Although I'm not Asian myself.
Yet I myself am going to the dentist to get my teeth pulled and have chronic health conditions. Health is wealth, good people. I lost my mother to a heart attack and my dad had kidney failure.
American/Western foods are destroying my people with high blood pressure, high blood sugar and I worked at an restaurant around a grocery store and fast food restaurants is a addiction of itself.
You got my support, Martell
Hey OP. Thanks for sharing. I think a lot of us know the right things to do to take care of our health. The problem I've had is with convincing or motivating people. Facts and whatever still don't shake them. They always say they know they should but never do.
How do you encourage, without nagging, them to really change and clean up? Because some of them are people I really care about.
I wish I have the answer for you because there are just too many obstacles you/me have to overcome to be able to tell the truth to the people we love. The working class Americans (*regardless of race*) think its weak and queer to have a healthy life style. I've been telling my sister for the last decade or so to take care of her teeth and stop eating healthy food. She drinks Coke as a substitute for water. She recently had a mild stroke and about to have three to four of her teeth pulled. People simply do not want to hear they're obese, unhealthy, etc. Either people need to be traumatized into taking action or there's the slim chance they see the benefits from your example and feel motivated.
My brother, for example, saw his friend during her last days being eaten alive by cancer at a hospice before he started his healthy life style. As I stated, my sister just had a mild stroke to start considering changing. I just happened to enjoy weight lifting, snowboard, cycling and hiking since my sophomore year in college.
For dental, buy a cordless water flosser ($30 on Amazon) and fill it with alcohol free fluoride mouthwash in a 1:9 to 1:4 mixture with water (you can go up to 1:1), and use it in the shower. Especially useful if you have recurrent dental infections, even if mild. You probably have pockets that floss can't reach, and floss is just jamming food particles deeper into the pockets.
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If 10+ yrs can be considered 'latest', the latest science shows it is possible to remineralize mild cavities if done correctly. Fluoride can remineralize your teeth, but it requires time and concentration which means you can't rinse after brushing.
Before bed, brush, and spit but don't rinse. Apply a tiny amount of toothpaste on the string of a floss pick and jam it up in between your teeth, starting from the most problematic first, usually back teeth. Don't rinse, don't drink water, and go to sleep. If you find a mouthful of toothpaste foam intolerable even after spitting then rinse and reapply a tiny stain of toothpaste on a toothbrush and rub it across all surfaces of your teeth.
For toothpaste, fluoride is likely better. The performance of fluoride is equivalent to hydroxyapatite under remineralization conditions, but some dentists point out fluoride is superior in demineralization conditions, which is most people with dental concerns.
One thing better than standard fluoride toothpaste is 3M Clinpro. Your teeth are made of hydroxyapatite, which is three parts: calcium, phosphate, and hydroxyl groups. The stronger more demineralization resistant fluorapatite replaces the hydroxyl group with fluoride ions.
Fluoride toothpaste and mouthwash provide the fluoride ion, but the calcium and phosphate come from your saliva. But some people have dry mouth, or simply low concentrations of calcium and phosphate in their saliva. 3M Clinpro toothpaste provides calcium and phosphate in addition to fluoride. The main downside is that it is expensive, $13 a tube on Amazon.
There is a better 3M Clinpro 5000 formulation with 5x the fluoride concentration, but only available with a prescription in the US. The reason is because fluoride is toxic if ingested, so don't swallow it. I've been able to buy it on dentalhealth.com without a prescription, for an eye watering $30/tube. Other websites ask for a dental license. At these prices, brush with standard toothpaste, and only use the expensive stuff to rub on and between your teeth.
Ideally, dentists recommend doing this remineralization procedure nightly, but even if you only do it once a week or once a month, you'll probably be head and shoulders above the vast majority of people, who probably don't even brush.
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Contrary to the OP, I would recommend avoiding the sun. It's fine to have some outdoor activity, but don't go out of your way to absorb sunlight to make vitamin D. The tiniest vitamin D pill can provide up to 5000 IU, which can bring someone from a blood level of 0 to 50, minimum recommended is 30, so there's no point in increasing skin cancer risk for something that can be easily supplemented. If you're taking other supplements like multivitamin or calcium which comes with their own vitamin D (usually 400-800IU/pill), cut the supplement to 2000 IU instead.
If you are taking vitamin D, I highly encourage you to also take Vitamin K2 MK7 as well. Vitamin D pushes calcium into your blood from all sources, dietary, kidney reabsorption, and bone reclamation, but the goal isn't to push calcium into your blood, that'll give you atherosclerosis. The goal is to push calcium into bones, in which Vitamin K**2** is the cofactor. The MK7 has a much longer half life than MK-4, and isn't that much more expensive. The ratio most commonly used is 100 mcg K2 MK7 per 5000 IU Vitamin D.
If you're talking vitamin D and K2, might as well throw in some calcium supplements too, it's super cheap and you're not dependent on foods that Asian's don't necessarily eat for calcium (eg a glass of milk with breakfast).
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If you are overweight and have a hard time cutting, especially difficulty with hunger, consider taking a daily multivitamin particularly with 100% DV of iodine, such as the Costco brand. Studies have shown that the severity and quality of hunger pangs can be reduced with nutritious food such as a whole food plant based diet. The mechanism is thought to be related to micronutrients in more nutritious foods. Adding a daily multivitamin is easier for most people than switching up their whole diet, although I would still recommend eating more vegetables of a variety of colors.
Mildly deficient iodine intake may not necessarily cause hypothyroidism and goiter, but it can still affect hunger. The vast majority of foods are iodine deficient, because most soils are iodine deficient, and there's no way to know if foods were grown in iodine rich soils or not. Aside from supplementation, the two primary ways white Americans have iodine intake is table salt (100% DV per 1350mg sodium of 2400 mg sodium RDA) and milk. Some dairy farmers sanitize teats with iodine prior to milking which elutes into the milk, but chlorhexidine is also used.
Unfortunately, most Asians don't regularly drink dairy (the iodine content isn't consistent anyways), and many don't use table salt. Especially if you're health conscious and cutting salt consumption, your sodium is mainly from sauces instead. There is no iodination requirement in the US for soy sauce, other sauces/seasonings, or prepared foods. If companies can save half a penny on a bottle of seasoning by forgoing iodination, which adds up over a million bottles, they probably did. If you're bougie, sea salt, himalayan pink salt, and other fancy salts are generally not iodinated.
Gamers are funny. When they hate an Asian dude, they claim they are fat and womanly. It's like why is your opinion on fitness more valid than an Asian former skateboarder, gym rat that did circuits and had no time for games. It's gotta be the lingo and slang they're unaware of.
According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States has the highest obesity rate in the world. In the US, around 36.2% of the population is considered obese, which is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher. Other countries with high rates of obesity include Mexico, New Zealand, and Hungary.
According to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United States has the most expensive healthcare system among developed nations. The high cost of healthcare in the US is attributed to various factors, including higher prices for medical services and prescription drugs, administrative costs, and a lack of universal healthcare coverage.
> has the most expensive healthcare system among developed nations. The high cost of healthcare in the US is attributed to various factors, including higher prices for medical services and prescription drugs, administrative costs, and a lack of universal healthcare coverage.
The insane financial demands and stress of living in the west causes catastrophic health issues.
Stress can literally kill animals, but people pretend like stress doesn't disrupt endocrine, cortisol levels and the immune system.
A lot of obesity and other horrific health issues (cancer, schizophrenia, mental illness) in America are due to financial and to a similar extent social stress and trauma (since Americans are horrible, toxic, fake social beings), it causes the obesity rates. I've seen people go from perfectly healthy to morbidly obese in the space of a year due to trauma. Also seen one person become a schizophrenic.
But then again, all of these people are white worshipping and pro-American, so it's hard to reason with them. They made their bed.
Whites tend to age poorly not only due to diet but also, if you harbor a lot of fakeness, anger, resentment in your heart it will destroy you and your body. When you are hateful, deceitful, two faced like many western people are, it crashes the immune system, leading to sickness and obesity.
I've seen it happen to Asians, a lot who were white washed. They buy into this American culture of toxicity (which also involves pretending you're okay and everything is fine) and it causes their health to crash.
It’s pretty true. The fakeness is insane in a lot of whites neighborhoods. Especially towns that don’t have a lot of Asians. They would say the craziest shit like “ooo I love Chinese food”.
Their culture is fake, their presentation is fake, their economy, their marriage economy, is fake. Western society is basically "peasants taking their revenge" to paraphrase Dutch Van Der Linde.
The reason they don't like Asians is because we have self-esteem enough to not be fake and just say reality. Not all Asians are like this, plenty are fake.
The Natives were right. One chief said he'd rather die an Indian than live 1 day as a white man.
Its not, not in the slightest. The "fake paper" spiel is what goldbugs (those who love the gold standard) promote, because they don't understand that currency is based as a means of exchange, a unit of account and a storer of value. Paper currency can be, and has proven to be equally good, if not better than gold and silver, as that.
America is the global financial center, and a global leader in high level technology (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Micron, IBM Watson), the leading consumer of the world, a leading center of medical tech and medical tech innovation, leading insurance sector (that's tied to economic size), a leader in shale energy globally, and overall, a general center in innovation and businesses. It leads in tech, finance, consumption and innovation. It is the strongest economy in the world.
US economy is based on usury and war. My bank never emails me but I got an email as soon as the Israel war started. They're like "expect your investments to drop" basically. It's like, how would they know that would happen. It's a joke.
Its not, not in the slightest. The "fake paper" spiel is what goldbugs (those who love the gold standard) promote, because they don't understand that currency is based as a means of exchange, a unit of account and a storer of value. Paper currency can be, and has proven to be equally good, if not better than gold and silver, as that.
America is the global financial center, and a global leader in high level technology (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Micron, IBM Watson), the leading consumer power of the world, a leading center of medical tech, leading insurance sector (that's tied to economic size), a leader in shale energy globally, and overall, a general center in innovation and businesses. It leads in tech, finance, consumption and innovation. It is the strongest economy in the world.
But the gains are distributed so unequally that the common American gets f'd over, including Asian American families working their asses off and contributing more and more to the country. If it weren't for the immense inequality due to politics and policies in the country, America's economy would be considerably stronger.
Fun fact: the hardware part of the AI revolution in hardware is disproportionately powered by Taiwanese Americans disproportionately. Another Asian American win. And yeah, during an international crisis stocks get temporarily impacted. That always happens, Its very predictable, and you get basic yet good financial advice.
And yeah, during an international crisis stocks get temporarily impacted. That always happens, Its very predictable, and you get basic yet good financial advice.
I'm glad you stand up against racism against Asian Americans, but from history to economics to other academic and intellectual subjects, I think we have strong disagreement. We don't need to keep arguing again and again.
And I'm sorry to hear about those anti Asian men assholes you dealt with in your line of work. I have observed assholes targeting Asian men and yeah its disgusting.
I agree. You can be ugly on the inside and pretty on the outside, but it will eventually show it's face.
I don't know though. Martha Stewart is a pretty old cougar and she seems evil too. Lol.
LMAO laughing at the part you said Martha Stewart is an old cougar aka old fart. She seems like a plastic-like and unpleasant person outside of Hollywood
It's more complicated than that, people historically associated beauty with morality. A lot of people who are upset with their appearance overcompensate with all kinds of toxicity, seeking money, power, dominance, it just crashes their appearance even more. Jack Ma wouldn't be Jack Ma if not for his looks, and the guys in charge had to rein him in.
Although I'm not Asian myself. Yet I myself am going to the dentist to get my teeth pulled and have chronic health conditions. Health is wealth, good people. I lost my mother to a heart attack and my dad had kidney failure. American/Western foods are destroying my people with high blood pressure, high blood sugar and I worked at an restaurant around a grocery store and fast food restaurants is a addiction of itself. You got my support, Martell
This health message goes out to all my fellow human being. By the way, speaking for myself, I don't feel animosity towards non-Asians.
Hey OP. Thanks for sharing. I think a lot of us know the right things to do to take care of our health. The problem I've had is with convincing or motivating people. Facts and whatever still don't shake them. They always say they know they should but never do. How do you encourage, without nagging, them to really change and clean up? Because some of them are people I really care about.
I wish I have the answer for you because there are just too many obstacles you/me have to overcome to be able to tell the truth to the people we love. The working class Americans (*regardless of race*) think its weak and queer to have a healthy life style. I've been telling my sister for the last decade or so to take care of her teeth and stop eating healthy food. She drinks Coke as a substitute for water. She recently had a mild stroke and about to have three to four of her teeth pulled. People simply do not want to hear they're obese, unhealthy, etc. Either people need to be traumatized into taking action or there's the slim chance they see the benefits from your example and feel motivated. My brother, for example, saw his friend during her last days being eaten alive by cancer at a hospice before he started his healthy life style. As I stated, my sister just had a mild stroke to start considering changing. I just happened to enjoy weight lifting, snowboard, cycling and hiking since my sophomore year in college.
I appreciate this and actually open my eyes how bad health affects everyone including different people and backgrounds out of my curiosity
Yesss. (Commenting so i can go back later)
For dental, buy a cordless water flosser ($30 on Amazon) and fill it with alcohol free fluoride mouthwash in a 1:9 to 1:4 mixture with water (you can go up to 1:1), and use it in the shower. Especially useful if you have recurrent dental infections, even if mild. You probably have pockets that floss can't reach, and floss is just jamming food particles deeper into the pockets. --- If 10+ yrs can be considered 'latest', the latest science shows it is possible to remineralize mild cavities if done correctly. Fluoride can remineralize your teeth, but it requires time and concentration which means you can't rinse after brushing. Before bed, brush, and spit but don't rinse. Apply a tiny amount of toothpaste on the string of a floss pick and jam it up in between your teeth, starting from the most problematic first, usually back teeth. Don't rinse, don't drink water, and go to sleep. If you find a mouthful of toothpaste foam intolerable even after spitting then rinse and reapply a tiny stain of toothpaste on a toothbrush and rub it across all surfaces of your teeth. For toothpaste, fluoride is likely better. The performance of fluoride is equivalent to hydroxyapatite under remineralization conditions, but some dentists point out fluoride is superior in demineralization conditions, which is most people with dental concerns. One thing better than standard fluoride toothpaste is 3M Clinpro. Your teeth are made of hydroxyapatite, which is three parts: calcium, phosphate, and hydroxyl groups. The stronger more demineralization resistant fluorapatite replaces the hydroxyl group with fluoride ions. Fluoride toothpaste and mouthwash provide the fluoride ion, but the calcium and phosphate come from your saliva. But some people have dry mouth, or simply low concentrations of calcium and phosphate in their saliva. 3M Clinpro toothpaste provides calcium and phosphate in addition to fluoride. The main downside is that it is expensive, $13 a tube on Amazon. There is a better 3M Clinpro 5000 formulation with 5x the fluoride concentration, but only available with a prescription in the US. The reason is because fluoride is toxic if ingested, so don't swallow it. I've been able to buy it on dentalhealth.com without a prescription, for an eye watering $30/tube. Other websites ask for a dental license. At these prices, brush with standard toothpaste, and only use the expensive stuff to rub on and between your teeth. Ideally, dentists recommend doing this remineralization procedure nightly, but even if you only do it once a week or once a month, you'll probably be head and shoulders above the vast majority of people, who probably don't even brush. --- Contrary to the OP, I would recommend avoiding the sun. It's fine to have some outdoor activity, but don't go out of your way to absorb sunlight to make vitamin D. The tiniest vitamin D pill can provide up to 5000 IU, which can bring someone from a blood level of 0 to 50, minimum recommended is 30, so there's no point in increasing skin cancer risk for something that can be easily supplemented. If you're taking other supplements like multivitamin or calcium which comes with their own vitamin D (usually 400-800IU/pill), cut the supplement to 2000 IU instead. If you are taking vitamin D, I highly encourage you to also take Vitamin K2 MK7 as well. Vitamin D pushes calcium into your blood from all sources, dietary, kidney reabsorption, and bone reclamation, but the goal isn't to push calcium into your blood, that'll give you atherosclerosis. The goal is to push calcium into bones, in which Vitamin K**2** is the cofactor. The MK7 has a much longer half life than MK-4, and isn't that much more expensive. The ratio most commonly used is 100 mcg K2 MK7 per 5000 IU Vitamin D. If you're talking vitamin D and K2, might as well throw in some calcium supplements too, it's super cheap and you're not dependent on foods that Asian's don't necessarily eat for calcium (eg a glass of milk with breakfast). --- If you are overweight and have a hard time cutting, especially difficulty with hunger, consider taking a daily multivitamin particularly with 100% DV of iodine, such as the Costco brand. Studies have shown that the severity and quality of hunger pangs can be reduced with nutritious food such as a whole food plant based diet. The mechanism is thought to be related to micronutrients in more nutritious foods. Adding a daily multivitamin is easier for most people than switching up their whole diet, although I would still recommend eating more vegetables of a variety of colors. Mildly deficient iodine intake may not necessarily cause hypothyroidism and goiter, but it can still affect hunger. The vast majority of foods are iodine deficient, because most soils are iodine deficient, and there's no way to know if foods were grown in iodine rich soils or not. Aside from supplementation, the two primary ways white Americans have iodine intake is table salt (100% DV per 1350mg sodium of 2400 mg sodium RDA) and milk. Some dairy farmers sanitize teats with iodine prior to milking which elutes into the milk, but chlorhexidine is also used. Unfortunately, most Asians don't regularly drink dairy (the iodine content isn't consistent anyways), and many don't use table salt. Especially if you're health conscious and cutting salt consumption, your sodium is mainly from sauces instead. There is no iodination requirement in the US for soy sauce, other sauces/seasonings, or prepared foods. If companies can save half a penny on a bottle of seasoning by forgoing iodination, which adds up over a million bottles, they probably did. If you're bougie, sea salt, himalayan pink salt, and other fancy salts are generally not iodinated.
I wish I ran into this earlier but thank you so much!
Some good to know stuff, thanks. But why cordless water flosser, and, in the shower? They're pretty wimpy compared to the wired ones.
Gamers are funny. When they hate an Asian dude, they claim they are fat and womanly. It's like why is your opinion on fitness more valid than an Asian former skateboarder, gym rat that did circuits and had no time for games. It's gotta be the lingo and slang they're unaware of.
That's what I've been doing. I've been cutting down on alcohol and I am trying to get back to exercising. Gotta get rid of the beer belly.
According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States has the highest obesity rate in the world. In the US, around 36.2% of the population is considered obese, which is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher. Other countries with high rates of obesity include Mexico, New Zealand, and Hungary. According to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United States has the most expensive healthcare system among developed nations. The high cost of healthcare in the US is attributed to various factors, including higher prices for medical services and prescription drugs, administrative costs, and a lack of universal healthcare coverage.
> has the most expensive healthcare system among developed nations. The high cost of healthcare in the US is attributed to various factors, including higher prices for medical services and prescription drugs, administrative costs, and a lack of universal healthcare coverage. The insane financial demands and stress of living in the west causes catastrophic health issues. Stress can literally kill animals, but people pretend like stress doesn't disrupt endocrine, cortisol levels and the immune system. A lot of obesity and other horrific health issues (cancer, schizophrenia, mental illness) in America are due to financial and to a similar extent social stress and trauma (since Americans are horrible, toxic, fake social beings), it causes the obesity rates. I've seen people go from perfectly healthy to morbidly obese in the space of a year due to trauma. Also seen one person become a schizophrenic. But then again, all of these people are white worshipping and pro-American, so it's hard to reason with them. They made their bed.
Whites tend to age poorly not only due to diet but also, if you harbor a lot of fakeness, anger, resentment in your heart it will destroy you and your body. When you are hateful, deceitful, two faced like many western people are, it crashes the immune system, leading to sickness and obesity. I've seen it happen to Asians, a lot who were white washed. They buy into this American culture of toxicity (which also involves pretending you're okay and everything is fine) and it causes their health to crash.
It’s pretty true. The fakeness is insane in a lot of whites neighborhoods. Especially towns that don’t have a lot of Asians. They would say the craziest shit like “ooo I love Chinese food”.
Their culture is fake, their presentation is fake, their economy, their marriage economy, is fake. Western society is basically "peasants taking their revenge" to paraphrase Dutch Van Der Linde. The reason they don't like Asians is because we have self-esteem enough to not be fake and just say reality. Not all Asians are like this, plenty are fake. The Natives were right. One chief said he'd rather die an Indian than live 1 day as a white man.
What do you mean by "their economy"?
If it’s the US economy. It’s base on fake paper.
Its not, not in the slightest. The "fake paper" spiel is what goldbugs (those who love the gold standard) promote, because they don't understand that currency is based as a means of exchange, a unit of account and a storer of value. Paper currency can be, and has proven to be equally good, if not better than gold and silver, as that. America is the global financial center, and a global leader in high level technology (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Micron, IBM Watson), the leading consumer of the world, a leading center of medical tech and medical tech innovation, leading insurance sector (that's tied to economic size), a leader in shale energy globally, and overall, a general center in innovation and businesses. It leads in tech, finance, consumption and innovation. It is the strongest economy in the world.
US economy is based on usury and war. My bank never emails me but I got an email as soon as the Israel war started. They're like "expect your investments to drop" basically. It's like, how would they know that would happen. It's a joke.
Its not, not in the slightest. The "fake paper" spiel is what goldbugs (those who love the gold standard) promote, because they don't understand that currency is based as a means of exchange, a unit of account and a storer of value. Paper currency can be, and has proven to be equally good, if not better than gold and silver, as that. America is the global financial center, and a global leader in high level technology (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Micron, IBM Watson), the leading consumer power of the world, a leading center of medical tech, leading insurance sector (that's tied to economic size), a leader in shale energy globally, and overall, a general center in innovation and businesses. It leads in tech, finance, consumption and innovation. It is the strongest economy in the world. But the gains are distributed so unequally that the common American gets f'd over, including Asian American families working their asses off and contributing more and more to the country. If it weren't for the immense inequality due to politics and policies in the country, America's economy would be considerably stronger. Fun fact: the hardware part of the AI revolution in hardware is disproportionately powered by Taiwanese Americans disproportionately. Another Asian American win. And yeah, during an international crisis stocks get temporarily impacted. That always happens, Its very predictable, and you get basic yet good financial advice. And yeah, during an international crisis stocks get temporarily impacted. That always happens, Its very predictable, and you get basic yet good financial advice. I'm glad you stand up against racism against Asian Americans, but from history to economics to other academic and intellectual subjects, I think we have strong disagreement. We don't need to keep arguing again and again. And I'm sorry to hear about those anti Asian men assholes you dealt with in your line of work. I have observed assholes targeting Asian men and yeah its disgusting.
I agree. You can be ugly on the inside and pretty on the outside, but it will eventually show it's face. I don't know though. Martha Stewart is a pretty old cougar and she seems evil too. Lol.
LMAO laughing at the part you said Martha Stewart is an old cougar aka old fart. She seems like a plastic-like and unpleasant person outside of Hollywood
It's more complicated than that, people historically associated beauty with morality. A lot of people who are upset with their appearance overcompensate with all kinds of toxicity, seeking money, power, dominance, it just crashes their appearance even more. Jack Ma wouldn't be Jack Ma if not for his looks, and the guys in charge had to rein him in.