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Food and Life

I read The China Study a while ago and it really changed the way I look at food.  The short and dirty explanation of The China Study is that the ‘western’ diet of lots of meat, dairy and eggs is very unhealthy and is the major contributor to the health crisis we’re facing in the US right now.  I didn’t really know what to think of this conclusion since it was completely against many of the ideas of what it means to eat healthy.  I changed my eating habits dramatically after reading the book but still wasn’t completely convinced since my training as a engineer makes me constantly seek out the second opinion and I hadn’t found a convincing one yet.

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