Does anyone know why boxed/canned organic raisins list "than 1% Organic Sunflower Oil" as an ingredient, while conventional raisins do not? Why do they need to add oil to raisins anyway? If the oil is not listed on the package, is it safe to assume that there is no added oil? All canned food is coo...

Oranges are factory farmed?
Don't tell me I have to boycott THEM now. *grumbles under her breath and pouts*
I'll have nothing left to eat soon.

Welcome to the forum Dawn *wave*
Can I call you Aurora?

Everyone I've heard of who follows a raw paleo diet says they do better with organ meats. Wild animals and human hunter gatherers (past and present) eat the organs first, and sometimes throw away the muscle. Vondyplan says he only ever eats organic organ meats because non organic make him ill. Toxin...

I've been eating smoothies for the past few days (because of Chin Chin and her evil smoothie thread) and now I have acne on my forehead as usual. :( I never get acne unless I eat blended banana (and who wants to eat a smoothie without banana? :cry: beautiful beautiful banana.) but it is worse when b...

I mean that it's good to keep questioning things. Questioning is necessary for learning and discovering, for finetuning, etc. It also helps to prevent dogmatic and tunnel-vision views, if coupled with an open mind and common sense. Something which unfortunately isn't usually stimulated. Asking ques...

Was going to post some quotes from this article, but I think I'll just be lazy and give you the link :wink: First read: "Toxicity of Unsaturated Oils" then read: "The Benefits of Coconut Oil" (which talks more about unsaturated fat than it does about coconut) Be good boys and girls and do your homew...

Yo Momma's so fat she got hit by a parked car?

Lol!

and God Bless America!

oh ok
having lived most of my life losing the battle i forget some people may be breeding war heroes.

Vonderplanitz also says you mustn't blend eggs or even whisk them with a fork. I can't remember why.

There's a substance in frogs legs that completely protects against heart disease.

Well amongst those scandinavian children studied, those with myopia (nearsightedness) were taller.

Insulin could be one way to cause it -
presumably there would be others, just as smoking is not the only way to cause lung cancer.

Do the Chinese have a higher incidence of myopia?

somebody remove Curlygirls post immediately! She's advocating eating beef

avalon wrote:There's a really cute little sticker elephant on CurlyGirl's guitar....look at it, so cute

ahhhhhhh I see.
said the blindman who couldn't see at all. Oh no you don't said the deaf and dumb man. I'll have you a fight said the man with no arms, and the man with no legs ran away.

Which claim is exotic?

I haven't a hope of finding the report I read a few years ago, but here's an article about short sightedness and insulin.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/heal ... 531782.htm