Scam, kidnap by South African police

Scam, kidnap by South African police

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Drinking water
Drinking water. SJ Dodgson. MJoTA 2012 v6n1 p0629

Above, I took this picture from inside a plane, taking off at sunset from New York on my way to Nigeria in Feb 2012. It has all the elements I want to talk about: lots of water, and flying towards the rising sun as darkness descends.

I have recently been reading and hearing about the need to only drink water that is a friendly temperature, a friendly acidity. That if water is not perfect, our blood will turn to sludge. Aaaaggghhh.

Think of a bathtub filled with salt water at room temperature.

Add a teaspoon of fresh cold water. The bathtub water stays the same temperature, and stays salt water.

To the bathtub of salt water, add a bathtub of fresh cold water. The bathtub water spills out, and by the time the waters are mixed, you have water all over the floor, dripping through the ceiling to the kitchen below, and the water in the tub is cooler and less salty.

In the third scenario, start once again with a bathtub of salt water at room temperature. Dump an ocean on the bathtub, which is what happens in a tsunami. The bathtub is now part of the ocean, whatever was in there before is irrelevant.

So that is what happens in our bodies when we drink cold water, alkaline water. We drink a little bit, too small to change our body fluids: nothing happens. We drink a lot: we can change our temperatures, pH, salt concentration. And if we drink too much water too quickly, we can die because sodium has been washed away. Sodium, Na+, is the other atom in NaCl, sodium chloride, which is the main salt in the sea and in our blood. We need it. If we have too much, our blood pressure goes up and up and can kill us.

Not enough sodium stops the traffic of atoms and molecules across membranes in our bodies, and that can kill us.

My most dramatic personal illustration of changing temperature by drinking something was on Jan 20, 2009, when I got up at 3am to drive to Washington DC to be in the crowds when Barack Obama was sworn in as president by Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.

I arrived at a train station in Maryland, parked my car, and waited in the sub-freezing cold for an empty train while filled trains passed by. After an hour I got on the train heading the wrong way, and when it turned around and headed into Washington, I had a seat. But my camera stopped working, it was too cold.

After I arrived near the Mall where masses of people had gathered to witness the inauguration, I walked around and was given a seat by police. Nice of them.

And I got colder and colder, and was so cold my head started shaking. After the parade had started and I decided to head off to a Kenyan Embassy event, even sitting in a warm subway train was not warming me. My head was still shaking, my body temperature had dropped and I could not warm. I found a coffee shop and bought the largest hot coffee they sold, about a liter, and started sipping. That warmed me, I could feel heat returning to my face, to my body, to my arms, legs, hands, feet.

I was fine when I arrived at the Kenyan Embassy bash, and later that evening danced with a packed crowd of Africans celebrating the start of a new era. The first time a man of obvious African descent became leader of a country outside Africa.

And yesterday, when the Supreme Court ruled his Healthcare Reform Act is constitutional, our American president has given us all access to health care. 





This act does not regulate private wells which serve fewer than 25 individuals.
Coca Cola. SJ Dodgson. MJoTA 2012 v6n1 p0624

I love Coca Cola bottles, I love looking at a tall glass of coke with ice swimming around, I love ads for Coca Cola, and I loved seeing the Coca Cola sign on the top of a hill in Enogu, Nigeria, when I was there with Captain Okpe during the Nigerian state burial of the President of the defunct nation of Biafra, General Ojukwu. Look closely at the picture above, zoom in. You will see the Coca Cola sign.

However, drink it? Oh no. Only if I absolutely have to, which is only if I cannot get clean water.

Coke is a fake drink sold on the concept of having fun, and probably these fake drinks are the main cause of obesity and diabetes. Because the most efficient way of becoming obese and diabetic is by drinking water with dissolved sugar.

When I was in Sierra Leone, a bottle of coke was more available and cost less than a bottle of water: Coke is not only good at marketing, they are geniuses in manufacturing, bottling and distributing.

I want Coca Cola to make a soy drink that is cheaper than water and makes you feel you are in a party when you drink it. Coca Cola employs a lot of workers all throughout Africa, I want Coca Cola to continue creating jobs and good health, but not at the price of killing our communities with sugar drinks.