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Kan Eating Aill jour j v** ___ ' - '7' . . 1 | Food:,A Health Hazard ` V'Eai your cereal," mother alwayt ' -Jwmomsbed. "Drink your milk and be sure you drink eight glasses of *w*ter everyday." _ Adlib * Mom's intentions were good, but research In the past few years in dicates that perhaps mother doesn't Jiwtys know best. . By Mary Mills Lifestyle Editor Today we are warned by the FDA but other foods ss well, such as eggs $nd other health agencies that many and butter and meat. ` the foods in our daily diet are bad Hor us--and in some cases, may cause fetath. There are other things wrong with meat, we're J old. The 5 Take cereal, for instance. It's diethylstiJbeateroJ (DES) fed to cattle and chickens to fatten them quickly loaded with preservatives that allow may be a cancer-causing agent. tarocers to keep it on the shelf for one tpear. And the sugared kind klda Bacon and hot dogs and other t|dore rots their teeth, and may even* processed meets have come under Jtually lead to hypoglycemia, diabetas far even mental disorders. ' scrutiny because of the sodium nitrate that Is used to preserve and flavor them. {J. We re well aware of the. aim of 1 sugar by now and the American ten* Meat lovers face a dilemma. What > deucy toward sweets. And not only do we do? Turn to fish... does-sugar sometimes cause disease, But wait a minute. Remember the but it also makes you fat. v tuna scare a few years ago? Danger So, what happens when you turn to an artificial sweetener? ously high levels of mercury were found in canned tune. Since that time ' the warning has been extended to Somebody tells you those nasty chemicals known as cydamates cable cancer in lab teat animali. most other kinds of fish that swim in the world's polluted waters. All this might convince you to become a vegetarian--if it weren't for those ugly rumors about lethal levels of poison in vegetables sprayed with pesticides. ' Bread and water? You know what they're saying about white bread...that it has no nutritive value, no fiber (an essential ingredient in preventing cancer of the colon, according to several promi nent physicians) and its wheat con tent is practically nil. Water? Just last week it was disclosed that South Floride het dangerously high levels of a poisonous industrial chemical known as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) which collect in fish and seep into ground water from which we obtain our drinking water. I^ocal health officials speculate that drinking large concentrations of PCB over a long period of time could cause cancer. Where does that leave you? iThen somebody else tells us about stphethlng called red dye No. 2 the!. yoty never knew you were eating in JQtoMJd, JeJIo, pink lemonade and chocolate cake may be hazardous to yotrr health. jAII processed foods, in fact, have been under investigation because of potentially harmful additives. Bland, innocent-looking baby food, for in stance, has been shown to produce tooth decay in young children and to make babies overweight. ; Chocolate is another offender. It i has been suggested that since it is a i stimulant, It may lead to high blood pressure and perhaps diabetes. Food purists prefer carob, although it is a , little bit bitter. ' . rO"T flA. tens CAT. and VJiv. 101.W# FEB U976 \ Caffeine content in coffee can have t bad effects on the human body overs * period of time, according to various report*. and that ha* caused many of us to buy only the decaffeinatad kind. Enough words to fill several hun* dred books have been written about the evils of liquor--not merely from the moral standpoint. A number of diseases reportedly result from high , alcoholic intake. Then there's the problem with milk--pu^> wholesome, body-buildj ing milk. High-fat content pushes up rtha serum cholesterol count, and we 41 know that's no-no. MONS 033043 j Too much cholesterol leads to hy- ( tfertenston and heart attacks, some . *iiri>innir mv It's not lust milk