OXIDATIVE STRESS

Hello, my dear friends of life in my heavenly Turkey, whose health is precious, whose hearts are kind, whose souls are beautiful, and who are full of awareness.

Last week, we wrote that trans fats, found in all processed foods and colored carbonated drinks, cause oxidative stress in the body, and that children who consume these products heavily face very serious dangers such as diabetes, cancer, and even neurological diseases. On the day the news was published, we received nearly 500 emails through social media channels.

One of the emails I received caught my attention.

This email was sent to both my social media account and the address on my website. I thoroughly investigated the sender and the address, and I came to a conclusion. Like all our citizens, these parents, who are quite sensitive to the current social and political agenda of our country and who have a very sweet little girl named Defne, wrote to us as follows:

“Stop advertising. What do I need to do to avoid seeing you and other simpletons like you here?”

Defne’s father, who wrote these lines, is, as far as we know, a high school graduate. Her mother studied at the Beyoğlu Maturation Institute. This means that good manners are a value learned not only through education but also through life. How can we pass on values ​​to our children that we ourselves don’t know in our mature years? So there’s no need to beat around the bush. Let’s speak the truth now:

WEEKLY AWARENESS NOTE

Oxidative stress is a serious medical threat that requires the utmost attention. This process, which subtly opens the door to death, especially in our children, is a delicate and insidious medical condition.

You cannot imagine the deep sorrow I felt last week for the parents and their young daughter Defne, who read this “scientifically-oriented” news story but called us “simple” simply because it was published on a platform where the perception of sponsored content exists within the world of internet sensations.

Today, modern science is researching the DISC-1 genes of babies in order to prevent schizophrenia, one of the most severe psychological illnesses, in the womb.

As a nation living on the same land, how do we ‘otherize’ ourselves, and what kind of psychological perception are we forced to live under? What are we dealing with? This is a dangerous and powerful game. When did we fall into such a deep slumber?

Let’s wake up now.

What a pity.

Uğur Uğural