After being diagnosed and treated for breast cancer eight years ago at the age of 37 I was astounded to learn that I could prevent a recurrence by changing my diet.

Food Inc. is a hard pill to swallow and I encourage everyone to support it at the box office and keep up the blogging. The Food Inc website http://www.foodincmovie.com is asking for signatures to sign a petition for healthy school lunches. (Our local school lunch offers three types of cow’s milk, including chocolate but no water because the federal government sees no nutrional value in water. Has to do with the industry funded food pyramid of course but that’s another topic for another day.)

Thanks again Julie…

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This is so true, and it seems these days the rich are the only ones who can afford to be healthy and lean. Otherwise you don’t have the luxury of time to cook healthier meals at home, or the money to select better, organic products. I like my junk food from time to time (as long as people stay informed on what they’re really putting in their mouths), but it’s scary when you think about how really, even though technically we have a “choice”, so often the easiest, almost automatic thing for busy people with tight budgets to do is go straight to McDonalds.. and the visits just add up. I was fortunate enough to have enough money to eat fairly well, but I wonder how much damage university students wreck their health with all the cheap food they consume during their undergrad/grad school years.
You also just gotta wonder about the link between the increasingly unnatural way our food is produced and conditions like IBS– even if it isn’t causational, it surely isn’t helping. There’s the hidden cost of our food right there… hundreds of visits to a doctor a year.