Cluck You!

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Cluck You!

Janet Reynolds, Hartford Advocate

June 5, 2001

Viewed on June 7, 2001

 

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You've given up red meat, cut your salt intake, vowed to

exercise at least three times a week and, if you're a

woman, upped your calcium intake. You're going to live to

be 100.

 

 

But before you plan your centennial years, consider this.

That poultry you've been consuming may be as much a health

problem as that steak you gave up. Not in the

clogging-your-arteries way -- although if you're going to

eat your chicken fried with the skin on you might as well

have a Philly cheese steak.

 

 

No, poultry's potential poison is more insidious and,

ultimately, more threatening in the long term. The problem

with poultry comes from the antibiotics these birds are

fed in their meal, drugs used primarily to make them more

productive rather than to cure sickness.

 

 

These drugs in turn can help make doctor-prescribed

antibiotics less effective --