I agree Marilyn. I think that is why we have so many problems today. Artificial flavors and colorings, antibiotics and hormones, pesticides, dyes, etc. all contribute to a lot of society's problems and diseases. Notice how few people had these same illnesses 100 years ago? Too many packaged foods in my opinion.
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The Atkins diet has been proven to be a great and healthy way to lose weight, but some medical professionals said all that beef caused hardening of the arteries. Turned out it was FEEDLOT beef, who are fed antibiotics, growth hormones and corn, that caused the hardening. Grass-fed beef doesn't do that. Man has once again messed with nature and we suffer the consequences. We only have grass-fed meat in our house. It's expensive, but it's healthy, and doesn't support the inhumane feedlots and factory farms.
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. Isaiah 40:8
You're right, butter isn't our enemy, it's margarine that's the artery clogger. I was reading the other day about all the puss found in the milk of cows who have been injected with hormones. They thing is these farmers think they're preventing that by putting antibiotics into the animals. They're only creating super strains of bacteria that develop immunities to antibiotics. Just went to a seminar to learn about how our foods are destroyed by all kinds of pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, etc. I didn't do a garden my first summer here, I had just moved in and didn't have time to full with one. But the second year, I had a great garden that gave me enough fruits and vegetables that lasted me the whole fall and winter seasons. I didn't have one last summer because of the cancer, and I wasn't feeling that great. I went to the doctor's today, I have an upper respiratory infection from a virus strain that is not of the flu strain. I have a bacterial infection including bronchitis. So I am prescribed a steroid to help the inflamed respiratory system, an antibiotic, and, get this, cough medicine with, and I hear it's better than the Recipe, codeine in it.