I am sorry but GMO is actually bad for you.... Monsanto tried to spread gmo corn in France, they tested it on rats for a year and the rats developed multiple tumors the size of an egg.
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#12I thought the article was talking about eating food contaminated with dirt reading its title. Which I happen to agree with, small doses of bacteria do wonder for my immune system. It turned out to be an article of counterargument against antiGMO and organic food though.
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#13"100-percent organic, locally sourced, non-GMO, and free of antibiotics"
Even if it does not have an effect on your health, three of those four (100-percent organic, locally sourced, and free of antibiotics) are at least good for the environment.
The fourth (free of antibiotics) is maybe even good for your health, in the long run: Over-use of antibiotics by farmers (not using them to cure sick animals, but to make animals grow faster) seems to be a big problem (creating resistent bugs)...
Edit (after reading a comment): I left out non-GMO here because I have ready about some evidence that - at least some GMOs - can be better for the environment and for your health.
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#14I eat organic fruit and vegetables mostly to avoid synthetic chemicals, and because you have more heirloom varieties which can offer better taste, but I'm not a vegetarian, so I'm okay with the blood meal and bone meal that goes into the product.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you mean nut, walnut, or apricot as snack: it's good. But Snickers is definitely not.
What makes the fructose in your (selected for top sweetness over hundreds of generations) apricot so different from the fructose in the sucrose of your Snickers bar?
The difference has more to do with fiber, fats, and vitamin s
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#16"100-percent organic, locally sourced, non-GMO, and free of antibiotics" Even if it does not have an effect on your health, three of those four (100-percent organic, locally sourced, and free of antibiotics) are at least good for the environment. The fourth (free of antibiotics) is maybe even good for your health, in the long run: Over-use of antibiotics by farmers (not using them to cure sick animals, but to make an…
Your wording makes it sound like you've accounted for all four of those adjectives, but you haven't done anything with "non-GMO."
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you mean nut, walnut, or apricot as snack: it's good. But Snickers is definitely not.
What makes the fructose in your (selected for top sweetness over hundreds of generations) apricot so different from the fructose in the sucrose of your Snickers bar?
The fiber and polyphenols in the whole fruit modulate the uptake of fructose in the gut.
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#18I am sorry but GMO is actually bad for you.... Monsanto tried to spread gmo corn in France, they tested it on rats for a year and the rats developed multiple tumors the size of an egg.
I hate to be "that guy" but I'd like to see a source on that.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you mean nut, walnut, or apricot as snack: it's good. But Snickers is definitely not.
What makes the fructose in your (selected for top sweetness over hundreds of generations) apricot so different from the fructose in the sucrose of your Snickers bar?
They have different glycemic indices. A bar of snickers or similar will likely have a higher glycemic index relative to that of a fruit, meaning that it has a higher impact on the blood glucose.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you mean nut, walnut, or apricot as snack: it's good. But Snickers is definitely not.
What makes the fructose in your (selected for top sweetness over hundreds of generations) apricot so different from the fructose in the sucrose of your Snickers bar?
In addition to what others have said, I suspect part of the difference is that "all things being equal" the snickers bar and apricot may not be so far apart, but in real life "all things are not equal" and the person that eats a snicker instead of an apricot statistically makes many more decisions in a similar vein.