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The ultra wealthy, like Monsanto employees, enjoy organic diets free of pesticides known to cause illness and hormones shown to induce early puberty in 9yo girls. In china one can find organic farms meant for the ruling class that is literally guarded with armed men. No I do not agree the rich eat the same way as those near the poverty level and middle class.
Something else I have been wondering, un-fermented soy products are full of toxins and corn, even non gmo yellow corn, is often grown in poor tired soil lacking in nutrients. How much illness is due to how we farm and consume our food and how much is attributable to genetic modification?
Personally I consume an organic diet and eat fermented soy 4 times a week. I eat no dairy and don't eat corn or wheat at all. My health is great, at thirty years old i am healthier than my younger brother. All of my family suffers seriously from chronic ailments and obesity. I should mention I eat more pork than chicken and eat about 3 lbs of bacon a week. I eat about 400 calories a day in dark chocolate and drink tons of decaf green tea. My point is not to boast but point out that our understanding of food is obviously limited.
I think if we eat something unhealthy we must balance that with something healthy. For instance dark chocolate along with highly salted food to counteract the rise in bp that occurs, rosemary tea with meats and dairy to prevent extensive spoilage within the gut, ginger with any large meals that usually give us an upset stomach etc. Eating needs to be viewed as medicating ourselves because everything we eat has a biological effect, negative or positive or both.
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