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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (88041)	11/5/2004 6:51:27 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I tried to find out more about peanuts and peanut butter on the web, and was only slightly successful. There are two different things going on with peanuts--very severe allergies, and the liver cancer thing. I read an article in some sort of health publication recently that said peanut butter did NOT cause liver cancer. The toxins everyone is referring to seem to exist more in moldy unroasted peanuts, in primitive conditions. Now American children have been eating huge amounts of peanut butter for at least several generations. There does not seem to be any huge epidemic of liver cancer, except for the alcohol-related kind perhaps. Health food stores always have carried many peanut butter products, including fresh-ground peanut butter machines and organic varieties in jars. It seems illogical to think they would be promoting such a poisonous substance. It is true that most of the peanut butter Americans buy is really garbage food, full of dextrose and hydrogenated oils. This is not a healthy product! I am still unconvinced that organic peanut butter, made with peanuts and salt only, is toxic. Is there a nutritional expert in the house? A doctor with knowledge in this field? A better web searcher than I am, with more time to gather information? I would really love a definitive answer to this question.