One never knows where they might learn the shocking truth. That’s what makes life interesting. Allow me to elaborate.

It has long been my theory that ancient civilizations might have been more intelligent than ours in a variety of areas. For example, we consider ourselves to be a medically superior because we can transplant hearts and create drugs that’ll reduce cholesterol. While centuries ago they didn’t need to transplant hearts or reduce cholesterol because they didn’t eat the same processed goo that we do. So who is more intelligent?

If you look at photos from the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s in the United States, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who is overweight because apparently food wasn’t their fetish.  

Today, in any group photo, unless you’re looking at a soccer team, basketball team or track team, almost everyone is stretching the fabric around their waistline.

At some point we as Americans have evolved into a pill-popping, quick-fix society that eats, drinks and does what it wants and then depends on pharmaceutical companies and surgeons to bail us out of whatever health issues arise.

Some years ago, while visiting with a chiropractor in Littleton, Colo., he revealed to me that he’d found the miracle cure for the common cold. I was expecting it to be some elaborate and expensive drug. Instead he told me it’s baking soda. 

I found this interesting, so I did a little more research and discovered that baking soda also has many more health advantages.  For example, did you know that baking soda is a renowned antacid that, if you add it to water, will form bubbles that’ll relieve a bloated stomach because it triggers burping?