Thursday, August 7, 2014

Fridge, larder, cupboard for storage?

I'm horrified by the food in the supermarket on the top shelf under lights with bottles and packets feeling warm - never buy them.
   An article in the Daily Mail discusses whether you should keep prducts in the fridge, following manufacturers' instructions.
   The fact that you are healthy is fine for you if you are in top health and shrug, not a recipe for others. A doctor deals with thousands. A million young people died of flu in 1918, already weakened by wartime. No manufacture wants thee people in a thousand suing them. The manufacturer can't claim, tough luck Jones family that your son died, because John Smith says he's all right. Nor can the manufacturers say, 97 fit healthy people are fine eating our product, but three people will drop dead, survival of the fittest.
   Important points:
1 What is OK in winter in a cold country is not ok in a heatwave or a hot country. In Singapore everything including sugar and bread goes in the fridge, especially as many kitchens even in brand newly build buildings do not have air con.
2 In the old days we had larders which were colder with air vents at the back. We now live in houses with central heating and no larder because we have a fridge.
3 You have to look at statistics, not take a survey of one person who says, 'I'm all right'. Even in a crisis where thousands are dying there are people who shrug and say, 'I'm all right'.
4 It's not true that in the old days nor in primitive countries people managed to live long healthy lives. Natives live to thirty, many people had fathers who died in their fifties, numerous great people lost parents.

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