(January 8, 2017 at 9:11 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: But it's a safer bet that most foods found in nature (and that we have been eating for hundreads or thousands of years) are probably fine. Especially those that have already been established to be healthy. I can understand someone wanting to stay away from artificial foods to be on the safe side, just in case.
This can go both ways though. Using a non-food related example, for an estimated 2,000 years we thought that "bleeding" a person could remove disease.
The problem with the whole "natural foods" culture is it can often lead to dangers precisely because the artificial methods we use to treat food have made them safe to eat when they would otherwise not be. For example, pasteurization of cow milk effectively kills deadly bacteria (and it's literally just heating milk to high temperatures and rapidly cooling it again) and makes it safe for human consumption, but there are still people who drink raw milk because for some reason they think the fact that it hasn't been treated makes it "better" for you in some way.
