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Post by trubble on Jun 10, 2009 20:36:09 GMT
Some mad lady gave me this list and it's no doubt all a load of cod's wallop (what is a cod's wallop?). I am especially dubious because of the warning at the bottom that says 'don't break this chain'.  . And that it tells you to eat these raw for the best results but I thought that the latest research said that carrots and tomatoes were more effective if processed or cooked. Anyway, for your amusement:  A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.They also taste very BOOOORRRRRRING. Hate carrots.   A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.Also called the Love Apple.   Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.Meh... but that does mean that wine is good for you.  |
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Post by trubble on Jun 10, 2009 20:42:43 GMT
 A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.Do we?   Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys. Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the bodyCelery doesn't look VERY much like bones...  Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit . There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (mo dern science has only studied and named about 141 of them). |
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Post by trubble on Jun 10, 2009 20:53:25 GMT
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Post by trubble on Jun 10, 2009 20:56:12 GMT
So counting that all up, I've done some excellent work today on my heart and blood and kidneys, and free radicals. I've cared for my ovaries and neglected my eyes.  What does whiskey look like? |
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Post by Flatypus on Jun 10, 2009 21:13:37 GMT
There's a lot of truth in these. It was called the Doctrine of Signatures. There's also a lot of bunk because other plants that don't resemble anything are good for you too and plenty that do resemble something don't have any particular medicinal or nutritional value at all. Tomatoes contain anti-oxidants, said to be good against free radicals (terrorists?) linked to cancer. A good guess as something having values verging on the medicinal is that parts of it or its relatives are poisonous. What may poison you has every chance of having a close chemical relative that will poison something else or at least have beneficial effects. A lot of herbs and spices are aniseed-hemlock family and tomatoes, peppers, potatoes and those nasty orange 'cape gooseberries' (and aubergines?) are nightshade.
Cod's wallop was a 19th century drink kept fizzy by using a marble in the neck as a pressure valve before crimped metal caps were invented. Leastwise, that's the respectable explanation. The other one relies on cod being an earlier version of pod under the codpiece - you can work the wallop out for yourself!
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Post by sinistral on Jun 10, 2009 21:59:05 GMT
[/img]  [/quote] Pardon? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2009 22:05:18 GMT
[/img] [/quote] Pardon?[/quote] Patience - I'm gonna nail this bastard if it kills me . |
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Post by trubble on Jun 10, 2009 22:10:30 GMT
I saw it! and it's lovely, arf. |
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Post by trubble on Jun 10, 2009 22:12:34 GMT
Cod's wallop was a 19th century drink kept fizzy by using a marble in the neck as a pressure valve before crimped metal caps were invented. Leastwise, that's the respectable explanation. The other one relies on cod being an earlier version of pod under the codpiece - you can work the wallop out for yourself! Aha! Thank you.  I guess the value, if any of that stuff is true, is in the easy way of remembering the info. |
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Post by trubble on Jun 10, 2009 22:14:35 GMT
Here's another one for you, Piff. "warming the cockles of one's heart" It seems to be a rare one that no one can trace but perhaps you have a theory. |
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Post by Patrick on Jun 10, 2009 22:21:06 GMT
Where does that leave ...............
The Turnip!
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Post by sinistral on Jun 10, 2009 22:23:27 GMT
Patience - I'm gonna nail this bastard if it kills me . Nail what?  God....the suspence is killing  |
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Post by trubble on Jun 10, 2009 22:33:39 GMT
Sometime's the pleasure's in the anticipation, sin.
Patrick, I believe that the turnip is a parsnip.
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Post by Patrick on Jun 10, 2009 22:45:13 GMT
Sometime's the pleasure's in the anticipation, sin. Patrick, I believe that the turnip is a parsnip. I think you might have something there! They don't make turnips like they used to y'know! |
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Post by everso on Jun 10, 2009 22:56:37 GMT
Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.Meh... but that does mean that wine is good for you. I thought you were going to say that grapes give you piles. Sorry! |
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Post by sinistral on Jun 10, 2009 23:23:10 GMT
I thought you were going to say that grapes give you piles. No that's wet grass......... or is it hot radiators? |
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Post by Flatypus on Jun 10, 2009 23:43:07 GMT
Sometime's the pleasure's in the anticipation, sin. Patrick, I believe that the turnip is a parsnip. Round this part of the world and in Scotland it's a Swede. Makes some sense, I always thought that mashed [white] turnip was a bit too sharp for Haggis. Cockles of the Heart. Good thought. I have no idea. Must be something that the shellfish get their name from too but I admit to a distaste of things that we can't have been intended to eat when they are so bloody hard to get out of their shell for so little salty rubbery return. Then again, maybe there's some weird sexual attraction there but I've never noticed that men find any more attraction to armoured rubber creatures than women do. |
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Post by everso on Jun 10, 2009 23:45:09 GMT
I thought you were going to say that grapes give you piles. No that's wet grass......... or is it hot radiators? My mum always insisted it was stone steps. |
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