I'm glad that you brought this up. ELF are all around us. The most proximal sources are household appliances, including internet access devices. Hence, the necessity of EMF protection.
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Could barefoot road running cause cancer?
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I can shave off 10% of every one of your PR's regardless of distance if you just let me drill out those evil things from your teeth.
Don't believe me? I bet Dr. Oz will confirm it.
Don't believe me? I bet Dr. Oz will confirm it.
Sid, I happen to love the smell of freshly laid asphalt...and gasoline. Is there something wrong with me? 
Did it work?
Another tangent, but this thread is already blown to hell....
When I was a kid (19) I worked at a golf course. I used to mow the greens barefooted every morning. I loved it, it felt great. One day, the superintendant saw me mowing unshod, and playfully asked me, "Do you have any idea what kind of $*&# I put in the water? Do you want to have children someday? Put on shoes."
When I was a kid (19) I worked at a golf course. I used to mow the greens barefooted every morning. I loved it, it felt great. One day, the superintendant saw me mowing unshod, and playfully asked me, "Do you have any idea what kind of $*&# I put in the water? Do you want to have children someday? Put on shoes."
Yes, they both have 10 and 10. But your question does raise some possible answer to some other questions I've been pondering about their general behavior....
I'm happy to see that this crowd is knowledgeable enough with respect to barefoot machine operating realities to not question how many toes the father has.
Barefoot lawn mowing comes up in all barefoot related forums, and the general consensus is that unless one is wearing steel boots there is no greater risk involved in mowing unshod vs shod. The case can even be made that it is safer due to the sure footedness offered by real soles vs fake ones.
Barefoot lawn mowing comes up in all barefoot related forums, and the general consensus is that unless one is wearing steel boots there is no greater risk involved in mowing unshod vs shod. The case can even be made that it is safer due to the sure footedness offered by real soles vs fake ones.
Mowed my lawn today, barefoot of course...
Of course I have to run tomorrow to get the chlorophyll stains off of my feet.
Neil_D
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Hi Longboard,
I agree with you on the flouride issue. I find it amazing that even with people I work with in the engineering field, some have this bizzare notion that flouride is an evil thrust upon us by the aluminium smelting industry or some such nonsense. The science backs up the idea that flouride reduces tooth decay. Back in my grandparents day they had all their teeth removed at 20 and were fitted with false ones to save them the huge dental bills later in life. Even in Queensland (north eastern australia) they refuse water flouridation because you have a vocal, non scientific group that peddle false information and manage to influence government into halting a program of flouridation that would have helped them. Queensland is the only state in Australia that doesn't have it and they also have the worst teeth. It seems that emotional arguments beat science in most cases, unfortunately.
Neil
Back to possible dangers of cancerous stuff being absorbed by the soles of the feet. That's exactly the question I asked myself when I decided to try out barefoot!
But then I thought of all the cats and dogs touching these surfaces during all their life without shoes on their paws: of course, there are cats and dogs with cancer. There are also shoe wearing humans with cancer. I'm not sure the cancer in animals is caused exclusively by cancerous stuff on the ground as cancer in shoe wearing humans has definitely other origins...
So in the end I decided that barefoot on asphalt is probably less dangerous (in terms of cancer) than say smoking or eating weird E -numbers in your food...
But then I thought of all the cats and dogs touching these surfaces during all their life without shoes on their paws: of course, there are cats and dogs with cancer. There are also shoe wearing humans with cancer. I'm not sure the cancer in animals is caused exclusively by cancerous stuff on the ground as cancer in shoe wearing humans has definitely other origins...
So in the end I decided that barefoot on asphalt is probably less dangerous (in terms of cancer) than say smoking or eating weird E -numbers in your food...
Not to mention vaccines, which routinely kill millions of people who might otherwise have gone on to live happy polio-enchanced lives.
Wow, a real gem Sid!
Given that the author of the quote below is a highly published 35 year professor of chiropractic it should be at least read and taken into consideration when deciding on whether or not to vaccinate your kids. Better yet, read the full article linked to with an open mind.
http://www.tihcij.com/Articles/Anti...ions-for-Public-Health-Ethics.aspx?id=0000377
"There is little question that vaccination has been one of the greatest successes of modern public health.1 And it is equally without question that the benefits of vaccination outweigh its risks. Given this, it is surprising to find that there remain many people who reject vaccination for their children."
I was being facetious Alan; I don't believe losing the use of one's lower limbs enhances one's life at all. I've seen plenty of polio victims in Africa, including a musician I worked with while documenting spirit possession ceremonies.
In general, I don't believe it is possible for medical professionals and researchers to be, as whole, either so ignorant or greedy that they would prescribe harmful vaccines or flouride. I know you don't have to be genius or saint to get into medical school, but I do believe most doctors and dentists are smart, moral people who want to help people get/stay healthy.
I have a family member who buys into all the Dr. Mercola/Alex Jones stuff, along with climate change denial and all that, so I'm well aware of the arguments. I'm a cynic and skeptic by nature, but I also like to believe I have a good feel for what is reasonable (wars waged in the service of powerful corporate, financial, and geopolitical interests, not democracy and freedom, for example), and what's not (corporations colluding with dentists and doctors to profit mutually from toxic products that inflict harm on their patients).
Everyone is being so ironic in threads recently that intensive linguistic analysis is required to work out what our views actually are.
I knew that, I was just adding some info since I figured there would be plenty of anti-vaccine people reading this and challenging your obvious pro-vaccine stance.
