Processed meat causes cancer, declares World Health Organization
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My father is 86 and still alive. He stopped eating all red meat the the late 70s.
My mother ate nothing but salads, cottage cheese, fruit, fish, chicken...."dieted" her whole life and always watched what she ate. Died of a heart attack in her 60s.
My father is now 80. His blood work is perfect. His colon is polyp-free. He is very, very mentally sharp. He does complex mathematical problems in his head "just for fun". For his entire life, he has eaten, and still eats daily, one 1/3 pound hamburger EVERY. DAY. OF. HIS. LIFE. He despises chicken. He does not care for vegetables. He grows a vegetable garden, but refuses to eat any. He gives them all away to the neighbors (or me).
Forgot to say that he also loves his summer sausage. He goes through one of those summer sausage "logs" about every 2 weeks.
Leave my bologna, hot dogs, sausages, and salami alone you god-damned pc-ers!!!!
That's all I gotta say....
Hyperbole. They're not going to touch your bologna, hot dogs, sausages, and salami. But they are going to give people a little educational information so they can make their own decisions based on facts.
My mother ate nothing but salads, cottage cheese, fruit, fish, chicken...."dieted" her whole life and always watched what she ate. Died of a heart attack in her 60s.
My father is now 80. His blood work is perfect. His colon is polyp-free. He is very, very mentally sharp. He does complex mathematical problems in his head "just for fun". For his entire life, he has eaten, and still eats daily, one 1/3 pound hamburger EVERY. DAY. OF. HIS. LIFE. He despises chicken. He does not care for vegetables. He grows a vegetable garden, but refuses to eat any. He gives them all away to the neighbors (or me).
Forgot to say that he also loves his summer sausage. He goes through one of those summer sausage "logs" about every 2 weeks.
My father is in his mid-70s and is still as sharp as a dagger, and still rides his bike some 10-15 miles multiple times per week. For as long as I've known him, he's always been a big steak eater, loves ham, loves pork chops, drinks beer (like 3 a day), and doesn't eat much fruit and vegetables.
He has never had any major illness whatsoever.
I don't each much of that stuff simply out of choice, but have to admit that these studies sometimes make me laugh.
We know nitrates are cancerous. How is this news?
My mother ate nothing but salads, cottage cheese, fruit, fish, chicken...."dieted" her whole life and always watched what she ate. Died of a heart attack in her 60s.
My father is now 80. His blood work is perfect. His colon is polyp-free. He is very, very mentally sharp. He does complex mathematical problems in his head "just for fun". For his entire life, he has eaten, and still eats daily, one 1/3 pound hamburger EVERY. DAY. OF. HIS. LIFE. He despises chicken. He does not care for vegetables. He grows a vegetable garden, but refuses to eat any. He gives them all away to the neighbors (or me).
Forgot to say that he also loves his summer sausage. He goes through one of those summer sausage "logs" about every 2 weeks.
We are all individuals and we all VARY, don't we … ??? So, yeah … Advice given to an entire population based on "studies" may -- or may not -- have anything to do with ME or YOU …
(One of my favorite such population cognitive dissonances is the well intended advice, "Don't bother buying a *Powerball* ticket … You have a better chance of being hit by lightning than winning at *Powerball* …" … But … Ummmmm … The very same wise advisers will tell you, "GET OFF THE LAKE; GOLF COURSE; PLAYGROUND … !!! There's a storm, and you could be hit by lightning … !!!" … I dunno … *shrug* ...)
Unhealthy drinking water affects children in different ways than it does adults. There is cause for special concern for the health of children who drink tap water. Legal standards for most waterborne contaminants generally have been set based on the health effects of pollutants on average adults; consequently, the health of millions of people -- including infants, children, pregnant women and their fetuses, the elderly, and the chronically ill -may not be protected. To compound matters, infants and children drink more than two and a half times as much water as adults as a proportion of their body weight.[9] An infant living solely on formula consumes about one-seventh of its own weight of water each day, which would correspond to approximately three gallons of water for a 155-pound adult man.[10]
Monsanto and the European Commission (EC) have known about birth defects since the 1980s. Industry studies found statistically significant skeletal and/or visceral abnormalities as well as reduced viability and increase in spontaneous abortions in rats and rabbits exposed to high doses of glyphosate. Lower doses were later shown to cause dilated hearts. The EC dismissed all the findings.
Independent studies have since found caudal vertebrae loss in rats treated with sub-lethal doses of the herbicide; as well as craniofacial abnormalities, increased embryonic mortality and endocrine disruption, abnormal onset of puberty, and abnormal sexual behaviour and sperm count in male offspring of mothers exposed during gestation.
GM soybean-fed female rats gave birth to excessive numbers of severely stunted pups, with over half of the litter dead by three weeks, and the surviving pups were sterile.
Non-mammalian animals exposed to glyphosate resulted in increased gonad size, increased mortality, craniofacial abnormalities correlating with abnormal retinoic acid signalling, and reduced egg viability.
In vitro exposure to glyphosate resulted in endocrine disruption and death of cells of the testis, placenta, and umbilical cord
Arsenic is naturally present at high levels in the groundwater of a number of countries.
Arsenic is highly toxic in its inorganic form.
Contaminated water used for drinking, food preparation and irrigation of food crops poses the greatest threat to public health from arsenic.
Long-term exposure to arsenic from drinking-water and food can cause cancer and skin lesions. It has also been associated with developmental effects, cardiovascular disease, neurotoxicity and diabetes.
The most important action in affected communities is the prevention of further exposure to arsenic by provision of a safe water supply.
U.S. POPULATION EXPOSURE TO NITRATE IN DRINKING WATER
Populations living in agricultural areas typically have the highest exposures to drinking water contaminated with nitrate, with households using private wells for their drinking water often having exposures several-fold above households using public supplies. The United States (U.S.) Geological Survey assessed available private well measurements across the U.S. between 1970 and 1992 and found that 9 percent of samples exceeded the regulatory limit for nitrate /3/. In agricultural areas, it is estimated that 22 percent of private wells exceed the MCL in contrast to less than five percent of public water supplies. As nitrate levels in water resources have risen, cities like Des Moines, Iowa have been forced to use expensive energy-intensive treatment systems to remove nitrate in order to comply with the MCL. With the increasing production of corn for fuel, nitrate levels in our water resources will likely continue to increase, resulting in higher exposures. When nitrate levels in water supplies are below the MCL, the primary source of individual exposure to nitrate comes mainly from diets high in green leafy and root vegetables; average daily intakes have been estimated to be in the range 30-130 mg nitrate/day /5/. Drinking water can contribute the majority of nitrate intake when levels are near the MCL /6/.
We only get to eat a finite number of meals in this life. It's important to enjoy each one.
That's what I think. Sure there's more to life than food but food is part of it. I would love to travel more and part of the traveling experience is to eat the food of the area to me which isn't always healthy.
Unfortunately I feel like I can't eat anything I want because I have gastritis. I think while food can be bad..I don't think it's the worst thing you can do at least not by itself. The worst thing aside from being addicted to drugs would be stress. It's a shame because stress is pretty much unavoidable. I'm sure my diet did not help but I think if I didn't have so much stress in my life my diet wouldn't have been an issue. I think if you can exercise regularly, do not over eat too many times and manage your stress then you have a good chance of being able to eat what you want provided you do not have genetic disposition to illness.
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