What Price Health?

I know that everyone is feeling the pinch of the current price of food(s) but I cannot understand for the life of me, why anyone would knowingly eat pesticides.  There has  been (shockingly) some media coverage here and there about the fruits and vegetables that you should not eat due to the high levels of pesticides used in growing them.

There was a study quoted on the news last week, done at Stanford University.  It wasn't really a "study" but a review of other studies - quite different  as there was no actual testing done.  One really has to pay attention to the details as the media so often misrepresents information.  In this report, the main point they attempted to convey was nutritionally there is no difference between conventional and organics.  I won't dispute that at all.  It's what conventional HAS that organic does not.  That would be the chemicals, toxic pesticides.  Who wants them?  I don't know about your liver, but mine doesn't need more work trying to deal with more chemicals.

Since apples are now going to be flooding the markets, realize that they are on the TOP of the list of foods to buy organic.  And now there is talk of GMO apples in the near future.  Consuming GMO's and heavily sprayed with pesticide fruits and vegetables is an invitation to toxins your body cannot handle.  Our livers can filter out toxins, but like anything else, there IS a limit to how much it can handle.  Toxins that are not filtered and eliminated from your body are going to stay there creating havoc and ultimately disease.

Pay more now for organics, or pay later with health problems.  It's a choice. 

Here is a bit of an article from Natural News about this issue.  I want to add that eating fruits and veggies grown in other countries is hardly safe either.  We get a lot of our foods from South America.  Pesticides that have been actually outlawed here are sold to foreign countries with less regulation (or no laws about them) than we have here - and what we have here conventionally is pretty bad.  I'm sure the chemical companies are laughing their asses off - or at the least are still manufacturing chemicals that they now have to export for use (making lots of money!) and they wind up on YOUR food regardless.  Read your labels on produce too!  If in doubt about whether a fruit is organic or not, the sticker should have numbers on it that begin with 9.  If it is a 4, it is not organic.

There is another issue here and it's called eating less.  Organic meats cost more, so eat less of it. 

(NaturalNews) One of the most common excuses people have for not eating healthy is that healthy food costs too much, particularly organic food that is often priced slightly higher than comparable conventional food. But eating healthy and organic does not have to break the bank, especially if you follow these helpful tips for maximizing nutrition on a budget.

Because of the rapid growth of the organic sector over the past decade or so, organic products are becoming increasingly more abundant, which means they are also naturally decreasing in cost as the market expands. This in and of itself has made organic food much more accessible to the average American family, as many stores now sell organic produce, for instance, at prices that are very close to those for conventional produce.


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