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Shabbat Sermon: After the Crash with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz

Published: Dec. 15, 2018, 6 p.m.

We knew it was coming, this report from an expert who had been spending a lot of time investigating, but when it landed, it really hurt.

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I am talking of course about the recent report that concluded that French fries are bad for you.  According to Eric Rimm, a professor of nutrition at Harvard, French fries are, in his cruel phrase, \u201cstarch bombs.\u201d  He argues that French fries\u2014even though they are made out of potatoes, and even though potatoes are a vegetable, that grows from the ground, and even though vegetables that grow from the ground are usually good for you\u2014in the specific case of French fries, they are not so good for you.

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Read the full sermon here:  https://www.templeemanuel.com/rabbi/rabbi-wes-gardenswartz/after-the-crash/