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From: §Colette§ <lnrpl...@ripco.com>
Subject: Re: Breast is best, was Re: Internet survey - should mothers breastfeed in public?
Date: 2000/05/23
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stephanie6...@my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> If I eat a well balanced meal, I am giving my body proper nutrition. 
> If I eat a McDonald's hamburger, I am denying my body "proper"
> nutrition. And it is never going to kill me.

However, you, as an adult have a fully functions and mature digestive
tract and immune system, and one meal does not your entire diet make.

Maybe look at it this way:
 
     IF you had an immature gut and digestive system that does
not really have any digestive enzymes but the well-balanced meal
contained pre-digested enzymes and vitamins and minerals that are easily
absorbed and used by the body (but not at all in the hamburgers),

     AND if you immune system were very immature and not really working
much at all on its own yet and the well balanced meal had hundreds of
necessary immunilogical and hormonal factors that are known to stave off
infections and offer significant risk reduction many chronic conditions

     BUT the fast-food meal was totally void of those hundreds of live
beneficial components

     THEN the hamburgers could be a contributing factor to a death
caused by one of the many conditions that the well-balanced meal is
well-known (10's of thousands of peer-reviewed published medical
studies) to lessen both the incidence and severity.

Similar to (but I think more compelling) to the idea that if you were
only to eat hamburgers feach and every meal and snack, then a poor low
fiber, high fat diet could be considered a contributing factor in the
death caused by colon cancer or heart attack.
-- 
Colette
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