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Rudolph Rigger's avatar

I once saw a documentary where a nutritionist said something like "if it has a food label don't eat it. It isn't food".

I know it's a bit hyperbolic but I can't help thinking there's more than a nutrigrain bar of truth in it.

Something, clearly, has gone very badly wrong. Not just foodwise but everythingwise it seems.

Autism, diabetes, ADHD, serious food allergies, boys wanting to cut their todgers off and girls wanting have todgers attached . . . and all the rest.

It's almost Biblical in scale.

I've suffered from male pattern blobness all my life, oscillating between being super fit and mr Blobby's ugly twin. If I am a victim it's only of my own stupidity. And yet it does seem harder to resist the rubbish these days. But even with all the devilish temptation and the allure of that synthetic food it's still my responsibility not to shovel the shit in.

The problem is, as you allude to, is that even when you might think you're eating healthy, you're not. I wonder why Gates & Co are so interested in farmland?

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Iris Weston's avatar

Taking responsibility for your own shortcomings is something of a rara avis these days. I salute you.

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