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You can't trade if you're under the influence!
By nature, the mind and the body are designed to work in harmony
with each other. Addictions to sugar, drugs, alcohol, caffeine and
nicotine not only undercut physical fitness, personal appearance,
and health, but will steadily diminish a person’s self-control,
self-esteem and happiness. These addictions are common but widely
un-admitted. The three most widely used drugs that undermine human
life, health and happiness are - caffeine, alcohol and sugar.
During the past year you will have lost 36,500,000
brain cells from a total of 100 billion, and a lot
more if you're a drinker. The millions of cells which make up your
nervous system are at a peak during young adulthood. After that,
loss of cells through time, will lead to degeneration of faculties
such as sight and hearing.
Alcohol, marijuana and other reality-distorting agents have both
short range and long range harmful effects on health and happiness.
Even in moderate amounts, alcohol and drugs distort reality. All
distortions of reality are harmful, because the human organism
depends on an accurate perception of reality to be
efficient and
competitive and to make the judgements necessary for a prosperous,
happy life. These distortions can be so well rationalised that the
alcohol user, nicotine user, or other drug user will easily choose
to remain unaware of the mounting damage until permanent loss of
happiness and energy becomes inescapable.
Even a few alcoholic drinks cause irreversible damage to certain
cells by dehydration, which causes a sludging together of red blood
cells. Such sludging clogs the blood capillaries, thus, the amount
of oxygen reaching those brain cells, via the minute capillaries,
diminishes. Some of these oxygen-starved brain cells die each time
that dehydration or sludging occurs.
'Damaged or destroyed brain cells do not regenerate'
Any single occurrence of alcohol brain-cell damage is not
measurable. But the effect is cumulative,
gradually causing measurable, permanently damaging
effects.
Marijuana disorients the electrical brain patterns to diminish one’s
quality of thinking and priority order. Marijuana converts action
and ambition into passive dreams and laziness. That movement from
effort and ambition to passivity and dreams may be cumulative. The
‘dream’ effects of marijuana destroy competence.
Breaking sugar, tobacco and caffeine habits quickly
improves a person’s quality of life. A person’s self-esteem also
increases by eliminating habits that are destructive to the
conscious mind and physical body.
The caffeine in coffee, cola and chocolate is a
stimulant drug. Aside from the negative psychological effects of
being controlled by a habit, prolonged and excessive use of caffeine
can cause physical damage to parts of the body such as the kidneys
and pancreas. It also affects the carbohydrate metabolism. This can
add
to the damage and unhappiness caused by sugar
consumption. Sugar causes more unhappiness, illness
and deaths through metabolic damage, both physical and
psychological, than all the other drugs combined.
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