Entry 101 - Entry 102

Entry 101 - Why I Rarely Drink Alcohol

9/28/19

These are some excerpts from:
“The Buzzkill News About Drinking Alcohol” by Robert Roy Britt

Alcohol is on the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s list of known carcinogens. The body breaks alcohol down into acetaldehyde, a chemical known to damage DNA and prevent the body from repairing it, setting up the possible growth of various cancers, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The study, published in the Lancet, found a “strong association between alcohol consumption and the risk of cancer, injuries, and infectious diseases.” Among other findings, just one drink daily was linked to a 13% increased risk of breast cancer, 17% increased risk of esophageal cancer, and 13% higher risk of cirrhosis of the liver.

Compared with lifetime teetotalers, people who consume seven to 13 drinks a week are 53% more likely to have high blood pressure, defined as 130/80 or higher, according to a recent study of 17,059 U.S. adults published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

High blood pressure, known as the “silent killer,” raises the risk of heart attack, stroke, and dementia. The study’s lead researcher, Amer Aladin of Wake Forest Baptist Health, offers some frank advice: “If you are drinking a moderate or large amount of alcohol, ask your provider to check your blood pressure at each visit and help you cut down your drinking and eventually quit.”

The rest of the article is below:
https://link.medium.com/52lsHT3em0

Entry 102 - Attacking Others

9/29/19

Sometimes the biggest attackers of something are those who are hurting the most, either for the same reasons deep, deep down or because of other issues in their life that cultivated a life of criticism and judgment. I understand there are people out there who honestly are confused and are just doing what they were told to believe by their church or by those they respect. 

Or maybe they grew up with their parents preaching a certain destructive mentality. Nonetheless, most times people who go out of their way to show intense disapproval of others are very miserable in their own lives.

They're so miserable, and so the way they deal with that misery is by trying to make people feel as miserable as themselves.They might not even know that's the true unconscious reason behind why they attack people, but it is the reason behind a lot. People will hide behind religion, behind people, behind anything besides themselves to give them a reason to attack someone else and try to make them as miserable as they are.

Instead of showing respect for who they are, they'll disrespect them. Instead of loving them, they'll hate them. Instead of accepting them for who they are, they'll reject them for all that they are. They won't just disagree with their actions, they'll disagree with them as a whole. Because when you attack the way someone is, you're not simply attacking a behavior that can change, you're attacking their soul. 

You are making them aware that you disapprove with who they intrinsically are, even though they can't help it. Whether it's their skin color, their race, their socioeconomic level, their political party, their gender, sexual orientation, you're outright judging who they are and attempting to make them miserable by making them aware that there's another bigot in the world who doesn't approve.