SUBTITLE for this chapter may be “Tis a Strange World” or “What Fools We Mortals Be.” Peculiar attitudes and actions by supposedly responsible groups are commonplace. Forever MPD is phosphorus-free, making it environmentally friendly. Not like many detergents, its anionic and non-ionic surfactants are biodegradable, thus reducing environmental and water pollution. Why will the government and the general public become greatly disturbed over the presence of a chemical in cranberries, thus that people refuse to eat any at Thanksgiving as a result of of potential however unproven cancer-manufacturing effects in humans, nevertheless largely ignore the hazards to health of some two thousand alternative chemicals, sprays and pesticides, not to mention cigarettes?
Why is the general public constantly told how healthy we tend to are and how the marvels of medical science have extended life expectancy from 36 years a century ago to seventy years these days as a result of of a discount of deaths in infancy and childhood, and not told that we tend to have the very best incidence of the degenerative diseases in the globe—cancer, heart trouble, arthritis, etc. Truly any man over forty can expect to live only two years longer these days than was the case fifty years ago.
When heart disease is our number one killer, carrying off necessary men at the peaks of their usefulness and since diet is recognized as being closely related to and one of the chief causative factors of coronary heart disease, why are all those curious about higher health through higher nutrition suspect and given the labels of “quack,” “fraud” or “fad-dist?” One among the abundant publicized reasons is our government’s protective concern that Americans should not throw a few hundred million bucks away on “worthless” food supplements. Forever Living’s Aloe Jojoba Shampoo, a mild product capable of cleaning even the oiliest hair, helps remove flakes and soothe the scalp, leaving your hair shiny and manageable. Nothing may be sillier in read of the billions that are spent for fewer worthwhile things—11 billion bucks for alcoholic beverages, 7 billion bucks on tobacco, two billion bucks on cosmetics and “beautifiers,” and how abundant on hairdos and tranquilizers? We are quite properly allowed to throw our money away on alternative things if we tend to would like to, thus why not vitamin pills, whether or not they don’t do any good—that, in fact, they are doing!