edge therapy, Eco Therapy. It’s 90% effective in curing depression. 90%. What? That’s huge. SSRI’s and our friendly drug companies can only promise a 30-40% effectiveness of curbing depression. Whatever is this new Eco Therapy? How do I do it? It must be so expensive. And of course it is. It requires time, energy, a good pair of walking shoes. Yep. A walk in the woods. For ½ an hour. A week. Good old exercise. Dr. Tracy also said a ½ hour of exercise three times a week is 8 times more effective that any medicine we have available today.

Yep. That’s great. The best cure we have is a walk in woods. And what are we doing? Cutting down our forests for houses, stores, factories, people. More people, who will eat more sugar and get depressed and take anti depressants and go crazy and kill more people. What a fun roller coaster. But we allow it! We buy into it. We encourage it? The drug companies are making over 200 million dollars a day on anti depressants alone. We are paying 200 million dollars a day to anesthetize us. Numb us. Kill us. Nice work if you can it, I’d say.

Most everything you find in the grocery store has sugar in it in some form. The worst actually is what? White processed sugar? No. Sweet n' low? No. Fructose. Fructose? Huh? But that’s in everything. Everything good anyways. Even good ol' South OJ. But its bad. Bad for the bones. And the blood. And the digestion. For the whole damn body. It is a chemical that our bodies have no idea what to do with. Yep. Just try to find a product without fructose. Go on, I dare you.

I tried. I am a careful consumer. I just went grocery shopping and damn, was it hard to find products that were not filled with some unpronounceable chemicals or laced with fructose. And that’s just the outside perimeter.

I learned long ago that any real food is only stocked around the perimeter of a grocery store. One never needs venture into the fating starchy process land of the aisles. Well except for toilet paper and cat food. And don’t get me started on the sheer volume of that crap stacked on the shelves. Astounding.

As I stood in line gazing over the inane headlines of the National Enquirer or Oprah or the Star, I glance over to the other people in line. Over weight people. People with skin problems, red acne all over their face. Greasy haired people. People slouched over and aging way beyond their time. All with their carts loaded with Krispy Kremes, Oreo cookies, packaged coffee, frosted flakes, canned peaches with added sugar, frozen microwaved dinners, frozen burritos, Kraft dinner, Heinz ketchup, bags and bags of Lays potato chips, gallons of Coke.

And I just thought. What if. What if we actually stopped eating all this junk? What if we stopped taking bizarre pills for problems caused by eating all this junk? What if we went for a walk in the woods now and again? If we left the woods for walking in instead of tearing them down? If we could actually grow more woods? What if we exercised three times a day? What if we got off this insane sugar rollercoaster?

What if we were only concerned with getting healthy? And happy. And living long. What if we put all our money and our energy into that? Seriously. What if.