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@cee-dee wrote:

Read what you will and find out two things.

 

1/ Everything is "good for you".

 

2/ Everything is bad for you.

 

It depends who's grinding which axe.

 

Bananas (and some other fruits) release Ethylene during ripening. Ethylene ain't good for you. Ban fruits? (Yeah, I know "they" use Ethylene gas to ripen some fruits.... but that's a different story.)

 

A young girl died and it was eventually found that her excessive chewing gum habit was the cause of her death. Ban chewing gum?

 

Some people suffer severe reactions (even death) from consuming nuts. Ban nuts?

 

And so it goes on.... Excessive quantities of some things are "bad" for you, on the whole they're "good" for you unless you are one of the unfortunates who react to even small quantities of such things.

 

Alcohol and Tobacco kill some people, others seem to indulge in vast quantities but still live to a great age.

 

I suppose it comes down to "Choose your poison"?

 

 

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A very wise reply.

Suppose we had the potential to live for ever. Then it would be sensible to avoid any foods/drinks/drugs which were "poisonous".  In the sense that they curtailed our immortality, and made us die unnecessarily.

But as things are, we all have to die anyway, after 100 years or so at most.

So during these brief years, we might as well choose to ingest things that give us pleasure, even if they are "poisonous".