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March 31, 2007
Watching the news is bad for your health.
Apparently watching the news, especially the local news is bad for your health. It produces high levels of cortisol which can damage your heart, weaken your immune system, cause depression, and also cause weight gain.
I wonder if there is a reciprocal relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and the media. The more stress the media produces, the more drugs are sold, which means more money available for advertising. In other words the media is compensated by the pharmaceutical industry, intentional or not for maintaining a state of fear and stress.
I have been promoting the premise that anti-depressants and other mind altering drugs produced by the industry (which are more dangerous then the natural ones) are stifling our evolution and growth as a society. Feelings are the natural indicators of truth and motivators for action bringing change. If we deaden our feelings and emotions then we fail to respond in a way that will eliminate our stresses or transform ourselves to overcome our issues. We lose the ability for our inner indicators to flag fictions.
In other words if we did not have the nation drugged up, we might actually have movements that would focus the energy for change producing positive results eliminating the real sources of stress and conflict.
Apparently magic mushrooms work for depression is without side effects, and the positive results last for months if not years.
Posted by Richard at March 31, 2007 01:32 PM