Natural Health Nutrition

I asked a question about building muscle tone, and mentioned as a side note that I didn’t want to take protein drinks so please don’t suggest them. I got tons of people calling me an idiot because I said they were unnatural, but not many answers to my actual question. Really people? You honestly believe this? Whey, soy and hemp protein drinks may be derived from natural sources, but they have altered the proteins to be "smaller" and therefore easier for the body to assimilate (which is why you will build more muscle faster drinking a soy protein mix than eating a comparable volume of soy beans). Proteins are not like this in nature, because your body is not meant to take in that much of it that easily (we obviously need protein to survive, but there is too much of a good thing you know?). Anabolic steroids are proteins too fyi. Are people suggesting simply because illegal steroids are proteins that they too are healthy and in a natural form? Please enlighten me to your reasoning here. High fructose corn syrup is derived from a perfectly healthy natural source too. But it has been altered in such a way, it is no longer healthy and is downright toxic for the body. MSG is naturally present in small quantities in certain fruits and veggies, and when eaten in this form is totally fine, but used as a synthetic food additive it is terrible for you. Olestra (the fake fat in light potato chips) is yet another lovely thing people eat that is derived from a perfectly healthy source, but tweaked into something highly toxic and dangerous for the body. Yes, I am one of those "health nuts" who researches this stuff for the hell of knowing about it even though I don’t ingest any of it. Now I don’t care what anyone else choses to put in their body, drink antifreeze if you want, but are you even keeping yourself informed before making the decision to put these products into your one and only body? Do other people really blindly follow what advertisers out to make money tell them without looking into what their putting into their body first? Do people in this day and age with information instantly available to them over the internet really not take advantage of researching how products work within their bodies? Do you all really think if the FDA allows it to be sold it’s safe? Or do you already know and just don’t care or what?

You are right but why should you worry so much? There’s all kinds of people out there believing all kind of stuff.
I have found out myself that the more I know, the more I distance myself from the majority of people but I have also learned not to care so much about it, it’s part of the learning process so get over it.

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