We didn't eat out much when I as a kid. I eat a fair amount of Lean Cuisines etc. now which are high in salt but I do watch my weight and exercise so overall I would imagine my diet is relatively healthy especially compared to the average American.

Actually I think you are right on. The country is also feeding antibiotics to much of our food. This makes resistant diseases. I don't eat fast food anymore. I wait till I can afford a nice meal with my change jar. Since all my auto immune stuff, I have taken notice finally about what I put in my mouth, and what I am exposed to. MrsD knows a lot about this subject too. Have a good night Doydie. ginnie

We are what we eat, but I think this idea is too simplistic. I ate mostly healthy food growing up but I did eat a bit of junk food in my teens. It could be one factor for a lot of people though because of the lack of nutrition and the poisonous effects of junk food in general.

i knew there would be a mixed response to this. I also as a child ate pretty healthy, well maybe to much fat. But as an adult I didn't do so well. In fact I did poorly and that's what I raised my children on. But I think I will bring up this study to both my girls in hopes that it will scare them into eating a little more healthy. The younger one I have hopes for the older one, not so much.

I ate fairly decent food as a child, but there is one thing that was culinarily weird in my house.

My parents didn't give us fresh milk when we were kids. I have no idea why, but for the first...heck, 18yrs of my life, we bought dehydrated milk. My mom would stir some up whenever she needed milk. I have no idea why they didn't buy milk in cartons/bottles. We live in Nebraska. There are cows all over this state. It's not like we were on the surface of the freaking moon. Milk and all it's nice vitamins was readily available.

I remember going to the farm with my grandmother when I was younger and her teaching me how to milk a cow. Too bad grandma's sister lived about 100miles from Omaha, and I only visited the farm maybe four times in my life before my great-aunt moved into a town.

I do have a distant memory of us getting deliveries from a milkman when I was really young. (like under the age of five. And I'm only 44yrs old) We had the milkbox on our front porch for years after we stopped getting milk deliveries.

I do kind of think that the lack of milk that didn't come from a powder might have more to do with my MS than the salt I might have eaten from all the Happy Meals my mom used to buy me.

I hate the taste of milk now that I'm older. If I drink milk, it has to be chocolate flavored.