Tag: food poisoning

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  The other day, a young woman who had come out of the local Safeway with groceries stopped me in the parking lot as I was getting ready to go inside the store. She was concerned about the way her fish smelled, and wondered what my thoughts about the matter might be. Preview Open

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Why Processed Foods?

 

A major study has been published linking processed foods of all kinds to cancer. This being the case, why would anyone ever eat processed foods?

It has been a long time, almost 100 years, since people had to worry all the time about the food they ate being spoiled or contaminated. In those times this problem was just a given. Babies dying from being fed raw cow’s milk, people dying of food poisoning, spoiled meat, or any number of other things, was just a feature of life. At one point, it is estimated, 30 percent of the people in London were suffering from one form of gastrointestinal disease or another and almost all of this from bad food. People died from this all the time.