On Mar 26, 2:27*am, "Dimitri" > wrote:
> "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.
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> > "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.
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> > "We didn't even look for it 40 years ago."
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> 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,
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> Communist plot!
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> sulfates in the wine, additives in the food
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> More Communist plots!
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> > *… 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.
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> That's cause they're chewing less.
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> > "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.
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> Oh goodie gumdrops

Anyone else here read The Omnivore's Dilemma?

--Bryan