Before you decided to take this crusty diet that made you feel better about yourselves, did you actually might be reasons that we are omnivores? You try to discredit people who are 'just' medical doctors, but u do realise that medicine is a large proportion of chemistry, which is what cooking is. Instead of saying research says that eating shoots has healing powers, why dont you show this research?
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