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Bored and hungry? Before reaching for the Cheetos, try Googling “food.” (It'll be fun.) On a recent smorgasbord of links: “Health Benefits of Whole Wheat” “Is Wheat the Root of All Evil?” “Why Brown Rice Is Healthier Than White” “Arsenic in Brown Rice: How Worried Should We Be?” “How Eating Fish Helps Your Heart” “Mercury in Fish More Dangerous Than Believed.”
Next stop, your favorite anxiety site.
They told you to build your food pyramid on carbohydrates. But it turned out all carbs were not created equal. So you opted for whole wheat bread and pasta. Then came the demonization of gluten as the root of such evils as autism and depression. So you turned to rice pasta—and gave up white rice for brown, to boot. "Ultimately, Then they said brown rice our country's might contain higher levels of arsenic. They said you needed relationship fish for the fatty acids, so you made it a staple. Now they are to food is saying it is full of toxins. broken."
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