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I wonder how many diseases are becoming more prevalent because we eat manufactured food on a long term basis. Additives have been approved on the ground that th

I wonder how many diseases are becoming more prevalent because we eat manufactured food on a long term basis. Additives have been approved on the ground that they are not harmful to our body, yet we know very little in which ways they may influence our gut microbes (e.g. [1]). A higher proportion of North Americans tend to find certain kinds of food/snacks from other cultures gross, yet the perfectly sterilized/packaged/high-sugar food options here are probably much more harmful. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181001101932.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181001101932.h...

devoply 7y ago
Not only is this a period of great extinction, this is also a period of great sterilization where we are trying to kill everything that eats anything that we produce... as if we are not one of those things and somehow separate from it all. In the end this war will either be won in which case we will probably have a number of other health issues to deal with or lost in which we recognize that there is no difference between us and the environment and that we are both part of a whole that we can shape immensely.
- rexpop 7y ago
  For a visceral encounter with extremes on this theme, read Kim Stanley Robinson's novel "Aurora".