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Will you stop eating leafy greens in light of a recent FDA announcement that they are the number one riskiest regulated food?
MSNBC is reporting that the FDA has determined salad is dangerous? Do you trust the FDA's warning? Or is this another one of those those foods that are good for you one decade and bad the next?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33183857/ns/health-food_safety/?pg=2#Health_10RiskiestFoods
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October 07, 2009 12:41 AM
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One possible strategy to deal with this problem is to lightly cook your leafy greens. The Chinese have been doing this for ages, as the sanitation has not been as good as in the West. When I was growing up, I only ate cooked vegetables at home, because my parents, who are from China, were not sure how clean the vegetables were. However, eventually my parents began to trust the food supply, and would eat a salad occasionally, but it was not their first choice to eat salad greens raw.
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October 06, 2009 11:22 PM
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I heard that report this morning also. I will not stop eating the leafy greens or the other things on the list, I will just make sure they are clean. If you panic over every little "study" you will never be able to eat or drink anything. If another outbreak happens like it did a few months ago, I will avoid it until it is cleared up.
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October 07, 2009 03:10 PM
What about when you eat away from home or when you are not preparing the food? I agree I can wash my own salad better, but I don't know how the salad is prepared at the restaurant or caterer or the person who brings a salad to my house. Will you think twice about ordering a salad at a restaurant?
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October 07, 2009 03:36 PM
That's funny because I just remembered a time that I sent a dirty salad back at a restaurant and still ate the one they replaced it with. (Still a good chance the second one was dirty too, right?)
Unfortunately or fortunately, I adore my leafy greens and fresh produce so yeah, I'll still eat them in restaurants too. Think of how far restaurant and food service regulation has come in 10 or 15 years.
Plus, have you ever taken a look at the produce at a Walmart Super Center? If we can eat that, we can eat anything.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, I adore my leafy greens and fresh produce so yeah, I'll still eat them in restaurants too. Think of how far restaurant and food service regulation has come in 10 or 15 years.
Plus, have you ever taken a look at the produce at a Walmart Super Center? If we can eat that, we can eat anything.
October 07, 2009 06:49 PM
good point!!
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October 07, 2009 02:32 AM
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I'm going to keep eating them, because I know there are a lot of risks.
I eat sushi.
I eat undercooked, doughy cookies
I eat runny eggs
....I eat Taco Bell
Life is full of chances. I think salad's worth the risk, and if I'm going to cut out anything potentially toxic, I think I'd go with Taco Bell or maybe those old hot sauce packets in the back of the fridge.
Life's too short to be paranoid about tainted salad.
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I eat sushi.
I eat undercooked, doughy cookies
I eat runny eggs
....I eat Taco Bell
Life is full of chances. I think salad's worth the risk, and if I'm going to cut out anything potentially toxic, I think I'd go with Taco Bell or maybe those old hot sauce packets in the back of the fridge.
Life's too short to be paranoid about tainted salad.
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October 10, 2009 12:20 AM
LMAO @ the Taco Bell inclusion!
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October 07, 2009 04:11 AM
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The report said:
"13,568 people..." get sick every year because they ate some leafy greens that had germs on them. So they might get a bug, might throw up, might have a little case of the runs for a day or two, because their salad wasn't washed well.
According to the Diabetes Awareness group, "180,000 people die each year directly due to diabetes...", and type II diabetes is frequently linked to eating processed foods and sugars, not controlling weight, and not exercising properly. I would venture to guess most type II diabetics didn't get that way from eating excess leafy greens. Death, unlike the runs, isn't something you usually recover from.
According to the American Heart Association, "At least 250,000 people die of heart attacks," each year that are at least loosely related to poor diets, including high fats and high cholesterol and high salt. Leafy greens don't contain any fat, cholesterol or salt that is detrimental to health. Again, death is sort of hard to recover from.
So my point is - 13k people ever year get a little bug that makes them feel bad for a day or two, which could probably be totally avoided if they just ate at home and always washed their greens before serving them, versus the hundred of thousands of people who DIE because they didn't eat enough leafy greens and ate other things instead.
Hummmm.... I think I'll keep eating my leafy greens.
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"13,568 people..." get sick every year because they ate some leafy greens that had germs on them. So they might get a bug, might throw up, might have a little case of the runs for a day or two, because their salad wasn't washed well.
According to the Diabetes Awareness group, "180,000 people die each year directly due to diabetes...", and type II diabetes is frequently linked to eating processed foods and sugars, not controlling weight, and not exercising properly. I would venture to guess most type II diabetics didn't get that way from eating excess leafy greens. Death, unlike the runs, isn't something you usually recover from.
According to the American Heart Association, "At least 250,000 people die of heart attacks," each year that are at least loosely related to poor diets, including high fats and high cholesterol and high salt. Leafy greens don't contain any fat, cholesterol or salt that is detrimental to health. Again, death is sort of hard to recover from.
So my point is - 13k people ever year get a little bug that makes them feel bad for a day or two, which could probably be totally avoided if they just ate at home and always washed their greens before serving them, versus the hundred of thousands of people who DIE because they didn't eat enough leafy greens and ate other things instead.
Hummmm.... I think I'll keep eating my leafy greens.
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October 07, 2009 05:33 PM
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I won't because I rely on them for some of my iron (I don't eat meat). I may consider buying organic over conventional when selecting that produce, but as long as you wash it, it should be fine. And you can even cook things like spinach, so that should get rid of the bacteria. As far as I am concerned, it seems like everything is bad for you, soy, red meat, pork, green leafy veggies, cantaloupe. It is good to be aware, but I take everything the food industry claims with a grain of salt.
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