Firstly i’d like to say that i have no agenda for this blog and exists simply to give me an outlet for some of my thoughts.
I don’t know a lot about naturopathy, but what i do know doesn’t bode well. I listen to a podcast on my zune quite often while i’m walking around campus. Today the topic of naturopathy came up. It arose from a person’s email about her irritating boss’s journeys into pseudoscience and general “whoo-blah.” …Or perhaps “who-plah.” According to the emailer, her boss has recently delved into the world of naturopathy and specifically a rather homeopathic aspect of naturopathy. Apparently the body has a physiological reaction towards certain foods localized to the area most resembling the food itself. Let me give you an example or two: If you eat a tomato it helps your heart, because both your heart and tomatoes have 4 chambers. If you eat almonds it increases the health of your brain, because almonds look like brains. If you cut up carrots just right they’ll help your eyes because the inner cross section of a carrot looks like an eye. These were 3 real examples by actual naturologists. Hopefully anybody reading this can very quickly see that it’s absolutely crazy. Though, i will find it amusing when i catch myself wandering over to the cucumber/banana/hotdog department of my grocery store.
In unrelated news, a recent study has found that watermelons increase sexual stamina.
