Food, Digestion, GMO and more.

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Originally Posted by Albert Clark

Ball pythons can't even digest vegetable matter. Purely carnivores. :)

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We can't digest a lot of things we normally eat. Corn and corn based products, (corn fructose syrup is in almost everything) peanuts, beans, I'm pretty sure peanut butter falls into this as well.

Our bodies can't break down single cell organisms.

Just offering a fun fact you probably already know... hehe


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Originally Posted by KingWheatley

We can't digest a lot of things we normally eat. Corn and corn based products, (corn fructose syrup is in almost everything) peanuts, beans, I'm pretty sure peanut butter falls into this as well.


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That is not correct. You can absolutely digest corn syrup, that's why it causes obesity, you can also digest a good deal of corn even though it does have a lot of insoluble fiber it also has aromatic amino acids. You can also digest the fats and protein in peanuts and beans. What you can't digest from these items is the cellulose and insoluble fiber, but they are not made of 100% of either of those.

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Originally Posted by piedlover79

That is not correct. You can absolutely digest corn syrup, that's why it causes obesity, you can also digest a good deal of corn even though it does have a lot of insoluble fiber it also has aromatic amino acids. You can also digest the fats and protein in peanuts and beans. What you can't digest from these items is the cellulose and insoluble fiber, but they are not made of 100% of either of those.

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-sigh- I really need to learn the difference of when I'm told a fact, and when I'm told a myth someone believes to be a fact....

Thank you for correcting!


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There are a lot of nutritional myths out there (even the Food Pyramid was false information pushed on the government by grain, meat and dairy lobbyists). You need to take most of what people tell you with a grain of salt (pun intended).

Organic food are the big misinformation generators these days. People think organic means no pesticides but what it really means is no *synthetic* pesticides. They still use naturally devised pesticides some of which are more dangerous and harmful to the environment than thier synthetic cousins.

Natrual does not equal healthy. You know what is all natrual? Arsenic. ;)

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Originally Posted by piedlover79

There are a lot of nutritional myths out there (even the Food Pyramid was false information pushed on the government by grain, meat and dairy lobbyists). You need to take most of what people tell you with a grain of salt (pun intended).

Organic food are the big misinformation generators these days. People think organic means no pesticides but what it really means is no *synthetic* pesticides. They still use naturally devised pesticides some of which are more dangerous and harmful to the environment than thier synthetic cousins.

Natrual does not equal healthy. You know what is all natrual? Arsenic. ;)

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Found in apple seeds, right? I've heard that they are potent enough to kill you, but I've never heard of anyone dying from eating an apple core


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Originally Posted by piedlover79

There are a lot of nutritional myths out there (even the Food Pyramid was false information pushed on the government by grain, meat and dairy lobbyists). You need to take most of what people tell you with a grain of salt (pun intended).

Organic food are the big misinformation generators these days. People think organic means no pesticides but what it really means is no *synthetic* pesticides. They still use naturally devised pesticides some of which are more dangerous and harmful to the environment than thier synthetic cousins.

Natrual does not equal healthy. You know what is all natrual? Arsenic. ;)

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I agree natural does not equal healthy, but organic will always be better cause it will always be gmo free. I rather be consuming "natural" pesticides than i would be consuming gmos. Fyi alot if not the majority of organic farmers are pesticide free especially if theyre local!

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Originally Posted by KingWheatley

Found in apple seeds, right? I've heard that they are potent enough to kill you, but I've never heard of anyone dying from eating an apple core


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Our bodies can't break down single cell organisms.

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...That just isn't true. I don't know where you got that from, but it really isn't true. We can digest single cell organisms just fine. Maybe not all, but the human digestive system can break down cell walls pretty well. We have trouble with plant cell walls.

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Originally Posted by BPGator

"Everything you read on the internet is always true" - Abraham Lincoln, 1492


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;P -wink wonk- I see what you did there


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Originally Posted by KingWheatley

Found in apple seeds, right? I've heard that they are potent enough to kill you, but I've never heard of anyone dying from eating an apple core


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That is also not true. Apple seeds contain cyanide, not arsenic. And even though they contain cyanide they don't contain it at any dose that eating a whole apple core could kill a human. On top of that, you have to absorb cyanide at a rate faster than what your liver processes it to cause toxicity, which just cannot happen when your digest system has to take time breaking down the apple seed first.