In her book Nourishing Traditions, Sally Fallon from the Weston Price Foundation details one study that is shocking to say the least.

Another unpublished experiment was carried out in the 1960s. Researchers at University of Michigan were given 18 laboratory rats. They were divided into three groups: one group received corn flakes and water; a second group was given the cardboard box that the corn flakes came in and water; the control group received rat chow and water. The rats in the control group remained in good health throughout the experiment. The rats eating the box became lethargic and eventually died of malnutrition. But the rats receiving the corn flakes and water died before the rats that were eating the box! (The last corn flake rat died the day the first box rat died.) But before death, the corn flake rats developed schizophrenic behavior, threw fits, bit each other and finally went into convulsions. The startling conclusion of this study is that there was more nourishment in the box than there was in the corn flakes.

This experiment was actually designed as a joke, but the results were far from funny. The results were never published and similar studies have not been conducted.

Most of America eats this kind of cereal. In fact, the USDA is gloating over the fact that children today get the vast majority of their important nutrients from the nutrients added to these boxed cereals.

The rats that ate CARDBOARD LIVED LONGER than the ones who ate CORN FLAKES. Are you kidding me?!! Scary stuff no doubt. We wonder why kids are having so many problems with ADHD, food allergies, and behavioral problems. Food plays a major role in their developing neurological system. Grains and cereals just won’t cut it if we want our kids (and adults) to be as healthy as possible. Yes, grains and cereals are cheap and easy, but at what price? I really feel we are seeing our nation as a whole suffer from the food choices we’re personally making. That may be hard to swallow, but that’s just my opinion. Look around- obesity, chronic disease, inactivity, inflammation, pain, depression, ADHD, learning difficulties. Maybe we should eat the cardboard?

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