How long could you go without junk food? Last year, the Leake family attempted to abstain for 100 days. A year later, it's still going strong. “Halfway through the first challenge I took the basket of Halloween candy I was hiding in the guest room for when we'd completed the challenge, and just threw it out,” says Lisa Leake, a stay-at-home mom of two daughters, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Consider this… up until the 20th century (that would be the last century) all of our food was grown “organically”. There were no synthetics added to the process. Same goes for raising cattle, there were no antibiotics or hormones introduced into the herds until this past century. Only recently have we had to make the distinction between farming and “organic” farming. Very interest and extremely telling. We have little enough control over many things...
