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“Soda (both regular and diet), Snapple (both regular and diet), and iced tea are high in acid and damage teeth.
If you must drink these liquids, then use a straw.”

SOURCE: Dr. Jacques Doueck DDS (a dentist in Brooklyn, NY) Community Magazine, January 2010, page 66

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks made this statement 13 years ago,
but even after all those years,
his words are still 100% true and 100% relevant.

Five Foods that Kill People
from: Yahoo Shine, year 2011
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{1} sodas, colas, sweet carbonated beverages
{2} potato chips and French fries
{3} candy bars
{4} sausages and wieners
{5} fatty meats, especially fried

Just curious – do you accept these as fact because you read them online? 

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Quick Tips: Which foods are healthier?
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{1} Brown Rice is healthier than White Rice or pasta.
{2} Oats are healthier than Brown Rice.
{3} Black beans are healthier than other beans.
{4} Flounder is healthier than tuna, and salmon is healthier than flounder.
{5} Sweet potatoes are healthier than regular potatoes.
{6} Pure water is MUCH healthier than: soda, tea, Snapple or alcohol.
{7} Eat no more than one whole egg each day; more white parts are safe.
{8} Brown eggs are not healthier than white eggs, just more expensive.
{9} Fresh eggs sink in water; bad ones float.
{10} Olive oil is infinitely healthier than butter. (OxygenMag 2011/8/16)
{11} Herbs and spices are much healthier than salt. (ibid)

Top Five Foods that make people fat, and ruin their health and shidduch chances:
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[1] All sugary drinks, which includes almost every flavored drink.

Crystal Light is NOT SUGAR FREE!
It contains maltodextrin, which is even worse than regular sugar.

[2] Soda is the worst of all sugary drinks.
It makes you FAT, while attacking your teeth and bones.

[3] Potatoes correlate with obesity more than any other one food.
The most unhealthy way to eat potatoes is French Fries.

[4] Peanuts and Peanut Butter will make you fat very quickly.
Most nuts are high in nutrients, but they are also high in fat.

[5] Food eaten late at night will cause obesity and digestive problems.

I suggest that this discussion should return to its original topic.

In the early 2000s, there was a list of over 100 shadchanim, maybe 200+.

I volunteered to update and correct that list,
by calling each shadchan individually,
and asking if they were still active, or not.
I spent several weeks doing that.

I also asked each shadchan questions, similar to these:

[1] What kind of singles do you normally help?

[2] What age range do you work with?

[3] When is the best time for singles to call you?

[4] Do you have more boys, or more girls, or both equally?

[5] Do you work with: Litvish? Chasidish? Modern Orthodox?
Sephardim? Baalei Teshuvah? Gairim? Russians? Divorced?

That list no longer exists because its author abandoned it many years ago.
The author of that list is disgusted by shadchanim, and refuses to call them.
No, I was *** NOT *** the author of that list!!!

Yes, I really did call 50 shadchanim.
(Actually, I called more than 100, but it no longer matters.)

Yes, I really did ask 50 shadchanim:
What are the biggest obstacles that ruin shidduchim?

Yes, 50 shadchanim told me the biggest problems are short boys and fat girls.

If anyone here doubts that what I said is true,
then I invite YOU to call 50 shadchanim,
and ask them all:
What are the biggest obstacles that ruin shidduchim?

This will take time, but you might actually learn something!
You probably won’t do it, because it is easier
to accuse and criticize, than it is to do something helpful.

When I volunteered to update and correct that list,
I did so LeShem Shamayim, to help my fellow Jews.

When I started this discussion, in this Coffee Room,
I also did it LeShem Shamayim, to help my fellow Jews.

When the Talmud and Shulchan Aruch were written,
people did not know the dangers of eating foods
that contain large amounts of:
sugar, salt, cholesterol, mercury, fat, and saturated fat.

Now we know the dangers of eating those things,
but our hashgachah system does not reflect that
new knowledge.

Torah requires all Jews to avoid needless dangers,
and eating foods with unhealthy ingredients
is probably a needless danger.

Former NFL star running back Larry Johnson has posted a series of anti-Semitic tweets, one of which blamed “the Jewish cabal” for human trafficking, sex trafficking, pedophilia, ritualistic child torture, perversion [and] human sacrifice/murder.”

NOTE: Larry Johnson is [or was] African American.

SOURCE: article titled: “Former NFL Running Back
Blames ‘Jewish Cabal’ for Abuses in World”
2020 August 4 www (dot) JNS (dot) org

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Hannah E. Meyers said:

A few weeks ago, Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving returned to the basketball court after his eight-game suspension for promoting the anti-Semitic film Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America — and initially refusing to denounce anti-Semitism.

Before his NBA reinstatement, Irving gave a 21-minute interview in which he spoke about how the controversy affected him: the discomfort he and his family have felt, how he loves all people, and finally, how he didn’t realize that it wasn’t safe to criticize certain groups.

The “deep apologies” that he did offer focused on how thoroughly he was misunderstood, saying that he didn’t “stand for anything close to hate speech or anti-Semitism or anything that is ‘anti,’ going against the human race.”

But Irving’s trespass did not consist in accidentally comporting himself like an anti-Semite. It involved tacitly promoting ideologies that call for violence and harassment specifically against Jews — such as have already been gaining in the U.S.

Over the past few years, attacks on American Jews have risen by almost a third.

Thirty-two percent of Jewish college students report having personally experienced anti-Semitism. As seen recently in Manhattan’s Central Park and Penn Station, credible threats on Jewish lives are multiplying.

In fact, Irving has neither apologized for any unintended incitement nor even acknowledged the phenomenon of growing animosity and violence toward Jews—especially among American blacks.

SOURCE: article titled: The Need to Curb Black Anti-Semitism
by Hannah E. Meyers 2023 January 5 www (dot) City-Journal (dot) org

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Charles Fain Lehman said:

“Black anti-Semitism is nothing new.

It has appeared in the works of black intellectuals since at least the early-20th-century black nationalist Marcus Garvey, as Elliot Kaufman observed in Commentary, and defined politics in New York City — the American metropolis where blacks and Jews most often rub shoulders — for generations.”

SOURCE: article titled: Black America’s Anti-Semitism Problem
by Charles Fain Lehman 2022 December 21 FreeBeacon (dot) com

“The number of African-Americans with
strong anti-Semitic beliefs remains high at 32%.”

SOURCE: article by Libby Goldberg in
Hadassah magazine, January 2008, page 57

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Marvin Hier said:

“Many Jews have proudly expressed their solidarity for African-Americans in the wake of the horrific deaths of George Floyd and other Blacks at the hands of police.

American Jews, in large numbers, and leaders of the American Jewish community, have been outspoken in their support for racial justice and police reforms.

So we believe it’s fair to ask why there hasn’t been any condemnation or criticism by African-American leaders of Louis Farrakhan’s hateful rhetoric.

Why do they remain silent, when he defames not only Jews but others…”

SOURCE: Who in the Black Community Will Speak out against Farrakhan’s Hate?
by Marvin Hier and Richard Trank, 2020 July 14, Algemeiner (dot) com

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Jonathan S. Tobin said:

“Indeed, the recent surge of anti-Semitic comments from some African-American athletes and celebrities like DeSean Jackson, Nick Cannon and Ice Cube were largely ignored by BLM activists rather than condemned.

While there were some blacks who did speak out, like basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabaar and sports commentator Jemele Hill, they were the honorable exceptions who proved the rule and testified to the acceptance of Jew-hatred among many blacks.

Jewish groups, some of which are diffident about confronting African-Americans about anti-Semitism, aren’t likely to rally BLM advocates to confront this issue, let alone seek its sources, such as the widespread influence of hatemonger Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam.”

SOURCE: Want to fight racism? Begin by resisting BLM ideology
by Jonathan S. Tobin 2020 July 16, JNS (dot) org

Around two days ago, I encouraged the people in this Coffee Room to look at the world from a different perspective, for a few short moments.

I also encouraged the people in this Coffee Room to be sensitive to the feelings of people who are different from us, for a few short moments.

Sorry to butt in but nothing of the sort was apparent in your post. 

THE RESULT: One person understood me.
Everyone else made personal attacks and false accusations against me.
I was falsely accused of being an apikuris, and falsely accused of being a Jew-hater, and falsely accused of being like Haman.

Even in my worst nightmares, I never suspected that the people in this Coffee Room were so completely close-minded and so utterly small-minded, that looking at the world from a different perspective, or being sensitive to the feelings of people who are different from us, is totally alien to them — So much so, that they cannot even begin to understand those concepts, and misinterpreted those things as attacks against them.

NEVER AGAIN will I encourage the people in this Coffee Room to look at the world from a different perspective, even for a few short moments, because now I know that they are not capable of doing so.

NEVER AGAIN will I encourage the people in this Coffee Room be sensitive to the feelings of people who are different from us, even for a few short moments, because now I know that they are not capable of doing so.

However, I will encourage them to do teshuvah for the unjustified and false accusations that they recently made against me. Obviously, I cannot force anyone to do teshuvah.

But I can remind you that “all of G*D’s ways are midah-keneged-midah” (Talmud, tractate Sanhedrin, page 90A). Therefore, if you do not do teshuvah for the false accusations that you made against me, then G*D will allow other people to make false accusations against you. Ch”v

Sefer Chasidim, chapter 208, teaches that each person is ridiculed for the same thing that he ridiculed others for. For example: “It once happened that a man ridiculed a cross-eyed person, and his children were born that way.”

Sefer Chasidim, chapter 209, teaches that:
“Gentiles never did evil [to Jews] until Jews did it to each other first.
They did not disgrace Torah scholars until they disgraced each other first.”
Additionally, Gentiles only burned Torah books AFTER Jews burned the writings of Rambam.

The point that I am trying to make is that G*D does not allow the Gentiles to make false accusations against Jews, until AFTER Jews make false accusations against each other.

(Sefer Chasidim was written by Rabbi Yehudah HaChasid, who was born in year 1150 of the Common Era and died in year 1217 of the Common Era.)

תלמוד בבלי מסכת סנהדרין דף צ/א
שכל מדותיו של הקדוש ברוך הוא מדה כנגד מדה

ספר חסידים – סימן רח
מעשה באחד שנתלוצץ באחד שהיא רואה הבית והעליה כאחד, ונולדו בניו כך

ספר חסידים – סימן רט
לעולם לא יעשו הערלים רעה, אלא אם כן יעשו ישראל תחילה רעה ביניהם זה לזה

Your post came across as very hateful. Instead of cursing people out, it might benefit you to take a look at your presentation and wonder why you got those responses, and what you could have done differently. Kol tuv.

I also remember Rabbi Avigdor Miller [ZTL ZYA]
recommending old books, that were written
before the world became insane.

David Thomas (a retired newspaper editor) said:

“I read old books because I would rather learn from
those who built civilization than those who tore it down.”