“if only we could cross back to ancient times, without industrial pollution, eating organic foods and drinking mountain water, would have lived a long and healthy life.”
That's a big mistake。
Bad corn
In an ancient age with no preservatives, no refrigerators, no running water and no antibiotics, the word “purely natural” is essentially a proxy for “lifeful”. Those “technologies and hard work” that you are avoiding are precisely the “bulletproof vests” that modern people wear. You don't believe me? Look at the end of the poem. You'll see。
A meal of pure nature has become dov's death. Arguments
In 770 a. D., five years in the middle of the summer, hunan zhengyang was hit by a hundred-year-old flood. Sixty-one-year-old dov, who fled with his family, was trapped in an isolated highlands along the river, where they remained for nine days。
The great poet, who lived in exile, is already starving and without the strength to raise his hand. When he heard about it, he quickly sent someone to send a gift of “carbon in the snow”: an entire roasted beef, plus a bottle of his homemade white wine。
The hungry duft for nine days was looking out, and he ate all over. But he didn't think that this seemingly life-saving meal was the last meal of his life. During the night, duf died of a violent illness and was 61 years old。
Many in the hereafter lament the end of dov and feel that he died of hunger. However, according to modern medical historians, the direct cause of dov's death is likely to be acute food poisoning。
The problem is on that piece of roast beef that's not added to nature。
In the summer, the sun rises to above 35°c, and the air is so wet and hot that water can come out. There are no refrigerators, no cold chains, much less potassium pear acid and sodium dehydrate, preservatives that inhibit bacteria. The beef was roasted in the kitchen of the county governor, and the boat was swung in the duffling flood for at least six hours。
The surface of the meat looks intact, it's just a little darker, it's a little heavy, but in the microworld, a deadly carnival has begun. The most horrific of these is botulinum, which produces a botulinum toxin that is one of the most toxic substances known in nature and which cannot be destroyed by cooking for 10 minutes at 100°c. Ingestion of 0. 1 ug is sufficient to cause death。
Let's say the pot of white wine made of pure grain. Old-age food storage conditions are extremely poor, and stowage and bad tides are common. The ancients cannot afford to throw away bad food and often mix it with good food to make wine. And wine from this grain containing a great deal of oxytocin, this is a primary carcinogen, which is 68 times as toxic as arsenic and causes liver cancer directly from chronic drinking. Moreover, there are no modern distillation and filtration processes in ancient times, and there are significant amounts of harmful substances such as methanol and steroid oil in the wine, which can cause not only liver damage but also blindness。
Bad buns
Drinking water can kill you
Even if you've escaped the spoiled wine and meat, the ancients drink the water。
You think the ancient rivers are clear and sweet? It was a movie. There were no sewers in ancient times, no sewage treatment systems, no living waste in urban and rural areas, no human or animal excreta, all dumped at will by roadside or in rivers。
Although the tang lixing act expressly states that “the lewd man, the staff 60”, which means the dumping of garbage and sewage outside the wall, is 60 boards, the law is a dead letter at the grass-roots level. During the rainy season, sewage, faeces and rotting animal bodies in the streets were washed into the river. The “pure natural springs” you drank might have just floated upstream over a dead pig and could have just fallen down the toilet。
The water is filled with cholera, typhoid, dysentery and innumerable eggs, as well as blood-sucking eggs. There have been countless large-scale plagues in history, such as the one that led to the “failure of zombies in the home and the family in the house” and the plague that engulfed the country in the coming days, which was essentially caused by water pollution。
Worse still, ancients rarely drink water. It was not until the song generation that the drinking of water became widespread in the cities, and the majority of people in the vast rural areas had been drinking raw water directly until recently. The probability of infection is conceivable。
The 18th century european urban street illustration, the ancient face of the true restitution of the "water stream, garbage everywhere", is highly similar to the ancient health conditions in china
The curse that the royal family cannot escape: it's all by luck
Maybe someone would say that it's dubert's bad luck, so just keep an eye out for ordinary people
Don't be naive! Even a royal family with the best resources in the world can't escape the “pure natural” poison。
In the case of the 89-year-old “long-lived emperor”, he had 17 sons in his life, 7 of whom had not lived before 4 years of age; 10 daughters, 5 had not lived before 2 years of age. He was only 25 years old。
The royal family has the best food, specialized medicine and the strictest standards of hygiene, which makes the day worse for ordinary people. According to research by demographic historians, the rate of infant mortality in china's ancient age ranges from 30 to 50 per cent for a long time and even over 60 per cent during periods of war and plague. In other words, for every two children, one will not survive。
The emperor's uniform
As for average life expectancy, it is even lower:
• summer: 18 years old
Qindai: 20 years old
East han: 22 years old
• tang dynasty: 27 years old
• song dynasty: 30 years
• clean-up: 33 years old
Why is ancient life so short? In addition to war and famine, the biggest killers are food security and infectious diseases. In ancient times, an ordinary diarrhea could cost human lives; a cold could lead to pneumonia and no cure。
One of the greatest inventions of mankind is the preservative that you've rejected
Now many talk about preservative color change and think that preservatives are used by bad merchants to harm people. But you know what? If you don't have preservatives, more than 90% of the food you eat now will disappear。
Bread will go bad in three days, milk will become acid in 24 hours, canisters will go bad in a week, and even the mineral water that you drink, may breed bacteria more than three days after it is opened. Without preservatives, it is impossible to buy fresh fruit from all over the country in supermarkets, not to eat a six-month-long shelf life, or to hoard food during an epidemic。
Preservatives have the effect of inhibiting the growth and reproduction of harmful micro-organisms and extending the shelf life of food while ensuring its safety. Moreover, our country has very strict national standards for the use of preservatives, which, as long as they are food products produced by regular manufacturers, are in a safe range and do not cause any harm to the human body at all。
Rather than concern about legally added preservatives, there is a concern about three non-products known as “zero additions” to “purely natural”. Instead of rigorous microbicide and detection, they are more likely to breed bacteria and endanger health。
We now say “return to nature”, but many forget that primitive nature has never been a gentle mother, but a cruel hunter。
Symptoms of food poisoning
It took humanity thousands of years to invent preservatives, refrigerators, running water, antibiotics and “technologies and hard work” to recover the right to life from the claws of nature. A bottle of clean mineral water that you can drink now, food that you can buy in supermarkets from all over the world, special effects that you can take when you're sick, which were luxury things that the emperor never enjoyed in ancient times。
So let's not blindly miss the ancient “pure nature”. The good of ancient times lies only in our romantic imagination; the bitterness of ancient times is the real struggle for survival. Next time you lose the chemical name on the table, think about duft's ending and the ancient children who won't survive。
We owe it to modern technology, which has prevented us from countless deadly crises in primitive nature。
What rumors have you heard about pure nature
