Natural Things Can Kill You Too
How often have you thought or said the phrase, “It’s natural and therefore it is safe?”
The basis of this logic is flawed. Something being made or processed does not automatically mean it is dangerous, just as something natural does not automatically mean something is safe.
You may ask the question, “Is there anything that is processed that is good for us?” What defines processed?
For the purposes of this post I will use the following definitions.
-A series of actions, changes, or functions bringing about a result
-A series of operations performed in the making or treatment of a product
-Prepared or converted by a special process
This obviously spans a wide range and if taken to its height of being literal, or being annoyingly anal, it could be hard to find something that isn’t processed. Still, we will bypass a few basic steps and move to ones that would fend well for our argument which is that processed can mean good, and natural can mean bad.
“Good” Processed Foods and Supplements
Fish Oil
Creatine
Protein Powders
Vitamins
Water
You may not think of those things in terms of being processed, but they are. I don’t know anyone who drinks water from a lake, river, or stream. I don’t know anyone who squeezes their fish oil from their own fish.
“Bad” Natural Foods and Drugs
In the past 5 years these following items have caused serious illness/ death and are all natural.
Spinach
Natural Peanut Butter
Apple
Tuna
Red Meat
Chicken
Eggs
Natural Cocaine
Natural Tobacco
People
Before you think that something is bad because it is processed, or something is good because it is natural, ask yourself two questions.
Are you basing your opinion on the right information?
Is there ever a safe in the first place?
Comments
You should probably mention why those “bad” things are bad. Obviously cocaine and tobacco and widely known for health problems.
Still, your lack of evidence in your articles is very common.
Sooo….
knock it off, give us sources.
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