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Originally Posted by foodmasochist
i just can't buy that fruit is bad. It grows ON A TREE! It's natural!
So does laburnum, but that's poisonous! There's a certain amout of correlation between things that are natural and things that are good for health and weight loss, but I never understand this kind of argument. Salmonella, E coli, staphylococcus, foxgloves - all natural, all potential killers. Antiretrovirals - all completely synthetic, save lives. In the past it's been our ability to preserve and process foods which has led to the success and thriving of the human race, yet it's been hounded as being bad, bad, bad now that we are in a position where the preservation of food has led to an excess of food availability.
Salting our meat, pickling our veg and making jam out of our fruit kept us alive through lean winters. Like everything else we need to be smart about our choices, but I don't buy it that natural is necessarily better just on the basis that it's natural. Especially natural medicines - OK so evening primrose oil is natural on the plant, but it's not natural to farm it, harvest it, roll it out of the plant and package it inside a capsule, so why is it still "natural" when it's in a plastic pot of capsules?