Originally posted by howard
EVERYTHING now a days is both good and bad for you. might as well just eat whatever you feel like.
the one the that is bad for you is all the crap they put in our food to make it last longer. the chemicals they put into fruit to keep them ripe, the processed crap we eat all the time. when none of this existed there was no cancer and a lot less heart disease.
they've said eggs and red meat are bad for you. well then how come all the farmers who eat eggs and bacon in the morning and steak at night all live to be 80-90. i'll tell you...cause its fresh food, they get it straight from the ground or cow or chicken or whatever. but by the time it gets to the rest of us theres nothing good in it anymore.
they say that when you pick a corn cob its nutritional value decreases 30% every hour
if you want to be healthy the best thing you can do is grow a garden, not only is it 1,000 times healthier but its cheaper too.
The part about farmers putting stuff on fruits is not true. My dad grows grapes for a living, and he uses no preservatives. They don't go bad for about 2 weeks!
We know a lot of farmers also (grape, date, orange, lemon, watermellon, lettuce) and there aren't any chemicals bad for you that go on any of the fruits.
About eating steak, eggs, etc. I totally agree. I personally dont eat eggs much, and when I do, its usually just the egg whites for protein. We usually get our meat at a local meat market where they cut it fresh, its damn good!
Most of the bad stuff is in packaged items, such as Chips, Packaged Chicken, Sodas, Cookies, etc.