We all know what MSG is. How many of us know that when we see "Flavor Enhancers" and even "Natural Flavors," that means MSG? How many of us realize that "sugar" in its natural form has essentially vanished from our lives and has been replaced by "high-fructose corn syrup" about which I won't even comment but urge readers to Google this product and read themselves....
Does anyone stop to wonder why all of a sudden there are people who must eat only gluten-free foods, who cannot eat dairy products because they're lactose-intolerant, who can sicken and possibly even die from exposure to even the barest bit of peanuts. Why was this not true for our parents' generation and those before theirs? Let's not even get into the existence of growing numbers of different kinds of cancers....
Foods now require a "shelf life," meaning all too often a degree of processing, whether it's bleaching the life out of flour or genetically modifying tomatoes with fish genes, is necessary to avoid too rapid spoilage. We're no longer down on the farm growing and picking and even slaughtering our own. While it's true that "best if used by [date]" is not the same as "turns into poison on [date]," do your own homework and find out what processing food to give it a shelf life does to the "stuff" (for lack of a better word) that we are presented with to put into our bodies!
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