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10<br />

THE “BAD INGREDIENTS<br />

MUST BE AVOIDED” MYTH<br />

This depends upon how “bad” is<br />

defined. Anything, natural or<br />

not, can be toxic (“bad”) in sufficient<br />

doses.*<br />

Avoiding the endless parade of bogeyman<br />

ingredients is fruitless. First there are<br />

horror stories of the dangers of soy, then corn,<br />

then by-products, then wheat, ethoxyquin, saponins,<br />

fat... and on and on. <strong>The</strong>se stories begin<br />

with half-truths, grow to axiomatic law by mere<br />

repetition, and then are seized upon and legitimized<br />

in the form of commercial products pandering<br />

to the confused and misled public.<br />

Allergies are the beginning point of much<br />

of this hysteria. But allergy or sensitivity can<br />

develop to any ingredient if fed unrelentingly<br />

as in exclusive feeding of processed pet<br />

foods. Why would anyone do something so<br />

foolish as feed the same food meal after meal,<br />

Fig. 22.<br />

* Wysong Health Letter, “Nutritional Bogeymen,” June 1996:1. Wysong Health<br />

Letter, “Natural May Be Toxic,” July 1996:3. Ottoboni MA, <strong>The</strong> Dose Makes<br />

the Poison, 1984. Casarett LJ et al, Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: <strong>The</strong> Basic<br />

Science of Poisons, 2001. Science News, August 26, 1995:135. Science News,<br />

June 18, 1988:397. Science, 238:1634. Tufts University Nutrition Letter, 5(10):7.<br />

Journal of Food Science, 53(3):756. Science News, April 15, 1989:238. Food<br />

Contaminants, Sources and Surveillances, 1991:1. Food Processing, May<br />

1996:52.<br />

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