touch213 69M
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8/16/2006 9:23 am
Food and whats for the future


I have my cabinets stocked with various foods and my freezer stocked with different foods.. and sometimes even buying vegetables..it's really not known where they are grown or what is in the soil where fresh vegetables are grown... the various meats we eat are grown so quickly, we can"t even be sure what in them... in some places the water table is messed up, so I drink only bottled water.. never tap water.. I will have to start cooking also with bottled water..
I wonder how did people survive so long.. back in the very ancient days..say 1000 years ago.. what their diet consisted of.

swallowtsui 51F
1431 posts
8/16/2006 3:11 pm

Touch,

I dined out last night and felt very thirsty even cant sleep comfortable. That's why I am dropping by. Must be the food!

Yeah food/water all the things on earth are worthen until one day all natural food are not natural any longer. To your question, 1000 years ago, ppl's diet were much more healthier, no doubt!


wanchi4
(wanchi kau)
42F

8/16/2006 5:50 pm

Yes a i agree to as today`s food isn`t like yesterdays when it was fresh and know chemicals and so on to make them grow.Thats why i miss back home as all food is fresh from the water .


YangHeMa 68M

8/17/2006 9:52 am

didn't the bible said we will not live beyond 120? wouldn't it be nice to slumber when we have lived our lives not beyond the point when we begin to burden others?

It doesn't matter how well we eat really, cos our days are marked. We'll go when we have to go either very peacefully or abruptedly regardless of how well we repair our protons.

Cheers, live and let live.


touch213 69M

8/17/2006 10:34 am

Yang, that is so true.. when my sister passed, she was the same age I am now.. and I think how beautiful she was, and often wish that she could still be here.. to enjoy so many things.. sometimes I can be riding and think.. Oh, how I wsh she was her to see this or that.. but.. her days were not to be.. I recall her telling me.. in the last day.. how.. she just wanted to be able to get up and walk and sit outside.. such a beautiful sime desire.. she would aly in her bed, and look out the doors of the facility at the lawn area, and would ask me.. had I re-done her lawn because it was so beautiful.. I'd simply tell her yes.. and she'd smile..
some days she was so weak she could not raise her hand.. but when I'd go to give her water, she would not let me, unless she could have her hand at least touching the cup, as if she could feel like she was at least helping herself.. God, she was beautiful.. she would take off her oxygen, and then I don't know where she'd get the strength but she would not let me put it back on her, and then I'd talk to her and slowly she'd let me put it back on..
I order's hers and things from china and even called the doctors there, to tell me about the herbs, it was I think 4 or 600$, but I order it, and it allowed her to eat, and also stopped some of the coughing..I only wish I'd found it earler..

But we can only do the best we can do and eat what we think is the best of what we have available.. and enjoy our lives..

my sister's life taught me so much.. and I love all that is and was her life.


touch213 69M

8/19/2006 7:17 am

A mix of bacteria-killing viruses may be sprayed on cold cuts, wieners and sausages to combat common microbes that kill hundreds of people a year, federal health officials ruled Friday.

The ruling, by the Food and Drug Administration, is the first approval of viruses as a food additive, said Andrew Zajac of the Office of Food Additive Safety at the agency.

Treatments that use bacteriophages to attack harmful bacteria have been a part of folk medicine for hundreds of years in India and for decades in the former Soviet Union.

The approved mix of six viruses is intended to be sprayed onto ready-to-eat meat and poultry products, including sliced ham and turkey, said John Vazzana, the president and chief executive of Intralytix, which developed the additive.

The viruses, called bacteriophages, are meant to kill strains of the Listeria monocytogenes bacterium, the food agency said.

The bacterium can cause a serious infection called listeriosis, primarily in pregnant women, newborns and adults with weakened immune systems. In the United States, an estimated 2,500 people become seriously ill with listeriosis each year, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those, 500 die.

Luncheon meats are particularly vulnerable to Listeria because after they are bought they are typically not cooked or reheated, which can kill harmful bacteria like Listeria, Mr. Zajac said.