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Breasts: two great reasons to avoid trans fats. Trans-fats may hike breast cancer risk (Abstract)- “Writing in the American Journal of Epidemiology, Veronique Chajes from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) reports that high blood levels of trans fatty acids, but not cis fatty acids, was associated with a significant increase in breast cancer risk.”

Breasts: two great reasons to revisit that Traditional Mexican diet article. Study Shows Traditional Mexican Foods May Help Prevent Breast Cancer (Abstract) - “The Western and Prudent dietary patterns were associated with greater risk, and the Native Mexican and Mediterranean dietary patterns were associated with lower risk of breast cancer. Body mass index modified the associations of the Western diet and breast cancer among postmenopausal women and those of the Native Mexican diet among premenopausal women.”

You care about your unborn children, right? Good Nutrition Starts Before Conception: Maternal Diet Critical To Health Of Offspring - “Now Adam Watkins and colleagues, writing in The Journal of Physiology, have shown that, even before conception [emphasis added], maternal diet is vital to the health of the next generation. Even as the egg first leaves the ovary and begins to mature, it is subject to nutritional deficiencies in the mother that can profoundly affect its viability.”

If one had to look for a silver lining in every dark cloud. 400 children taken in Mormon raid - “Our food makes them sick because they are not used to processed food.” No, I’m not implying anything about these kids being lucky. Just interesting that they can’t eat the crappy foods they are being fed because they are used to unprocessed stuff.

Living like a real Modern Forager. Forager will live on dead animals, roadkill and wild plants for a year (and make his coffee from acorns) - “Every morning he will forage within a ten-mile radius of his home, seeking out field mushrooms, berries, nuts, bark, herbs, plants such as dandelions and daisies, and even roadkill. Any dead squirrels, foxes, badgers and rabbits he comes across will become his dinner and their skins used for clothing. Coffee will be made from acorns.” I tried to get an interview with Mr. Drennan, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.

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