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C. processedF. purposesI. remain L. higher O. treated The food we eat seems to have profound effects on our health. Although science has made (1) steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat. Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human (2) are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, especially cancer of the colon. Different cultures are more likely to cause certain different illnesses because of the food that is (3) in these cultures. That food is related to illness is not a new (4) . In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates, commonly used to (5) color in meats, and other food additives, caused cancer. Yet, these additives (6) in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things on the packaging labels of (7) food are helpful or harmful. The additives which we eat are not all so direct. Farmers often give penicillin to beef and living animals, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of (8) cow. Sometimes similar drugs are given to animals not for medical (9) , but for financial reasons. The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a (n) (10) price on the market. Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continu