"phil..c" > wrote in message
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> Given that what we cook and discuss on here relates to food and by
> logical extension soils
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> This may interest some of you
> Cheers
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> Why depleted soils are making us sick
> MATT CAWOOD
> 25/03/2009 7:15:00 PM
> When Bathurst doctor Carole Hungerford graduated in the late 1960s, breast
> cancer was late-life disease diagnosed in about one in fifteen women.
>
> "Now the surgeons are saying it's one in eight, perhaps one in seven," Dr
> Hungerford said.
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> "And a lot of it is the young person's cancer, the aggressive one.
>
> "We didn't even look for it 40 years ago."

That's because we were too busy banning eggs & butter

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> What's happened? According to the author of Good Health in the 21st
> Century, we’ve stuffed up.
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> "Nature didn't stuff up, we stuffed up. Modern humans have been on the
> planet for 200,000 years, and in the last few decades have we thrown out a
> lot of challenges to the body," she said.
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> "We've started putting chlorine in the drinking water,

Communist plot!

sulfates in the wine, additives in the food

More Communist plots!


> … people don't know where they are getting their headache from because
> they are reacting to everything."
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> At the same time, Dr Hungerford says, people are getting less nutrient
> from their food.

That's cause they're chewing less.


>
> "Some of us are eating good food grown in bad soils, or good food that is
> not fresh. More of us are eating bad food that is neither fresh nor grown
> in good soils."
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> Dr Hungerford will be participating in an online question and answer forum
> on The Land's website between 12 and 2pm Friday.

Oh goodie gumdrops!!!!!!!!!!!!