"Sea salt and Himalayan salt are better because they contain trace minerals." Trace. Not biologically significant, just trace. Good source of salt, but so is table salt.

LOL!

Billy HW, please set up a Journal. We'd like to have a place to put our random responses to your entertaining/informative posts. We're off to Canada today, where the chief hazards are butter tarts and poutine.

But it's pink! What if I just sit in a room full of the stuff?

"I just started eating keto, but I'm really craving <your choice>, and I can't stand it!"

I didn't really take the time to learn or understand how to improve my life in terms of what I eat. Maybe if I just think good things, I can still shovel in all the junk I've grown (heh) accustomed to...

I just started eating keto, but I'm really craving poutine, and I can't stand it!

"Non-GMO".

People have been genetically modifying food for eons. None of the fruits and vegetables you have today are "natural", and they don't bear the slightest resemblance to their wild ancestors. GMO Golden Rice is going to cure blindness in tens of thousands of Filipino children. Your body doesn't know or care if the proteins, fats, and carbohydrates came from a GMO, once it's broken down into its constituent parts like amino acids and glucose and fatty acids. I don't care about GMO, I care about all the freakin' sugar you are putting into EVERY, SINGLE, GODDAMN thing.

Good one...and I think we're on the same page with so much of this stuff!

"I buy Organic."

I want to get the best quality, but I'm easily manipulated by marketing hype. Consequently, I'm happily paying high prices for my food to feel better about myself.

This is a mistake that one sees often from those who "don't care" about GMO foods. Yes, man (and Nature herself) have been manipulating foods for eons; you are absolutely right about that. Manmade and natural selection have been working on getting vegetables & fruit larger & sweeter; animals have also been bred for different purposes through selective breeding, and natural accident. GMO, however, are modified by inserting the genes of foreign organisms into something completely different. Whether you "don't care" or not, the fact that fish genes (for example) are now part of some veggies is a fact. It is also a fact that such a thing could never happen in nature. Breeding a larger, sweeter tomato is relatively easy; you just choose the largest and the sweetest that you have to become the "parents" of the new seed. Breeding a Cockapoo is easy; you just choose a Cocker Spaniel & a Poodle to be the parents of the puppy. Getting wheat to be resistant to Round Up has to be done in a lab.

You certainly could make a plant worse for humans through selective breeding if you chose the wrong traits to select for. I think that's true of gmo as well. If they bred or genetically modified a cauliflower to be super high in plant estrogens, I'd probably be a bit leery of that. I don't think it's the tool, it's the use of the tool.

It's also a mischaracterization. The fish-to-tomato gene process was done on an experimental basis, it didn't produce the desired effect, and the experiment was halted years ago. There is nobody shoving fish DNA into plants, and there are no such products commercially available today.

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"X pounds gone - FOREVER!"

I think you've won the internet for today.

It sure is expensive to eat healthy!

I work in a grocery store and hear this all the time, mostly from people who have switched from conventionally grown junk food to organically grown junk food.

Another one I hear from people who have tried LC -

It's too expensive to eat Low Carb - I can't afford to eat steak every day!

Funny how those people ignore the fact that there are many, many LC protein choices out there, all of which are less expensive than steak, and some of which cost as little as $1-$2/lb. (chicken, tuna, eggs, ground beef, etc)

Oh yes, I hear this so often, but as soon as they go off their diet, every pound comes back, usually bringing a few friends (more pounds) along with it.