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 Exercises in situational nutrition, cont'd:  When a cheap bakery chain offers a whole-grain bread as a concession to health, the batch system and the usual methodology sometimes means that it doesn't bake long enough, as whole-grain requires a higher temperature or more time.  So when the outside looks like the cheap, likely additive-filled finer grains next to it on the shelf, the inside is quite possibly dough.  No one principle can identify the healthiest choice in a given situation.  Sometimes the thing the place makes best (and most often) is the healthiest and freshest choice.

Coming to a Ricardian notion of countries and heath-consciousness.  I'm not saying that the present country is necessarily in the recipient category, but the phrase "Eat a salad, live forever" seems to be a bit of a motto.  Not to mention the usher with a respiratory infection a few yards away last night.  (Though in fairness, the ventilation improved with the warm weather.)  And this sort of thing is actually pretty common on the peninsula. Not to mention the abundance of $5 packs of cigarettes.  California, in a Ricardian sense, has an abundance of health-consciousness.  The excess of it in the local market drives them to madness.  It just needs to be transplanted to the Balkans somehow.