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It’s a fact! 100% of men, women and children eat food, and 97.5% of must buy their food from others who bring it from an average of 2,000 miles away. And so the hungry ask: ”What’s in this tomato? Who planted that broccoli? Is it safe to eat genetically engineered corn? Why are they irradiating meat? Are we running short of water? Why is China growing our apples? What will happen to us if we can no longer farm? How safe is our food chain?” The Food Chain is an audience-interactive syndicated newstalk radio program and podcast broadcasting weekly on radio stations and streaming on demand on the internet. The Food Chain, which has been named the Ag/News Show of the Year by California’s legislature, is hosted by Michael Olson, author of the Ben Franklin Book of the Year award-winning MetroFarm, a 576-page guide to metropolitan agriculture. The Food Chain is available live via GCN Starguide GE 8 and delayed via MP3/FTP. For clearance and/or technical information, please call Michael Olson at 831-566-4209 or email michaelo@metrofarm.com
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Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Dr. Michael Greger, Author, How Not To Age
(Diet, Nutrition, Aging)
We have been searching for that proverbial fountain of youth for as long as we have been capable of searching. Though we have searched in many places, and spent many fortunes doing so, we still grow old. This leads us to ask:
Can we maintain what we have, so we can retain what we want?
As we grow old, we begin resisting the fact that we are growing old. And so we begin our resistance by searching for a fountain of youth in a package.
According to one industry group, 60 percent of those above the age of 65 buy products that promise to maintain one’s youth, so one can retain one’s youthfulness. Solve the problem, sell the product.
However, few if any, anti-aging products do what they promise to do. As described in Dr. Michael Greger book How Not To Age, many of these products exploit scientific breakthroughs to package fraudulent anti-aging products.
For example, nineteenth-century advances in magnetism led to ads asserting, “[t]here need not be a sick person in America . . . if our Magneto-Conservative Underwear would become a part of the wardrobe of every lady and gentleman,” Less comically, more tragically, public interest in Marie Curie’s work led to a range of radioactive products said to “revitalize” and “energize.” As one Wall Street Journal headline read, “The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off.”16
Today, we can see these so-called “scienceploitation” cures being sold on almost every street corner, but as the headline in Scientific American reads, there is “No Truth to the Fountain of Youth.
And so today we pause to ask:
Can we eat to maintain and retain the youthfulness what we want?
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