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Randy Stankey
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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 11-18-2009 11:28 PM
It's neurosis. They've even got a name for it: Orthorexia Nervosa. AKA: The neurosis of "correct eating."
Too many people have a neurotic fixation with eating the "correct" foods for the sake of fighting off some imaginary health problem that they MIGHT get some time in the future.
It's the same as the bullshit we went through with saccharin in the 1970's. Yes, if you eat saccharin you might have a 200% higher chance of getting bladder cancer but that's only if you drink the equivalent of a can of saccharin sweetened soda every 30 seconds, 24 hours per day, seven days per week, for an entire year. So, if you have a 1% chance of getting bladder cancer before eating saccharin, you now have a 2% chance of getting it. This totally ignores the fact that rats, which were used in the study, don't metabolize saccharine the same way humans do. Therefore the study has very limited validity in humans.
But, NO! Saccharin is "bad" for you so you can't eat it! The government had to try to ban it.
That ban never made it through congress but the "fear" of eating "incorrect" foods lives on!
My point is not about saccharine. It's about the fears people have about the foods they eat and the organizations that prey on those fears for the purpose of making profit.
The CSPI is nothing more than a money making scheme under the guise of a non-profit organization.
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm?oid=13
quote: "www.activistcash.com"
CSPI wants to make money.
CSPI gets over 70 percent of its income from subscriptions to its monthly Nutrition Action Healthletter. Accordingly, much of what it promotes as “science” is often geared more toward selling subscriptions than providing wise counsel. And CSPI has learned that you don’t sell subscriptions with a calm, reasoned approach to nutrition.
The CSPI is nothing more than a bunch of fucked-in-the-head idiots, much the same as, PeTA and the Church of Scientology... Nothing more than schemes cooked up by kooks!
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