Aspartamine seems to be one of the worst, (for staying in the system for lifetimes), in diet soft drinks.
My grandfather loved his salt too. He shovelled it on.
Great idea for people who don't have th space, is to grow them in old tyres or in pots on patios or verandas. Easy to care for. Set according to natural seasons. Organic. No pesticides. Managable. No excess watering. Use your own compost bin, filled with your household raw vegetable waste, eggshells, grass cuttings, etc., to provide and enhance the soil quality. Fresh food every day.....
I do tend to forget city life sometimes, and especailly American city life. I have experienced it. I remember what a shock I got the first time I went to an English, never mind American, supermarket, and saw what they were selling. It took years, when I lived in England, to get healthy diets sorted for my kids.
We do seem to have better laws here to protect us against what you still have to put up with there. Hormones in food, pesticides, colourings, enhancers, preservatives to increase shelf life. I think it is diabolical. Here we still tend to eat fresh food for the most part, so our supermarkets sell it, produced locally. Even most of our take away food is made from fresh healthy ingredients, except for some of the American concessions like Mc D, BK, KFC and such.
I also know that if people weren't so lazy, and cared about what they ate, there would be no market for that stuff, and we would all be eating food that was good for us.
I remember in America, on one of my trips, I tried to find some of the foods I would normally eat here and couldn't find anything like them. There seemed to be something added to everything. The meat in particular was horrendous. It stank. I had a much easier time eating healthy food in Africa than there.
Ireland, being an agricultural country, and a small island to boot, has tight laws concerning food, it's preservation, handling, and what it can contain as an additive. Supermarkets still try to promote the less healthy quick alternatives, but in our towns and rural areas, at least, they are not as prevalent.
I can understand that. It is hard to believe it without seeing it for yourself. It is not about taking less nutrients and digesting more of them though. That is not how it works. As it happens cooking has proven not to take all the nutrients out of the food, as was previously thought, unless you cook them at extremely high temperatures and for too long, which people these days don't do......
One of those sites you gave reference to before actually says that too, if you follow the links to the other pages of the surveys. It says cooking MAY take SOME of the nutrients out of SOME of the food IN CERTAIN CATEGORIES. These are the things most people overlook. Nothing is set in stone. There are no definites in any of these previous surveys.
It is not a black and white subject. (which was my original point). Which is why I contradicted the OP. NO ONE can say definitively that this or that WILL or even CAN cause cancer. To say that, (especially where science has moved on), is an ouright lie.
It also scares people who might think that the OP actually knows what she is talking about, (which clearly she doesn't). She is not a nutritionist, has no degrees, never mind a doctorate on the subject, and therefore has no right to scare people with hearsay and gossip.
There are vulnerable people on here who might think they will die of cancer by doing something that they probably have done all their lives and are perfectly healthy on it.
My grandfather, for instance, ate 3 hot meals a day and enjoyed fresh cold milk, or water , icy from the well, with, and after, each meal. He never had cancer in his life and died of natural causes 3 days before his 100th birthday............
Disproving anything (any supposed truth), only requires one example of where something proved to be the opposite.......
What they are proving is how many nutrients and vitamins we actually absorb from the different methods. The digestive enzymes play a huge part in that process, as opposed to just counting vitamins before and after cooking something.
There are so many beliefs on this that the answers you get here will be all biased and many of them you will find contradictory and confusing, and probably won't help you at all.
This is possibly not the best place to have come for answers.
Vegetables eaten raw give you very few nutrients, hardly any at all. Fact.
To get value from veggies, you have to pulp them then cook them and juices, then eat them. Fact.
Sludge is not a scientific word for any part of the digestive or ingestive process. Fact.
It doesn't matter whether drinks are hot or cold if your meals are not fat based. Fact
Generalisations are not on..........
Telling people they will get cancers if they don't do what you or anyone says, after copying some trash from a non verifiable source is more than scaremongering, it is libelous and dangerous and not ethical when there is no such proof.
I remember my son saying once that if you blinked you'd miss something int he programming world, but it is hard to imagine just how far things have some.
I think it is a good thing for people to be paid to take care of their kids in those first vital months. It is also good that parents get a chance to get themselves over that first 3-4 months of sleepless nights, so they can be fit to work again after that adjustment time off.
Putting that initial imprint on your child's upbringing is vital for family bonding and needs the time for that to happen. That extra time ensures employers the full attention of their employees on their return to work, since they are not lacking concentration through lack of sleep, or worrying about how the child is doing, in either day care, or with a nanny/stranger.
Ther are many other benefits to giving longer leave too but I am sure others will come up with some of them.
It just occurred to me, what some of the contributing factors to this site not being as romantic as it should be, are........
The more I have been here over the past while, the more it begins to look like relationships in the last throws of expiration.
It is like some slum area of a city and being called out to a "domestic" every day. Hardly an atmosphere to build love, romance, or a relationship......
Dog eat dog.
Women in cat fights.
Men asking what is wrong with women.
Women wondering what is wrong with men.
Why is this or that person NOT what I want???
Everyone mulling over what happened to romance and why no one is finding partners.
All of them only looking at negatives...
I think it is a case of familiarity breeding contempt, and heaven knows there is a lot of contempt about for all to see.....
Time for a little respect I think. It goes a long way to making people look good.......
I think all of them celebrate femininity. The details draw the eye to the curve of the waist, the decolletage enhancing the bustline, and those little flirty flares at the hips of the jackets. I love silks too, especially printed or hand-painted raw silks.
Someone has to be sitting typing at the computer that is generating this I think.
I used to be on sites that had computer generated answers from bots, but it wasn't like this. They were set phrases and answers, nothing personal to individuals..........
You might try asking ladylumps who organises many of the Irish ones. You will most likely find her in the IE forums. They are very successful. Oslojente used to organise the intl ones but not sure she is still here on the site any more.
I have been known to have reasonable taste on occassion.....
I spent over 30 years dressing people for occassions in fact, so I like to keep up with designers, and what is fashionable, when I can.
I used to love designing and making clothes, and I miss it these days, except for the odd drama (the real thing in a theatre, not the kind you find on here), I am asked to cater costumes to.
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RE: What is the correct way?..............................
How did you get to be so old, for one so wise?