What is your opinion of baking soda? It's also a cleaning chemical you can eat. Look at the composition. Consists of sodium, oxygen and phosphorous. It's high alkalinity provides its utility as a cleaning product vs oils. As an additive it has antioxidant properties, counteracts acidity and is irritating but not toxic at high levels (i.e. in some supplements - still small doses but much higher than what you find in cereal).
Not mean to undermine the intention, but just a thought - regular sodium is part of many dangerous chemicals but still it contributes a certain part to our healthy lifestyle (sodium is part of edible sea salt). So I guess things like this needs a careful evaluation before classifying them as harmful or harmless either way.
Jessica Meyer There are reasons not to eat Lucky Charms but this is not one of them. The cleaner is just a safe one with very little toxicity. But it's a good idea to avoid the artificial food colors in there.
#vegetarian #vegan #evolution Originally shared by Sean P. O. MacCath-Moran +Eve Volve: "Meat allowed us to evolve" Really? I think you're mistaken to believe this is a certainty, but what causes you to believe this is so, +Eve Volve ? As I understand it, there have been healthy, thriving vegetarians and vegans for as long as there have been humans. Some were so due to moral or ethical concerns, others due to resource utilization issues, others due to cultural taboos. All other factors being equal, the veg(etari)ans have thrived, and continue to do so. For some more recent historical examples of vegans, we can look at Pythagoras, the "Pythagoreans" (as vegans were called for the following 1300 years), along with a plethora of like-minded contemporaries (e.g. goo.gl/lgDBL ). Buddhists, Jainists, et al., have been doing grand as veg(etari)ans since around the 6th century BCE. Prior to this, there's compelling reason to believe that most people were veg...
Lucky charms cleans your system on the way down? Hmmm... somehow I'm not really quite buying it ...
ReplyDeleteWhat is your opinion of baking soda? It's also a cleaning chemical you can eat. Look at the composition. Consists of sodium, oxygen and phosphorous. It's high alkalinity provides its utility as a cleaning product vs oils. As an additive it has antioxidant properties, counteracts acidity and is irritating but not toxic at high levels (i.e. in some supplements - still small doses but much higher than what you find in cereal).
ReplyDeleteNot mean to undermine the intention, but just a thought - regular sodium is part of many dangerous chemicals but still it contributes a certain part to our healthy lifestyle (sodium is part of edible sea salt). So I guess things like this needs a careful evaluation before classifying them as harmful or harmless either way.
ReplyDeleteJessica Meyer There are reasons not to eat Lucky Charms but this is not one of them. The cleaner is just a safe one with very little toxicity. But it's a good idea to avoid the artificial food colors in there.
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