The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Foodborne illness wrap-up, the role of your health and your foods health.

One of the things I love about doing this blog is the continual incentive to examine different angles of issues,

dig up varying resources around questions, and discern ways our smallest choices establish our broader health.

Much of what I discuss here involves

avoiding chronic diseases, the lifestyle conditions that plague our modern Corg society, and given

the stats, it makes sense to give these the majority of attention. Still, other concerns exist

that grab people's curiosity. Whatever the presiding

health headlines are in a given week or month, I find I'll get messages about these topics

from readers. And such was the case with the foodborne illness theme. Truth be told, it's not

something I personally think much about. As I mentioned in Monday's Dear Mark, I eat raw

oysters without a second thought. I've written in the past about rare meats, and I believe in

eating dirt when homegrown, reputably sourced, organically grown veggies offer it. That said,

I'm a robust person with good gut health. I eat foods that have been raised as

naturally as possible because I consider it worth the benefit to my well-being and because I have

the means and opportunity to do so. Why take a balanced approach to food-borne illness? I recognize

that not everyone lives the way I do. Even within the

MDA community, there's a whole lot of diversity. I'm not just preaching to the fully converted

here, although I learn a great deal from those who have taken the blueprint and chosen to run

with it in their everyday lives. Some in the community here are still living

with poor or mediocre health, perhaps with compromised immune systems, as they contemplate or work

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