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The Assault on Food

Mrs. Paddy Wrote: Apr 25, 2012 7:49 AM

Name-calling does nothing to add credence to your post. Educate yourself some. Highly recommend Nourishing Traditions (Cookbook). It includes meats not considered 'food' by Torah, but overall is a good book to read to educate yourself on what constitutes healthy food. Where are you getting your information on what is 'good' for you? We have been taught to fear anything not regulated by the FDA. Think about that, some.

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The Assault on Food

Instinct tells us to fear poison. If our ancestors were not cautious about what they put in their mouths, they would not have survived long enough to produce us.

Unfortunately, a side effect of that cautious impulse is that whenever someone claims that some chemical -- or food ingredient, like fat -- is a menace, we are primed to believe it. That makes it easy for government to leap in and play the role of protector.

But for every study that says X is bad for you, another study disagrees. How is a layman to decide? I used to take consumer...

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