A few days before, we all sat down to watch this documentary called “What the Health?” and honestly I was so shocked about the information being poured out like a waterfall. So today I will be explaining to you about a quite different topic. Health. Food. And lies. Now, let us begin.

Meat. The majority of people in America and countless other areas around the globe consume meat. The percentages are massive and though many think that this is quite normal for a everyday diet. But this topic now leads me to talk about diet and disease.

Processed meat is modified to taste better and/or last longer for consument. Numerous studies show that it shows a link with cancer and other defects such as high blood pressure, heart disease, bowel and stomach cancer, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(COPD), and possibly dozens of other terrible effects. Sodium Nitrite is also the cancer causing substance, responsible for those other adverse effects of processed meat consumption. Here are the reasons for why it is an additive for processed meat.

• To improve flavor by extending the fat oxidation(rancidification)
• To keep the red.pink color.
• To prevent the growth of bacteria, cutting the risk of food poisoning.

Nitrite in meat is especially dangerous because it can form into an N-nitroso compound.

But it’s not only processed meat that can affect people. Regular meat itself can be very harmful considering the fact that the majority of facilities holding animals that are being raised to succeed in death are usually in terrible hospitality and are in horrible. conditions. Often near other dearly departed animals.

And another reason that I find quite incredible and can dumbfound many people is that large strong animals such as elephants, hippopotamus’s, bison, buffalo’s, horses, Tamaraw, Elks, rhinoceros’s, Kouprey,  etc. They are all herbivores. And if you look at an herbivore’s teeth, they have strong, flat molars that help them grind  leaves. But carnivores are another story. They are named for their extremely defined canine teeth that help them to tear and rip meat. Homo Sapiens were meant to be herbivores. To eat only plants or plant based meals.

That is a whole different way to tell someone that you’re vegan. Em’ I right? Okay that was really cringy, sorry.

MOVING ON!

Has anyone ever told you that “milk was good for you” or ” your bones will grow strong if you drink lots of milk and eat cheese” or ” you’ll need the calcium when you grow older” or some kind of stereotypical alteration of an otherwise predictable statement. People tend to believe that dairy products help our bones( cheese, milk, etc.) If you believed all that, then be glad you’re still healthy right now…

Though cheese is apparently a staple food for the majority of the world’s population. Cheese is very atrocious for the human body. Cheese is packed with sodium, fat, cholesterol, and is a high calorie product. Typical cheeses are seventy percent fat. The kind of fat they actually contain is mainly saturated fat(bad fat).

There is no evidence supporting the fact that milk is good for your bones and increases stability in physical performance. There are no facts stating that milk can prevent osteoporosis. These myths are merely opinions and no facts. And there is a large difference between fact and opinion. Milk simply is not necessary in a diet.  All the vitamins it may/may not contain can be found in whole plant foods. Nutrients needed for healthy bones such as Vitamin K and manganese is and can’t be found in milk but can also be found in whole plant foods.

Ever since we watched the documentary we have all bailed on eating any dairy products for the rest of our lives.

Now here is a part that will probably shock the dairy out of you. Hehe, get it? Kay, I’ll stop.

ONWARD!

The American Heart Association, Susan G. Komen, American Diabetes Association, and the American Heart Association all are societies that research, and help with these specific health types.

But the American Diabetes Association has a specific page that victims of diabetes can read through about what they can eat. Here’s what I have found:

“A healthy diet is a way of eating  that reduces risk for complications such as heart disease and stroke.

Healthy eating includes eating a wide variety of foods including:

• vegetables
• whole grains
• fruits
• non-fat dairy products
• beans
• lean meats
• poultry
• fish

There is no one perfect food so including a variety of different foods and watching portion sizes is key to a healthy diet. Also, make sure your choices from each food group provide the highest quality nutrients you can find. In other words, pick foods rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber over those that are processed.

People with diabetes can eat the same foods the family enjoys. Everyone benefits from healthy eating so the whole family can take part in healthy eating. It takes some planning but you can fit your favorite foods into your meal plan and still manage your blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol.”

DAIRY PRODUCTS. POULTRY. MEATS. FISH. WHAT THE HECK IS UP WITH THIS WORLD. FISH HAVE MERCURY IN THEM. DO YOU KNOW HOW DEADLY THAT IS?

The association helping people with diabetes is luring people to EAT THINGS THAT CAN CAUSE DIABETES. WHAT THE HECK.

This situation happens in the websites of the societies I have listed.

Then in the documentary there came the scene the broke my beliefs towards these associations. And it all came down to just one simple word: Sponsors.

These associations were being sponsored by companies that manufactured products that can be well known as THE MAIN CAUSE OF LIKE MOST OF THESE DISEASES.

This information shocked me. How are people this way. Why. Is money the only thing that matters? So many people believe in these associations but no. It’s just slowly killing these victims. Like a silent poison.

This documentary really changed my perspective on my health, and how I can protect myself with just simple actions.

Kip Anderson and Keegan Kuhn, produced, directed, edited, and filmed this movie. I believe that many people should what it because it has key information and scientific reasoning to support there claims. Thanks for reading and i hope you learned something that can change your lifestyle. Because it certainly did for me.

 

From the title you could probably already tell what I will be talking about today( considering the fact that I didn’t head this post with my usual cliche quote based on the topic). But I will say it again. Our sun may have been born with a non identical evil twin dubbed “Nemesis”. Astrophysicists and scientists have stated that sun like stars are born in pairs or trios, often wondering why that is. Are these pairs and three’s stars that orbit the same point or do they meet up with the gravity of one star capturing another? An analysis done by Harvard and UC-Berkeley suggests that ALL stars are born in twos and threes. This hypothesis was mainly accepted due to the newborn stars born in a large cloud in the constellation Perseus. An article done by Popular Science states that:

“Stars are born inside egg-shaped clouds called dense cores. These dusty gas clouds block the light from the stars inside and behind them. But fortunately for us, radio waves can penetrate through the darkness. The Very Large Array recently used radio waves to map all the young stars in the Perseus nursery, and the researchers drew on this data to understand the relationships between stars of different ages.”

The two universities have found that binary stars are separated by distances of 5,000 AU or even more. That is approximately 500 times the distance between the Earth and the sun. Two stars tend to be aligned with egg-shaped clouds as an axis. BUT, slightly older stars, say between 500,000 and a million years old are usually closer together. If results can(or will) be replicated they will provide new evidence that the sun was born with a non identical twin located seventeen times farther than the distance of Neptune. Scientists, astrophysicists, and researchers have dubbed the long hypothesized star “Nemesis” due to the suspection casing the fact that this “evil twin” WIPED OUT THE DINOSAURS. Man, after all this time we have been thinking that a ballistic asteroid basically destroyed a whole species. But instead it may actually be the twin brother of our sun. They weren’t kidding when they said it was evil.

“We are saying, yes, there probably was a Nemesis, a long time ago,” co-author Steven Stahler of UC Berkeley said in a statement.” In an interview by Popular Science.

But alas, Nemesis have never been found. If it ever even existed in the first place it might have escaped the gravitational pull of our friendly sun and run of, away from the Milky Way Galaxy. Never to be seen ever again. Wow, such an amazingly close family……. NOT.

About 4.6 billion years ago, miscellaneous materials drew together, gravity causing it all to spin, causing the cloud flatten like into a disc like shape. The material in the center clumped together to soon form a protostar that would soon become the sun. The young protostar was made up of hydrogen and helium but not yet powered by any fusion. Without the process that took place we would never be able to survive here:

The sun. I like to think of like a mother to all of the planets. As if it’s heat and radiation is like a warm embrace( although, to all the youngsters out there, I do not recommend hugging the sun. No, just, no. You’ll learn soon enough kids. You’ll learn soon enough.) For decades scientists and researchers have been studying the sun like hawks watching their own prey. And I am so so grateful that i have so many people I can consult with about these things. In fact I have a bit of a story to tell you:

A few days ago I was talking with my partner in science class about NASA’s latest missions and what they were coming up with next. The only reason we were partners was because my original partner was sick. Therefore I was stuck with the “popular” girl. Now I don’t mean to be rude or anything but she obnoxiously then said the following few comments as I talked: “Oh, MY god Kanmani, when are you ever gonna let go of all this geeky science stuff. I mean c’mon I wanna have a decent conversation that doesn’t include you rambling on and on and on about stupid things.” Well EXCUSE ME, but WHO did ALL of the actual WORK. WHO was writing endlessly while YOU blabbed on and on about makeup and social media. I HAVE A LIFE. WHO got us finished in the first place? WHO was able to make this conversation happen? She then complained about the following things: “Uh, my nail keeps chipping and now it’s getting all over my dress! Oh my gosh, I HATE science class. It’s SoOoOo boring.” Her bright hot pink dress, leggings, cardigan, and shoes made me blind for the whole period. Then I asked her if she heard of the Juno mission( ignoring every single snobby remark by her) “You’re seriously impressed by that? My dad told me about that and honestly I just think it’s a waste of money. Those idiot “scientists” predicted the time wrong by a second. And the mission was just plain stupid.” I stared at her trying to process the words she shot at me.” Then I said something that finally shut her up: “We live in a blue planet that circles around a ball of fire next to a moon that moves the sea. Do you think that’s stupid?” Science. Space. The Universe. The Galaxy. All things that will never ever be called something they don’t deserve to be called. Not when I’m around. Some people just don’t understand what these people are doing. I think it’s revolutionary. But I recently heard something that most people think is really stupid but it’s time that those renegade scientists proved them wrong.

NASA has been planning to touch the sun. Yes and I mean planning. In fact by the time I read the article they posted on Popular Science Magazine’s website, they said already that they were planning to send out a probe into space by the summer of 2018. Imagine, designing, researching, finding material, engineering, everything. Creating a probe that will be able to actually kiss the sun. And may I remind you that the sun is a star. And a star is basically a ball of light and heat. And our specific star is made of light, heat, helium, and hydrogen.  Below is a few pieces of text from the Popular Science article I read( some of the paragraphs are written by me as well):

“Our sun might not seem as enigmatic as more exotic, distant stars, but it’s still a marvelously mysterious miasma of incandescent plasma. And it’s certainly worthy of our scientific attention: Curiosity aside, a violent solar event could disrupt satellites and cause $2 trillion in damages for the U.S. alone. Yet, despite living in its atmosphere, we don’t understand some of its defining phenomena. For sixty years, we haven’t understood why the surface is a cozy 5,500 Celsius, while the halo called the corona—several million kilometers away from the star’s surface and 12 orders of magnitude less dense—boasts a positively sizzling 1-2 million Celsius.

To figure out why, NASA needs to fly a little closer to the sun—and touch it.

We know that magnetic reconnection—when magnetic field lines moving in opposite directions intertwine and snap like rubber bands—propels nuclear weapon-like waves of energy away from surface. Meanwhile, magnetohydrodynamic waves—vibrating guitar string-like waves of magnetic force driven by the flow of plasma—transfer energy from the surface into corona. However, without more data, our understanding of phenomena like coronal heating and solar wind acceleration remain largely theoretical…but not for long.

Launching in 2018, NASA’s Solar Probe Plus will travel nearly seven years, setting a new record for fastest moving object as it zips 37.6 million kilometers closer to the sun than any spacecraft that has ever studied our host star. But what manner of sensory equipment does one bring to Dante’s Inferno?

Spacecraft systems engineer Mary Kae Lockwood tells PopSci that the craft will rely on four main instruments. The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons systems, or SWEAP, will monitor charges created by colliding electrons, protons and helium ions to analyze solar wind—ninety times closer to the sun than previous attempts. Similarly, the ISIS (Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun) employs a state-of-the-art detection system to analyze energetic particles (think: cancer-causing, satellite-disabling particles).

The FIELDS sensor, meanwhile, will analyze electric and magnetic fields, radio emissions, and shock waves—while gathering information on the high-speed dust particles sanding away at the craft using a technique discovered by accident. Lastly, the Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR telescope, will make 3D, cat-scan-like images of solar wind and the sun’s atmosphere.There’s just one problem. Between intense heat, solar radiation, high-energy particles, the fallout of solar storms, dust, and limited communication opportunities at closest approach, all that sensitive equipment is going to an environment that almost makes Juno’s new home look sympathetic by comparison. “One of the things we had to watch out for in the design,” according to Lockwood, was the electrical “charging” of the spacecraft by the solar wind. The probe has to be conductive “so that the instruments that are actually measuring the solar wind don’t have interference.”

To get close enough to worry about that, though, the probe’s has to “lose some energy” says Lockwood, performing several Venus flybys to shrink its orbit “[allowing] us to get . . . closer and closer to the sun.”However, that comes with “interesting design challenges, because you’re not only going into the sun” as heatshield mechanical engineer Beth Congdon tells PopSci. “You get hot on approach, and then come out and get cold,” over and over for 7 flybys and 24 orbits. “You actually need to have it cyclically survive hot and cold temperatures.” And high energy particles. And hypervelocity dust. For that, you need a heat shield “different from any other heat shield that has ever existed.”

The heat shield that they are designing has to support itself to survive hypervelocity space dust, survive hot and cold temperatures, and many more things that can and will be a threat.

But what I really want to see if that probe can break the space between us and the sun.

Let me touch it. Let me touch the space between us.