“Eating healthy foods was extremely important to people of earlier eras, perhaps even more important than it is today.”
– Rachel Landau, Scientific American Reports
The cliché “you are what you eat” best sums up the nutritional dimensions. The type and amount of food people consume affect their physicality in many ways.
Many human-made foods contain ingredients that are not natural for our systems to consume. One such ingredient is artificial preservatives, which are utilized to preserve the shelf-life of foods and decrease the risk of spoilage. The long-term and even short-term effects of some of these preservatives, all of which are foreign to our body’s natural intake rules, probably present problems.
Modern foods also ...
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