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Originally Posted by Two Bills
Processed food debilitates, and sometimes a killer..
My wife and I stopped eating it as much as possible, many years ago.
Felt better within months of stopping.
Fresh food reigns. OK!
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True words.
Back in the day we grew, raised or shot most of our own food. It fed a family of seven pretty reliably year-round with trips to the grocery store (25 mile drive one way) maybe once a month for staples like flour, coffee, seasonings, etc. etc. Milk and eggs were from local farmers. Some of our food was "processed" but for the most part we processed it ourselves. Every fall was sausage-making time, we'd shoot a couple of deer, buy a pig from a nearby farmer who raised them and make maybe 150 - 200 lbs. of sausage which we smoked ourselves. Mom would bake five loaves of bread twice a week. And so on. I rarely recall being sick: in fact one cousin who lived nearby (and ate pretty much the same diet as we did) didn't miss a day of school because of illness for eight straight years.
Today I confess to being hooked on Polish sausage (and Andouille sausage which is an acceptable substitute because you can't really get real Polish sausage down here) and Flipper's pizza about once a month. But my wife is a fantastic cook and very little of our diet aside from the sausage is processed. We're both healthy and active septuagenarians.