What
do Bears have to do with Spontaneous Combustion? Well, it has been said if
you surprise a Bear in its cave during hibernation -and with cubs- you will receive an unfriendly combustible reaction. However, that is not what this post is about. I thought the image of the Bear more appealing than those that coincide with this topic. What I want to pass along to you is that a human-being actually has the ability to spontaneously combust; physically burst into flames. Clearly, humans have 'one up' on the Bear...hands down.
This
topic, though gruesome, points to the extreme effects of what an excess accumulation of acid
can have on your body. So what causes human spontaneous acid
combustion (SAC)? The answer according to Dr. Youngs' research...
...an
acidic lifestyle and diet which gives rise to an increase in body
temperature or heat combined with body oxygen and the fuel from
metabolic and dietary acid will start a body fire witnin - death by
spontaneous combustion.
There
you have it! The probable cause for SAC, as I'm calling it, is the
over acidification of the body. Yup! I was laughing at this point,
not at the horrible tragedies of anyone who has lost their life from
SAC, but the idea that something of this nature could happen at all. Right now you might be thinking the same way I was when I first read the explanation for SAC, “And there's another good reason to
alkalize your body Ollie” (don't forget to scratch the head). -I'm
a fan of Laurel and Hardy...and for that matter I should also mention
I'm a fan of the Marx Brothers. So you can see where my thoughts
ventured while digesting this information.
What Causes Spontaneous Human Combustion -Heat, Oxygen and Acid
What Causes Spontaneous Human Combustion -Heat, Oxygen and Acid
I
was shocked to just read that a person can explode into flames
unexpectedly leaving little for loved ones to recover if at all, but its true. Most
recently, this past Monday, it happened to a 65 year-old man.
Man,
65, believed to have died from spontaneous acid combustion after a
pile of charred remains were found and no trace of fire source or
other damage. Police
believe a man may have died from spontaneous combustion after they
found his burned body in his home but no other fire damage or
evidence of accelerant use. Sequoyah County authorities are
determining the circumstances surrounding the death of 65-year-old Mr. V. after his charred remains were found at his Tulsa home
on Monday.
After neighbors saw smoke coming from the house they called the fire
service... They soon realized it was in fact a body believed to
have died from spontaneous acid combustion.
Sequoyah
County: Authorities are attempting to determine the circumstances
surrounding the death of 65-year-old Mr. V. after his charred
remains were found at his Tulsa home on Monday
Expert:
Sheriff Mr. L. said the way the victim's body was burned was
inconsistent with an accidental fire - such as from a cigarette
dropping.
Sequoyah
County Sheriff R. L. said: 'This is very bizarre. You’re
thinking someone poured something on him, but there was no fire
source. 'The body was burned and it was incinerated. I think there is
only about 200 cases (of spontaneous combustion) worldwide. I'm not
saying this is what it is, but I haven't ruled it out.'
Sheriff
L. spent about 20 years as an arson investigator for the Fort
Smith, Arkansas Police Department, and said he had never seen
anything like it. -Photo showed the floor below the body was
not damaged and there was no sign that any accelerant was used.-
Authorities
said the man had a history of heavy drinking and smoking, according
to Tulsa
World. But
L. said the way his body was burned was inconsistent with an
accidental fire - such as from a cigarette dropping. Family members
said they noticed the back window of the man’s pickup truck was
busted out. An autopsy is being performed to determine the cause of
death.
In
December 1956, Virginia Caget of Honolulu, Hawaii, walked into
the room of Mr. Y. S. K. to find him enveloped in blue flames. By
the time firemen arrived on the scene, Mr. K. and his easy chair were
ashes but nearby curtains and clothing were untouched by fire, in
spite of the fierce heat that would have been necessary to consume a
human being.
On
July 2, 1951, Mrs. M. R.'s remains, which were largely
ashes, were found among the remains of a chair in which she had been
sitting. Only part of her...remained.
There
have been a number of documented cases where police have found
corpses burned almost to ashes but no burned furniture around them.
Temperatures of 3,000 degrees would be required to burn a human body
to this extent, yet in these cases only smoke damage is reported.
Puzzled
scientists have come up with the ‘wick theory’ to explain such
events. The theory is that the human body can become an ‘inside
out’ candle. The person’s clothes are the wick, while their body
fat is the wax or flammable substance, that keeps the blaze going.
Limbs may be left intact because of the temperature gradient, with
the bottom half of the body being cooler than the top. A grisly aside
is that greasy stains left after such an event could be a residue for
the person’s body fat. The combustion would not be ‘spontaneous’
however, because it would need an external source to start it off,
such as a cigarette. Some have postulated that static electricity
could cause the needed spark. A body would take around five hours to
burn in this way to ashes. Victims are often elderly, sick, or under
the influence of an acidic beverage like alcohol, which might explain
why they would not have been able to escape.
Charles
Dickens provides a very graphic depiction of the death of the
shopkeeper Mr. Krook by spontaneous combustion in
his 1852 novel Bleak House,
where the author does away with the alcoholic rag-and-bone man Krook
by making him mysteriously burst into flames. Dickens had done his
research: in the 1850s, the main theory used to explain these
occurrences was acidic alcohol -that, if you drank enough, it
seeped into your skin and made it possible to catch alight if you
brushed past a flame.
(Reference: Tulsa World, Dr. Young)
The
good news is SAC is preventable! There are foods that can create a
highly acidic environment in the body if consumed regularly in large
quantities, or if they're the sum total of your diet. In any case,
you should consider eating more alkaline meals. You should also
strongly consider drinking your greens and minerals, also +Drink Your Greens and Minerals! There are many supplements under “Overstock Sale Items” that can
assist in extracting the acids from all areas of body. I also suggest
you start learning how to drink 6 liters of water daily (alkaline
water preferably). Proper hydration exchanges fluids and removes
accumulation.
The
following list of foods will increase body heat and acidic fuel for
starting a good body fire and therefore should be eliminated from the
diet in the prevention of sickness and disease, including the
increased risk of spontaneous human combustion.
- Alcohol
of any kind
- Energy
drinks
- Black tea
- Soda drinks
- Beef, chicken, pork and eggs
- Fermented foods like soy sauce
- Cheese and other fermented dairy products like cottage cheese, Skim Milk and Yogurt
- Corn and corn derivatives like corn syrup that are high in fructose including agave which is 90% fructose
- White and brown sugar
- Beans and white rice
Learn more about Alkaline-Acidic foods
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I reduced names to initials to remove focus from the individuals and place it on the phenomena. See article through Tulsa World link for further details.
Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things blog hop xo
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