9.7 Avoid maize, lettuce, maize oil and canola oil - Why and How

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AVOID CORN, LETTUCE, CORN OIL AND CANOLA OIL

- WHY AND HOW

Some agricultural products are inherently unsafe because they are so fiddly that they are accorded an inordinate quantity of herbicides, fungicides, pesticides etc for large-scale commercial culture.

These poisons obviously accumulate in their products and prove impossible to remove during refining.

Two identified here include CORN OIL AND LETTUCE. To quote :

"AVOID CORN OIL AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AS WELL. It bears the same heavy burden of agricultural poisons.

The best alternatives are olive oil and sunflower oil. The olive tree is an extremely hardy tree - trees dating from the first century are still as productive. Sunflowers are also very hardy and generally require no spraying at all. Sunflower oil is also extremely nutritious, in fact so nutritionally 'well rounded' that it is said one could live on sunflower seeds alone "

[but I suggest you throw in buckwheat and a few eggs as well - plus some seaweed occasionally for adequate supplies of a full range of trace elements].

To which I add Canola - and in particular Canola Oil. The Canola Industry has moved towards genetically modifying their feedstocks so they can tolerate even higher levels of herbicides.

Diffusion of this curse of Frankenfood by uncontrolled pollination has been allowed to occur; and now the powerful interests behind the move, Monsanto, have succeeded in persuading the Chrétien [English : cretin] government to ban identifying labels on foodstuffs containing such genetically modified materiaLl.

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For cooking, I have gone beyond simple oil profiles and now use and recommend Carotino oil.

For salad dressing, usually Minerva olive oil [tastes best], sometimes Bertolli [excellent - amazing user support] :

My recipe to never get flu ? Supplement your salad dressing with borage oil : 8 ounces of Borage oil will provide about 6 months supplement - add proportionately [ie about a third of a teaspoon daily].

And while we are on cooking :

The best tasting salt ? Greek Perla [iodized coarse grain sea] salt.

Or to flavour too : Albert Vogel's Herbamare [herb seasoning salt]. Celery, leeks, water cress, garden cress, onion, chives, parsley, lovage, garlic, marjoram, rosemary and thyme organically grown in Switzerland and kelp are finely chopped and added to the wet sea salt collected from the coast of France to steep. Once dried, this mixture is ground, sifted and packaged.

His more piquant Trocomare contains in addition, red & chili pepper, and horseradish.

Other exceptional related products, really good on every count : Taste, health, value; include Kelpamare a blend of hydrolyzed vegetables and cereals, soy, natural vegetable flavours and iodine bearing kelp (sea wrack, Macrocystis pyrifera) concentrate.

Finally, his Plantaforce vegetable concentrate cubes can be used to prepare stock or a broth. What I get is labeled to contain parsley, carrots, onions, leek, cabbage and tomato; with sea salt, hydrolyzed protein, vegetable fat and lactose. However their South African site states that it comprises vegetable protein, peanut oil, sea salt, cultured yeast extract, tomato pulp, green pepper pulp, water cress, parsley, basil, thyme, celery, leeks, onions, chives, marjoram, rosemary and kelp.

And remember - HIBRIX^TM can ensure that crops receive all the trace elements they need for vitality without having to rely on poisonous protective chemicals; and now offers a third generation of improvements :
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