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> The medicinal quality of most store bought onions has all but been
> removed by current mass production farming techniques. The best
> pungent variety of onions we have found to date are available now and
> the season ends in early June. If you are interested in Onions that
> fight cancer, now is the time to stock up. The benefits of pungent
> onions for cancer have been confirmed by recent studies at Cornell
> University and have been covered on Prevention Magazine, WebMD and
> CBS
> News, to name a few sources. As a preventative cancer maintenance
> program everyone over thirty should take onion juice for forty days.
> Why wait until you actually have cancer? It is cheap and has many
> other health benefits.
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> Sig: James M. McConnell
> http:www.brokenearth.org/cancer
Hot breaking recent news, eh Jimmy? This was a freakin' news release
from October 7, 2004. None of the sup****tive literature still exists on
the servers. Why don't you give useful citations?
Numero uno: The experiments were done with extracts on selected cancer
cells. Kinda sounds like an in vitro experiment (test tubes and petri
dishes, ect.). Doesn't sound like there is any direct connection to the
consumption of onions as to the efficacy of fighting cancer.
Numero Two-o: The experiment found that extract from yellow cooking
onions was the most efficacious in the above in test tube experiments.
Numero Three-o: The article said nothing about seasonality of the onions
improving their phenolics or flavinoid content.
Numero Four-o: Nothing about drinking onion juice (yuck). Red wines,
"the French Paradox", are lousy with phenolics and flavinoids and you
want us to drink onion juice. Bwahahaha. Where did this onion juice crap
come from?
Eating well is a good first step to health. (Unfortunately, the next
thing is exercise:-()In this regard I would recommend checking out
"Omnivore's Dilemma," by Michael Pollan, from your local library.
http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Meals/dp/01430385
83/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208905017&sr=1-2
Pollan has inspired a new understanding of what we eat. Basically his
advice is to eat leaves, or things that eat leaves and gr***** and to
cut back on grains, in order to correct our omega-3/omega-6 fatty acid
imbalance, fresh organic fruits and vegetables, and free range organic
meat. All is explained in his book. It is an easy read. A real page
turner, actually.
In his latest book, "In Defense of Food",
http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto/dp/1594201455/ref=pd_
bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208905017&sr=1-1 ,
which I haven't read yet, he encourages us to eat from the edges of the
store where the produce, bakery, and meats are. Pollan points out that
the center of the store is were all the pre-made, processed food is, and
it is to be avoided if possible. His most basic injunction is,"If your
grandmother wouldn't recognize it as food, don't eat it".
We now return you to our resident idiot. Bon appétit.
Jimmy, you still here?
--
Billy
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=7WBB0svwMdY&feature=related
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