LOL I wouldn't go over board there. The chemical preservatives used in lunch meats are well known for creating nitrosamines, a known cancer causing compound and the deleterious health affects of excess gluten in your diet are well documented....but within moderation you can enjoy your Subway sandwhich knowing that it is safe, nutritious and delicioius.My Subway after gym sandwich is all the more delicious now that there is a big heaping of SCIENCE on it.
That's a silly argument Tom. They have been using chemical additives in bread....well since there has been bread. You're kidding yourself if you don't think that the azodicarbonamide in banned from bread in the EU has been replaced by some other bleaching agent. Also, the use of these chemicals is often market driven. People like their bread white....not an oxidize grayish/beige color. As for the allergic reaction and asthma you're comparing apples to oranges. Being exposed to large levels of azodicarbonamide have been linked to sensitization reactions and astma but that's not the same as being exposed to ppm levels of the chemical. Before you're going to convince me I need to be concerned you need to provide me evidence of at what level of exposure to azodicarbonamide is there a risk to a senstization reaction or an asthmatic response and then we can regulate the chemical accordingly.
You're welcome to your particular bias but it should be pointed out to you that the allopathic philosophy has its limits too and areas in which it is either inneffective or actually does harm. There are more ways to view health and wellness than through the western allopathic philosophy. Many, such as accupuncture have affective modalities for a very long time and would not have existed for as long as they have if they did not have effective practical applications. Some even have western homologues. Applied kinesiology essentially works on the same meridian concept as accupuncture. Are you telling me that it is mostly worthless?
But they still used chemical adjuncts in bread production. Always have. There is a vast plethora of modifying agents, preservatives, levening agents, oxidizing agents, etc, etc, that have been used since bread was first developed.
And you dismay me for relying on anecdotal evidence and not on fact. You also have an obvious double standard. Are you supportive of banning sodium chloride from all food products given that the facts show that is is significantly more hazardous than azodicarbonamide and is used in far larger quantities?
Unless you purchase stone ground whole wheat flower directly from your miller than what ever bread your eating has some chemical adjuncts in it. Though I do agree with you on white bread. I'm not big fan of it either.
Well using bloodletting as an example rather demonstrates my point about western allopathic philosophy. There are many forms of chemotherapy that are useless and are practiced widely to this day. Example, perscribing antibiotics for viral infections. Does that undermine all of western allopathic philosophy? Not hardly.
I think there is a lot of homeopathy that is quackary and BS....I wouldn't say all of it is. I would say that much of Homeotherapy based on the so called law of infinitesimals. I think that has been over represented in the popular literature about homeopathy. I would agree that diluting something to the point where there virtually isn't any of it in solution is nonsense. That is many peoples view of homeopathy.
I have I have stated in my previous post. That depends on how you define homeopathy. If you define it based in the law in infinitisimals then yes, I agree with you.
