Nutrition and Health - Proven results w/Science

[VXR]

Organic Foods:
Don't waste your money:
Produce/Fruits/Vegetables

If you can afford it:
Eggs
Milk
Beef

I agree. I try to buy organic on any animal product because of hormones and antibiotics.

[JHarris1385]

I talked my mother into a Free Range Turkey for Thanksgiving. Looking forward to it. I have had free range chicken but not a turkey yet.

[JHarris1385]

Another source....

http://moringafact.com/wp-content/up...from-Ghana.pdf

From the Moringa Association of Ghana.

[Grif]

I talked my mother into a Free Range Turkey for Thanksgiving. Looking forward to it. I have had free range chicken but not a turkey yet.

"Free Range" is a joke. According to the FDA to be labeled "Free Range" the animal must have access to outdoor feeding areas. They do not specify how much access. The specifics are not mandated.

So typically what happens is that a large industrial poultry farmer that wants to hike up his prices and justify it by putting "free range" on the label raises the birds as normal, in the same pens and conditions as non-free range birds until adolescence. Then they will open the doors to the barn for an hour or so a day to let them be "free" Woo Hoo!

Problem is, by that time the birds are so acclimated to their cramped conditions that the outdoor environment is scary as hell, so very few ever even leave their cages, let alone the barn. They sit in their cages and eat the free food that they dont have to go out and walk around for just like they have for their entire lives.

I'm not saying most free range producers do this, but I cannot see why they wouldn't and nothing is stopping them from doing so.

Just another example of getting suckered into buying bogus, meaningless products.

Relevant to this thread perhaps?

[Stephen Biko]

Rwanda: planted 400,000 to assist their issues

A country like this would not spend its income on anything like this if it was not seen and witnessed to help.

And a just a couple of countries over, the president of Gambia cured AIDS too!

It appears to be a decent staple crop, but your credulity regarding what constitutes proof is magnificent.

[JHarris1385]

@Grif - I should have stated that its coming from a local small time farm. Luckily it is more free range than that. I honestly did not know exactly all that you stated, when it came to larger free range farms. Thanks for the info.

Here is the link to some turkey I saw sold at a local health food store:
http://www.marysturkeys.com/

[VX KAT]

And a just a couple of countries over, the president of Gambia cured AIDS too!

that's a good one! Yeah, right, I'm sure he's cured AIDS!

[Anita]

Did I mention that I prefer free range gin n tonics?

[Ldub]

Did I mention that I prefer free range gin n tonics?

I like free range toast...

Especially if they replace the raisins with free range crickets...

[VXR]

I like free range toast

I like toast soldiers

[circmand]

As little as 200 years ago every body ate free range and locally produced eevrything as there was no other option. The averag age to live was less than 40 people seldom kept there own teeth for more than 30 years and they smelled bad and grew to very small size. Now in 200 years we have created hormones and vacines and we now grow larger are far more healthy and average life expectancy is 80 years. This new age hippy healthy lifestyle is not a healthier lifestyle or a cure for anything. The only reason we see new and more disease is people now live about 3 times longer than they used to.

[JHarris1385]

Incorrect. Enough said.

[ZEUS]

Incorrect. Enough said.

WHOA! Better mix up your concoction, something is wrong...

[Ldub]

The only reason we see new and more disease is people now live about 3 times longer than they used to.

That, & the fact that everything today is disinfected to the Nth degree...
Kids now-A-days don't get exposed to Near the amount of germicidal nastiness as in decades gone by...poor little buggers gots no immune system I tell you...no built up resistance at all.

Just wait, you'll see... when most of us robust healthy old codgers die off, the zombie revolution is gonna be a cakewalk...

WHOA! Better mix up your concoction, something is wrong...

..

[JHarris1385]

Now I have a little more time on my hands.

1. The average life expectancy on Earth is not 80 but under 70.
2. 40 does not go into 80 3x


The reason the average life was lower in the past in comparison to today is the fact that their was little to no scientific research and developement of things like vaccines which are making us live longer. Old diets were much better than ours currently and your adjectives show just that. To make sure we are on the same page and to clarify, diets of the past did not make them live a shorter life and our current diets do not make us live longer. It is the X factors that play the major role here. It is a fact that lifestyle dieseases are increasing at an unseen pace. We have more control over this than say polio or MMR. Sorta like Ldub said our immune systems are not what they should be since we are not exposed to the same as our ancestors. The mentioned hormones are just one reason that we become ill. All of this further solidifies the idea of supplementing what we consume in order to prevent. Its not a hippy lifestyle, it is simply science and techonolgy.