When Food loves Back

Unrequited love can be a bed of heartaches. But getting loved in return may not be that good an idea at all when we are talking of food. The stake is as bad as a brain tumor itself.

WHILE Francis Bacon believed that “in charity there is no excess,” when we talk of food, there are always those who simply eat in excess.

In an earlier article, a review on many toxicity studies on MSG gave us some reassuring news that sweetening our meat dishes may not be that unhealthy after all. But that’s for the average eater.

We have to consider that Filipinos eat at least three times a day, and more in between. Someone who really loves food, and that food somehow loves in return, may still breach our toxicity threshold for the day for brain tumor of 500 mg... [READ MORE]

This article appears in SunStar Cebu on 7 December 2011.

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