Originally Posted By: Mr Nice
Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
Don't eat anything that is sealed in a package, frozen, modified, enhanced, improved or that contains any chemicals, additives, antibiotics, growth hormones or other drugs, fillers or corn sugars and especially avoid GMO's.
Food all by itself is good for you. Oh, and water, too. Get as close to the source as possible.
Doesn't fresh produce has GMO's and grown with fertilizer and pesticides ?
Fresh Poultry, pork and beef has antibiotics and growth hormones??
Easier said than done. You either have to grow all this in your own organic farmland/garden or know someone who does, and be billing to pay the much higher food costs to get it. And even then, unless you inspect the process, you are taking the seller at their word.
Poultry is not normally injected with antibiotics or hormones. Not hard to find free ranging chickens outside the cities. Beef is another story. That's usually heavily injected with stuff. Grass fed beef is probably the only smart way to go...though it can easily double to quadruple the price of the meat. I've seen some studies that being 100% strictly organic w/o any additives doesn't add all that much more (if any) to our lifespans. We have so many other sources of stress/oxidants that food alone might not save us (ie genes you were born with, sunlight/UV exposure, chemicals in the environment from the home to your industry exposures, radiation from numerous sources, stress of every day life, sleep quality, exercise quality, stimulants (alcohol, prescription drugs, caffeine, illegal drugs, cigs), etc. All we can do is minimize our risk factors to the best of our ability. The genes, those we're stuck with.
Like Socrates said, "food is medicine." Though if he lived today, he wouldn't say that...lol. Maybe he'd say, "if you eat today's typical foods, you'll need medicine."
