Bloomberg Bans Food Donations To NYC Homeless Shelters

[John L]

Alright Dear, I'll be nice.
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What mystifies me is that contamination worries make no logical sense, when compared to its long term benefits.

There was an article I posted about, over at Jane, where a nutrition expert had listed some things that people should do in order to be healthy. And one of them was for people to quit cleaning off everything from their veggies, and other things they eat. As he stated it, "We need to eat more dirt". His point is that if we don't expose ourselves to germs, and other little things in nature, we will be susceptible to illness when we are finally exposed to microscopic critters. In other words, we will not have a strong immune system.

I would think that homeless people would be eating just about anything, and everything they could scrounge. And it should take a lot of little critters to make them sick. I could be wrong, but what the writer said makes good sense to me. In fact I don't peel my potatoes, carrots, or other vegetables that I once strip down. I occasionally get a mild case of food poisoning(all those little 24 hour stomach flues are really food poisoning), but am over it in about 12 hours. I haven't had a cold since I "can't remember when"(at least two decades). I am not particularly anal about taking leftovers and sticking them in the fridge, because I'm not worried about contamination. Also, I don't throw bread away when it starts getting mold. I eat it too, as long as it is not highly developed. Bread mold doesn't taste very good.

I'm convinced all this, and a lot of garlic, help keep my immunity system in top condition.