I went to my bookshelves and reached for my favorite book on nutrition, “Let’s Get Well”, written over 50 years ago by the great Adelle Davis.

Bertha

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Page 336, “Let’s Get Well” by Adelle Davis

"The multibillion dollar refined-food industry has gained such power that it keeps people in ignorance and literally controls the health of our nation. Its relentless radio, television, newspaper and magazine advertising reaches like the life-crushing tentacles of an octopus into every home. Half the space in our beautiful markets is given to health-destroying products which fill shoppers’ baskets to a frightening degree. Hundreds of magazines and newspapers depending on advertising income from the foodless food industry have carried articles and syndicated columns_ clever mixtures of truth, misinformation and propaganda _ particularly designed to prevent the slightest interest in nutrition from interfering with enormous profits."

"The refined-food industry, by giving untold millions, also controls a vast amount of nutritional research. Much of it is valuable indeed, but information that might harm sales goes unreported and problems whose solution could decrease profits remain uninvestigated."

[Adelle Davis graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, took postgraduate work at Columbia University and the University of California at Los Angeles. She received her Master of Science degree in biochemistry from the University of Southern California Medical School.  Later on she worked as a consulting nutritionist and planned individual diets for more than 20,000 individuals suffering from almost every known disease. She later gave up consulting work to devote her time to her family,writing and lecturing]

Originally written by John Bunch on November 21, 2008 1:02 AM .. and I don't consider that to be that healthy (particularly if you factor in all that second-hand smoke you get in a typical German restaurant !).

 

Do Germans smoke inside a restaurant? Gee...

America has an incredibly diverse diet and you can eat every kind of food in the world in most moderate to big cities.

True. However, I would appreciate if you could give me the name of just one restaurant where I can eat *good* Chinese food. I have been to at least 5 different Chinese food restaurants until I decided to throw in the towel. The amount of fat and tendon in the chicken is close to scandalous. In Uruguay there are very good Chinese restaurants and if you happen to find the smallest bit of tendon, they will apologize and give you your money back. What is it with US Chinese restaurants?

Re hoping that Obama "will change the way Americans eat", I really hope that was a joke.

I wish Obama would mess with the way Americans eat and also with the refined-food industry, the pharmaceutical industry and the medical "industry". Someone has to put these crooks in their place. 

Bertha

Dear All,

Off topic posts often have the same natural flow found in real life conversation which is one of the reasons why I generally do not mind or even bother commenting on off topic posts. However...

Did anyone read Post #162487 ? If not, please do.

Nanna

Nanna,

Since the last on-topic post here was Post #162334, would it be possible to simply move the entire pages that followed to the destination you have specified?

Jacek (guilty as charged)

I am guilty myself...

I wanted to avoid bad feelings and therefore tried a little humour (not my strong side) rather than move posts. But, yes I can move the posts...

Should I?

Nanna