Sadly nutrition among kids is so poor that many are incapable of understanding much of what they are taught. Low achievement is inextricably linked to poor diet.
This has been a growing problem which has gone hand in hand with a growth of inequality over the last 40 years.
It would be better that kids were given a mid-morning milk based vitamin and mineral drink to supplement the pizza, soda and burger diet that is the bane of so many fat underprivileged children.
I agree. Ask any kid nowadays what the five food groups are and they will answer pizza, burgers, breaded fish, breaded chicken and cola.
I wonder how many would know the difference between a parsnip, a turnip and a radish?
Joking aside this has serous implications for cerebral development.
Ah, Adam Curtis! That’s the man! The best documentarian of our era!
Lev, please tell us the distinctions among parsnips, turnips and radishes and how these distinctions could benefit our mental health.
Because then you wouldn’t come across as an urban chav, an embarrassment, a social class Muishkin despises, because it reminds him of where he came from. The middle classes wouldn’t look down on you.
He’s a left wing snob, fueled by his own self-loathing.
I didn’t get that from what Lev wrote.
Turnips are more bitter, radishes are more spicy, and I can’t recall what parsnips taste like. Such organisms are also hazardous to cats. I’m not sure what this has to do with anything, but perhaps Lev wishes to emulate the chef in town, the gay man of Eureka village.
What did you get?
That not being able to tell a turnip from a radish will bar you from a career in chemical engineering?
At least 20% of the population get no health benefit from n hours of vigorous exercise a week.
Because of poor genes.
It might very well be significantly higher.
Let Lev speak for Lev.
So far the future of therapy has been met with negative opinions–such as therapists in cahoots with pharmaceutical companies and nutrition dependent on toxic ingredients. Is there any hope at the end of the tunnel? Does anyone see a way out of this mess?
As I’d said before, this is a simple case.
Mental health is synonymous with…
youtube.com/watch?v=wDK6ZeOg7P8
Lyrics
BLACK SABBATH “Sweet Leaf”
When I first met you, didn’t realize
I can’t forget you, for your surprise
you introduced me, to my mind
And left me wanting, you and your kind
I love you, Oh you know it
My life was empty, forever on a down
Until you took me, showed me around
My life is free now, my life is clear
I love you sweet leaf, though you can’t hear
Come on now, try it out
Straight people don’t know, what you’re about
They put you down and shut you out
you gave to me a new belief
and soon the world will love you sweet leaf
Hell, this is no joke. The pharma companies of the world claim otherwise, and you know why… this is a simple case!
I would suspect that if the ingredients in marijuana have the curative powers you suggest, it would have been exploited by the pharmaceutical companies long before now. They would have been the first to legalize it and to determine dosage and sales.
The syllogicians (pardon my generalization) behind the big pharma firms are just like the old syllogicians.
Though they like and crave for the Rings of power, they can’t stand the idea of the 1 Ring to rule them all.
In other words, why stop the windfall of profits from the many futile drugs by risking “1 drug to rule them all”. Especially given that they risk becoming laughing stocks once it’s discovered that they’re isolating and rebranding something natural and selling it at a high price. Especially given that this is the most ubiquitous plant and who will buy that medicine when you can just pick up that plant???
thus the propaganda:
dailymail.co.uk/health/artic … mless.html
Read the comments. Insightful.
Given how politically/monetarily hot this topic is, the Big Pharma companies are desperate when it comes to this topic. They’ll even kill a man to “prove” their anti-leaf stance.
bbc.com/news/world-europe-35320895
They might even declare me a threat for talking like this, here. I’m risking life and limb to reveal all this 
What of those of us for whom marijuana does nothing? I’ve tried Thai sticks and brownies. Neither affected me. The long range, curative effects on these is still a subject of debate. I think marijuana should be legalized. Some states are moving toward that position. It is certainly less harmful than tobacco or alcohol.
One can brew their own alcohol or grow tobacco plants. I suspect that if cannabis had curative possibilities, the big pharms would latch onto it and make a monopoly of its production and distribution. It would then be cheaper to buy weed from a store than to grow your own. In any event, much pecuniary rewards are lost in the present system.
History repeats itself. Cannabis is as alcohol was during prohibition–illegal, but readily available to anyone who wants to use it. Only its curative powers are discussed here, not the fact that breathing any kind of smoke affects ones lungs. Put marijuana in brownies, and I’ll buy them.
Unfortunately, there are no panaceas. What works for one may not work for another.
ah, but panacea is precisely the word to describe it
Try, your Chi energy will return.
Hey man, you into poetry? Maybe we should change the topic, briefly, to that.
Show me yours.
I dabble in poetry too, some might call it a bit impious though… Check it out:
djedefsauron.net/index.php?o … Itemid=147