Re Food and health
I still believe its not what you eat but whats in the things you eat and the way its processed, for instance, My Grandparents raised hogs and chickens, The hogs were fed table scraps, peelings etc, commonly known as slop in the South, the chickens ran around and ate bugs and worms and also were fed corn, no antibiotics, no hormones, They killed the hogs once a year, usually at Thanksgiving, then it was cold enough, usually at or below freezing, They salt cured the hams and shoulders"I have the recipe for the cure"and rendered all their own lard, Grandmother never bought any form of shortening until the mid 50s when they quit keeping hogs, They had a milk cow and Grandmother churned all their own butter,and of course with chickens they had fresh eggs, and of course they had a huge garden and canned all kinds of stuff, this diet, while certainly not healthy by todays standards, was in truth very healthy because there were no additives or preservatives, no hormones and no antibiotics..And no fried chicken has ever tasted as good as that chicken freshly killed and fried in a iron skillet with lard.Really, about all they bought was flour, sugar and corn meal.
