Actually, for me the "austere" rules of SP come in very handy. I didn't even know I needed to watch out for those things until I read her book. But, it so happens that I have Hepatitis C and I am pretty sure that following SP really strictly will be very nice to my liver. I am also just going to start treatment in April and I hope very much that eating the SP way will somehow help me through it and support the process. So now I buy only hormone free meats and eggs, found all the organic dairy products that contain nothing else but the dairy ingredients etc. I am sure if I didn't have this condition I also wouldn't worry about these things too much...
Panni