I guess if there was one diet that worked for everyone Glenda, we'd only need one diet book.
Ms Arielle, I tend to gravitate to organic foods myself. My beef is always 100% grass-fed organic (the prices at Aldi and BJ's are reasonable). IMO The dirty dozen veggies must be organic or I won't buy them.
And I steer clear of GMO foods. I have nothing against the concept of GMO, it just the application. They engineer the GMO foods so they can tolerate massive amounts of herbicides like the cancer contributing glyphosate (Round-up). If they engineered the plant to have more nutrients, that would be OK, but instead they modify them for more profits.
On a trip to the People's Republic of China many years ago I saw workers spraying pesticides on the tea leaves. Since then I've decided that organic tea is better, and I drink a lot of tea (green, oolong, and black).
Recently I decided to buy whole bean coffee.
Apparently, it’s a not-so-secret industry secret. According to the FDA’s own studies, up to 10% (and often MORE) of green coffee beans are insect-infested. According to Dr. Emlen, they can’t be processed out, so they simply get roasted with the beans and ground up into them.
From PBS radio show Fresh Air:
Quote:
Imagine yourself relaxing to the voice of interviewer Terri Gross only to hear this anecdote:
Dr. EMLEN: It’s peripheral to what we’ve been talking about but when I was an undergraduate, I was hugely influenced by a professor of mine, a biologist and entomologist named George Ichor(ph), one of the greatest entomologists I ever met. And I remember driving across the country with him when I was a college undergraduate. He was an advisor to me. I was doing research out at a place called The Rocky Mountain Lab in Colorado. And we had to keep going way out our way – this was in the late ’80s, this is before there was a Starbucks on every corner and you can get really good coffee. And he was fiercely addicted to caffeine – to coffee. And we’d have to drive way off the interstate to go find good coffee in that day. I mean, we’d go 45 minutes off our route to go find a place that had whole bean fresh ground coffee. And I remember giving him a really hard time because we were wasting a lot of travel time trying to feed his addiction because he need a coffee every couple of hours. And he finally explained to me he had to drink only sort of whole bean fresh ground coffee. And it was because of cockroaches. There’s a point to this story which is that he found out the hard way from teaching entomology year after year after year, handling cockroaches – people used cockroaches as the lab rat for entomology labs – he got really badly allergic to them. So, he couldn’t even touch cockroaches without getting an allergic reaction. And because of that he couldn’t drink pre-ground coffee. And it turned out when he looked into it that pre-ground, you know, your big bulk coffee that you buy in a tin, is all processed from these huge stock piles of coffee. These piles of coffee, they get infested with cockroaches and there’s really nothing they can do to filter that out. So, it all gets ground up in the coffee…
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https://www.foodrenegade.com/your-c...ground-up-bugs/
Of course this is a tangent and has nothing to do with AA so I'll get back on topic.........
I think the chicken feed might be an AA contributor if I understand this correctly:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16104803
Anyway, I find if I stick to the arthritis/bursitis diet which restricts the amount of both carbs and A.A., neither my inherited bursitis or the arthritis due to a basketball injury bother me. If I break the diet and eat some delicious chicken or egg yolk, I can tell by the next day.
Bob
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