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To: Rambi who wrote (19213)	3/25/1998 6:28:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

we use cheap white bread to butter corn. Huh? Why? Why not just roll the ears on a stick of butter? Taht's what my family's always done.

To: Rambi who wrote (19213)	3/25/1998 8:30:00 PM
From: O'Hara	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

><>...Penni, that's too cool...><> we use cheap white bread to butter corn. I love it. Now everytime I see cheap white bread I will remember your post.! You are right,white bread is the lowest of the bread, almost completely void of all that is nutritious. You should feel guilty! poor kids...smile... Rule of thumb- The darker the bread the more nutritious,it's said! Have a good evening Shalom...><> BTW

To: Rambi who wrote (19213)	3/25/1998 11:51:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Penni, I would agree that Wonder Bread, raw hamburger and real butter are not really traditionally thought of as health foods. On the other hand, until very recently ALL margarines were made with trans fatty acids, which have now been implicated as artery cloggers. Only Smart Balance margarine, out here in California at least, is free of trans fatty acids, and it has been introduced only in the last few months. When I was much younger and took a lot of yoga, the local Indian guru who ran the fitness center and taught the classes insisted that all his students eat butter, not margarine, but simply in very small amounts, because at least it was natural and had been eaten for thousands of years, and he turned out to be right. My mother loved raw hamburger, and is still alive. However, she has always eaten really copious quantities of fresh fruits and vegetables, which have a lot of protective vitamins, and cleansing fiber as well. I was always surprised that any of the meat loaf mixture ever made it into the pan to be baked at our house, in fact. Did your parents eat raw hamburger every Sunday or something? I am not sure that a tiny bit once in awhile would cause colon cancer, although some nasty e coli bacteria might get you very suddenly. I do not believe Iron Kids bread is an actual fraud--although I would be really interested to know exactly what kind of fiber is included. Saw dust? It must be a very, very fine fiber, which of course seriously dilutes the entire concept behind fiber, which is to act basically as a broom does, sweeping and whisking out the digestive tract so that nothing can get stuck there long enough to do any damage. I think of Iron Kids bread in the same way that I do junky cereal--at least it is enriched, so that some vitamins are obtained from ingesting it. But the whole typically American process of stripping our natural grains of all the good things on the outside, so that the bland and boring center remains to be used in flour making, and then enriching the final product because all the nutrients are gone, is a little convoluted. How do you really know what causes anything, though? Isn't there a gene for colon cancer--doesn't susceptibility to it run in families? I remember that Ronald Reagan and his brother both had it, but his brother died from it and President Reagan did not, because he had good medical care and it was detected early. My memory is a little hazy on this, but I think that was the scenario. And it has just been discovered that for most people, low sodium diets are actually dangerous, changing artery walls and doing some other things that are not beneficial to our bodies. Every time I think I am on a totally healthy path, some new information comes out, or the results of a study, and I find out I am no longer doing the Right Thing. But I think that avoidance or at least severe restriction of red meat, eating everything as close to its raw and/or natural state as possible, and plenty of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, with a vitamin supplement and plenty of exercise, is about as close to life enhancing as most of us are able to get consistently and still enjoy the pleasure of eating, which is also life enhancing. We have a raw foods restaurant here, and the pizzas are sun baked on the roof, and the cooks forage for greens in the park across the street. An interesting concept, but it is really just a novelty, and only masochists eat there on a regular basis.