Why does canned fruit appear to be so much less health-promoting?
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I just did a video a few weeks ago about bisphenol A, the can lining chemical. Check it out at How to Avoid the Obesity-Related Plastic Chemical BPA (
I close with yet another screed against reductionism. Just did a whole video on that too. See Why is Nutrition So Commercialized? ( as well as Reductionism and the Deficiency Mentality (
If fresh fruit really that healthy? See If Fructose is Bad, What About Fruit? ( and How Much Fruit is Too Much? (
Now that there’s no more lead in the cans, any other way we’re exposed to the toxic heavy metal? See:
• Get the Lead Out (
• Heavy Metals in Protein Powder Supplements (
• Filled Full of Lead (
• California Children Are Contaminated (
• Lead Contamination of Tea (
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