Watch what you eat

There's a reason not to eat eggs..

Thanks, Lilo. I can't wait to have some eggs tomorrow morning, turkey burgers for lunch, and a nice chicken dinner.

Just continuing my one man crusade for Truth, Justice and No consumption of eggs...

I couldn't read the whole article and all the links because the page made my ComputerSaurus freeze up. I think I'll have to go to my local public library if I want to see everything.

However...

I did get to read the opening page, and when I read that statement about "everyone is going to get sick in the coming year" (slight paraphrasing here) I thought, "What a bunch of garbage! How the hell can he make that ridiculous assumption?" It's one thing to be (rightly) concerned about food safety, but quite another thing to make such a blanket statement. But, unfortunately, that's what's happened to "journalism" in both print and television - screw the facts, let's just get everyone scared first. That'll get their attention!

I know what it's like to have food poisoning - I had a tainted meatball hero sandwich back in 1978 and it laid me out for three days. I also had some bad Alka-Seltzer (!) in the early 1980's but it was nowhere near as severe as the ealier incident. But, definitely memorable - and when someone starts saying that I am sick from bad food but I just don't know it... well, right then and there you've lost me. Period. That is, unless you'd like to go crawling around in my intestines, in which case you are welcome to do so and I will eagerly await your report on what you find.

Signor V.

Scary reading -- but IMHO a bit over-reactionary.

As far as I remember, I've gotten severe food poisoning just once in my life. Table of 4 in DC, 4 lobster dinners, one smelled odd, my 1-in-4 chance was the "winner". I didn't play the lottery that day; I was too busy in the bathroom -- and missed the entire event I drove down to DC to attend to begin with.

Anyway, interesting (and scary-sounding) stuff. But maybe I have a pretty iron stomach, but I never encountered any of those issues. But I won't dismiss the precautions mentioned -- much of it is just common sense -- many people (including those you might be cooking for) are more susceptible to such illnesses....

But it's STILL a bit extreme. Human race has been eating these things for 1000s of years w/o killing off half the population. (Yes, granted, pesticides, etc - so no pests in my tummy, right? ;))

Well if you say so Godfather...



Nine Parasites You Don't Want Along For The Ride

Sorta reminds me of the story about the fella who read so many articles about all the harmful things in our foods...





...that he gave up reading!


Signor V.

Lilo this is very help post and thanks for share with us

Even after I sent him the link to this, and the recall of a gazillion pounds of ground turkey, my brother insist on eating turkey burgers.

Here is a list noting the worst food as eaten by Andrew Zimmern, and he can eat anything! http://www.gadling.com/2010/04/20/8-weird-things-andrew-zimmern-has-eaten-videos/

Two glasses of cow urine!!! Down in front!!!!

Why would you drink the second glass?

Cause the first would be oh so refreshing....

Does your Pepsi lack pep? Is your Coke not the real thing? India's Hindu nationalist movement apparently has the answer: a new soft drink made from cow urine.

The bovine brew is in the final stages of development by the Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), India's biggest and oldest Hindu nationalist group, according to the man who makes it.

Om Prakash, the head of the department, said the drink – called "gau jal", or "cow water" – in Sanskrit was undergoing laboratory tests and would be launched "very soon, maybe by the end of this year".

"Don't worry, it won't smell like urine and will be tasty too," he told The Times from his headquarters in Hardwar, one of four holy cities on the River Ganges. "Its USP will be that it's going to be very healthy. It won't be like carbonated drinks and would be devoid of any toxins."

The drink is the latest attempt by the RSS – which was founded in 1925 and now claims eight million members – to cleanse India of foreign influence and promote its ideology of Hindutva, or Hindu-ness...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article5707554.ece

Many of the textbooks used in the NYC school system when I was a kid were decades old. The "Health and Hygiene" textbook had chapters on diseases that could affect kids, including hookworm, ringworm, pellagra, beri-beri and others that had disappeared years ago (the pictures always showed barefoot southern kids). Tapeworm always haunted me--the thought of this 30-foot-long serpent living in your guts!
Years later, I asked a friend who was a pediatrician if he'd ever seen a case of tapeworm. "Once, when I was in the Army in the Philippines," he replied. But about a decade after that, my aunt, who was a pediatric nurse-practitioner, told me tapeworm and all those other parasites and diseases I'd read about as a kid were making a big comeback in the US due to increased immigration from the Third World. One of her patients was a little girl from Asia whose father had brought her in after he bent down to kiss her goodnight and found a tapeworm emerging from her mouth.

Okay, that's pretty damn gross.

My brother studied medicine (MD) and infectious diseases (MS). He also spent time studying abroad in Africa and South America for a couple semesters. The story of the parasitic worm that burrowed its way out of your armpit always stuck in my mind -- they'd have to elevate your arm as to not interfere with it. Thought about that quit a bit after I visited him in Costa Rica, but all I got was a few months on the john.

All this talk of parasitic worms reminds me of that 70's Cronenberg movie They came from within. It is cheesy by today's standards but is still somewhat disturbing.

A friend of the family was ill, and tests showed a mass in his intestines. They scheduled him for surgery. He had lost a tremendous amount of weight, so a malignant tumor seemed fairly certain. They operated and removed a large mass. They sent it down to pathology, but it turned out to be ALIVE. It was a ball of parasites. He had eaten a salad while on vacation in Mexico a few months before he got sick.

Moral of the story: they're not kidding when they say don't eat raw fruit or vegetables if you're in certain countries.

An Australian man has been hospitalized for more than a month in serious condition as a result of eating two garden slugs on a dare, according to Australian news media and ProMED , an online service that tracks disease outbreaks.

The 21-year-old Sydney man apparently contracted a rat lungworm parasite from the slugs, which pick it up from rodent droppings. The parasite, a nematode called Angiostrongylus cantonensis, can cause fatal brain swelling.

The ProMED moderator who reported the case said the life cycle of the nematode was described in Australia 50 years ago. It infects not just slugs, rats and humans but also dogs, horses, flying fox bats and marsupials like kangaroos. It can also be caught from unwashed vegetables.

“We hope this will help to remind others to avoid eating raw slugs,” the moderator, Eskild Petersen, said.
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I thinks it's personal discussion.

Got to say I love eggs, fried, hardboilded, pickled, poached, used to love them on Halloween when I was a idiot.

Some would say Rocky Mountain Oysters are dirty. But good beer batter deep fat fried and beer you can't beat em. You eat a few of these and you are looking for things to do and places to go. No not the john these boys will make you a star poll vaulter, broad jumper. So are you in .

What's that reason. Because my grandma insists that she must eat 3 eggs a week. No more. No less. And she makes them very smelly that stinks the whole house up for hours.

IF you eat organic eggs from free roaming chckens which are not given gormones or antibiotics, you're safe.

you also forgot they have to be cage free lol jk