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I'm sick of being told/reading about things that are "bad" for me. Salt. Butter. Margarine. Refined sugar and flour. High fructose corn syrup. Dairy products. Coffee/caffeine. Red meat. ANY meat. Pasta. Fruit juice (even 100%). Additives. Nitrates. Pesticides, growth hormones, animals fed antibiotics, don't eat raw egg products, genetically modified soy will make hair grow in your mouth (at least if you're a rat). Do you really know what's in your chicken nuggets or your hamburger? This, that, and something else. Shoot, in college I got news stories emailed to me. I think I got general news, entertainment, and health and science articles. In the same email, one article would tell me the newest thing that will give me cancer, and then another article saying I can avoid cancer by doing XYZ.

My iced latte is a trifecta of poison - caffeine, dairy, and refined sugar! I'm sure the water used to make the ice and coffee is tainted too. Someone posted a link about the health evils of dairy. If I believed everything I read or was told, I might kill myself or become a severe hypochondriac. Shoot, I don't know how I survived this long, or how my grandparents lived as long as they did.

A big part of this is probably my pride rebelling. Who likes to be told what to do? Some order is good, and making good choices. But when one video claims dairy is poison and another video tells about how Swiss cheese has been made for centuries, what is a person to think? I tend toward thinking the former is crazy. Thousands of years, people. Yes, all the processed food we eat now is not good, but foods that have been eaten for THOUSANDS of years? Suddenly some scientist decided that's basically wrong?

I think I'm just in a bad mood tonight, even after baking lemon pound cake. Don't know what my problem is. Oh maybe that the field I would like to enter, cooking, seems to be limited by all the food someone's going to say I shouldn't make or serve.

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You'd never eat anything tasty if all those (naturally skinny nutrition) have their say.

To her credit, my nutrition professor was one of the people who found compounds in dark chocolate are good for your heart. She even wrote a book that included this!

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... as you should.

So I take it you enjoyed the concert?

Yes, very much. :D