17-03-2016, 06:37 PM
Filthy fruits and vegetables:
https://www.t-nation.com/diet-fat-loss/b...il-veggies
Excerpt:
The Chemical Brothers (and Sisters)
Every year, about 1.3 million pounds of pesticides are used on U.S. crops. That equates to about 6 pounds of pesticide on every acre of farmland.
Of the 35,000 registered pesticides used in this country, fewer than 21% have been tested for carcinogenicity. Fewer than 10% have been tested for their potential to cause mutations and fewer than 40% have been tested for their potential to cause birth defects.
The good thing is that we've banned plenty of pesticides and since we're nothing but savvy businessmen, the U.S. exports between 100 and 150 million tons of these banned pesticides every year to suckers in other countries. Unfortunately, we import 40% of all our fruit and about 12% of all our vegetables back from these countries, so it's fairly certain that we end up eating these banned pesticides anyway.
D'oh!
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- You could wash your fruits and vegetables in a solution containing one teaspoon of dishwashing detergent in a gallon of warm water. Swirl the produce in the solution for 10 seconds, and then rinse thoroughly, lest you prefer your stir fry be flavored with a dash of Palmolive.
- You could peel those fruits or vegetables that are amenable to peeling, thereby mechanically removing most pesticides or chemicals. Similarly, you can discard the outer leaves of vegetables and just eat the stuff inside.
- You could buy frozen or canned fruits and vegetables. The washing and blanching that prepares fruits and vegetables for freezing or canning supposedly removes between 80 and 90% of pesticides. The same concept applies to Biotest's Superfood, a freeze-dried preparation of 18 fruits and vegetables.
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There are lists provided for what is good and what is bad. Also countries that use our foul chemicals. So the same fruit from a different origin might be OK.
I loathe the fact that (a) most who "run the world" are psychopaths, and (b) groups are more psychopathic than even their worst individual members. So we're in REALLY bad shape... And no sane person wants to "do something" about it. As an example, the honey and bumble bees are dying out... slowly but surely going extinct, google "Colony collapse Disorder." And then you can google what they do to healthy bee colonies.... (Kill them.) And what they have in the works already (as of at LEAST a decade ago!) to "help" with the problem they've caused: Robo-Pollinators, micro-drones programmed to pollinate the fruits and flowers in place of the bees.
So we have a manufactured (directly AND indirectly) problem: lower pollination rate due to lack of bees. Caused by rampant use of horrible (to humans and all animals) pesticides. A company (or many) who are ready to exploit this, by adding robots to the mix. Poison going into our systems, which in the future will necessitate medical treatment, and in the mean time make it harder to stay fit (another future medical cost). And our own government is busy killing off healthy colonies! (One wonders if there's a correlation to the more aggressive African honey bee, which can sting multiple times and has found a home to cross-breed with the native honey bee. Maybe the only colonies that remain healthy are the genetically "tainted" ones? IDK.)
ANYWAY... Try to keep eating clean!
Sorry about the rant.
-Dianna
https://www.t-nation.com/diet-fat-loss/b...il-veggies
Excerpt:
The Chemical Brothers (and Sisters)
Every year, about 1.3 million pounds of pesticides are used on U.S. crops. That equates to about 6 pounds of pesticide on every acre of farmland.
Of the 35,000 registered pesticides used in this country, fewer than 21% have been tested for carcinogenicity. Fewer than 10% have been tested for their potential to cause mutations and fewer than 40% have been tested for their potential to cause birth defects.
The good thing is that we've banned plenty of pesticides and since we're nothing but savvy businessmen, the U.S. exports between 100 and 150 million tons of these banned pesticides every year to suckers in other countries. Unfortunately, we import 40% of all our fruit and about 12% of all our vegetables back from these countries, so it's fairly certain that we end up eating these banned pesticides anyway.
D'oh!
___
- You could wash your fruits and vegetables in a solution containing one teaspoon of dishwashing detergent in a gallon of warm water. Swirl the produce in the solution for 10 seconds, and then rinse thoroughly, lest you prefer your stir fry be flavored with a dash of Palmolive.
- You could peel those fruits or vegetables that are amenable to peeling, thereby mechanically removing most pesticides or chemicals. Similarly, you can discard the outer leaves of vegetables and just eat the stuff inside.
- You could buy frozen or canned fruits and vegetables. The washing and blanching that prepares fruits and vegetables for freezing or canning supposedly removes between 80 and 90% of pesticides. The same concept applies to Biotest's Superfood, a freeze-dried preparation of 18 fruits and vegetables.
____
There are lists provided for what is good and what is bad. Also countries that use our foul chemicals. So the same fruit from a different origin might be OK.
I loathe the fact that (a) most who "run the world" are psychopaths, and (b) groups are more psychopathic than even their worst individual members. So we're in REALLY bad shape... And no sane person wants to "do something" about it. As an example, the honey and bumble bees are dying out... slowly but surely going extinct, google "Colony collapse Disorder." And then you can google what they do to healthy bee colonies.... (Kill them.) And what they have in the works already (as of at LEAST a decade ago!) to "help" with the problem they've caused: Robo-Pollinators, micro-drones programmed to pollinate the fruits and flowers in place of the bees.
So we have a manufactured (directly AND indirectly) problem: lower pollination rate due to lack of bees. Caused by rampant use of horrible (to humans and all animals) pesticides. A company (or many) who are ready to exploit this, by adding robots to the mix. Poison going into our systems, which in the future will necessitate medical treatment, and in the mean time make it harder to stay fit (another future medical cost). And our own government is busy killing off healthy colonies! (One wonders if there's a correlation to the more aggressive African honey bee, which can sting multiple times and has found a home to cross-breed with the native honey bee. Maybe the only colonies that remain healthy are the genetically "tainted" ones? IDK.)
ANYWAY... Try to keep eating clean!
Sorry about the rant.
-Dianna