[graciegirl]

It is unfortunate, and fortunate that we do not produce food the way we used to.

I ate my grandmothers home canned food for a long time and escaped botulism. The preservatives in today's food aren't good for our gut lining, it preserves it, but it does keep us from getting a some of the nasty stuff that causes illness and it keeps it from spoiling, although the preservatives kind of spoil it in another way..

Poultry grown the way it is now on large farms in an inhumane way is cheaper and more subject to carry salmonella.

But, I said cheaper.

How food is produced and preserved represents part of the problem with nutrition but not all of the problem with good nutrition. We can still make choices and I think education of children on WHAT a nutritious diet is and how to prepare it would be a huge help. A lot of people don't eat right anymore and they really don't like to cook/prepare meals and don't know how to cook/prepare meals and to me that is just as serious an issue.

We have made huge strides in changing babies over from formula to mother's milk but we are still learning how and when and what to begin introducing food to infants and toddlers to avoid later allergies and give them a healthy start. I suspect that giving vitamins to our little ones helped them be healthy and strong and also made them enter puberty earlier.

My grandmother wasn't much of a fan of the germ theory and didn't think a bug was a threat to anyone unless you could swat it. I think children should be taught how to safely buy, cook and preserve food. We are so addicted to fast food and already prepared food because of our hectic life style.

I think that the cooks in our kitchens or the people who pick things up to feed our families throughout this land are acting on too little information or incorrect information

I think it is a cultural problem, a business problem and even a political problem.

Help me down from this soap box. I need a cup of coffee and I have heard that coffee is both good for you and not good for you. I am drinking it anyway.