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Why Eat Organic?
By choosing organic foods, you are choosing to bring more health into your life. Eating organic foods helps to build immunity, increase strength and promotes recovery from chronic conditions.
While organic food is mainstream now and can be found in nearly all grocery and health food stores, visiting Farmer's Markets is one of the best ways to find organic foods and support your local community and you'll get far fresher foods than those that have been shipped from all parts of the country.
Organically grown meats and poultry's are also becoming more available.
What's the difference?
Just as with vitamins, there is always "something" that eludes a manufacturer. The makers of chemical fertilizers cannot reproduce in their correct proportions the essential trace elements that go to make up the good earth.
Modern large-scale food production methods have made it almost impossible to obtain a really pure and unadulterated product of nature. Chemicals act like a tonic and give plants a sharp uplift, but the effect soon wears off and the soil is left as impoverished as before. Ground without any organic treatment is also devoid of earthworms, which are essential to the health of the soil. Earthworms are the greatest gardeners of all. They eat soil to a vast extent and make about their own weight in the finest fertilizer everyday. Their castings are much richer than the actual soil they take in. Chemicals kill earthworms!
After 100 to 300 years of cultivation, our soils are worn out! And, there are still claims that "evidence is lacking" that chemical fertilizers and pesticides are detrimental to our health. The FDA and the US Department of Agriculture regulate about 60% of the food produced in the United States and individual states are responsible for the rest. Of the 70,000 chemicals produced, the EPA lists 60,000 as either potentially or definitely hazardous to our health!
The argument that "evidence of toxicity is lacking" is not valid because evidence of safety is even more lacking! The tremendous increase in illnesses, especially cancer, may in part be correlated with the hundreds of millions of pounds of pesticides added annually to the billions of pounds already in the ground, bits of them carried by soil solution into every cell of our foods.
Nitrates from commercial fertilizers destroy or decrease the vitamin C content of plants. In our bodies they can be changed to nitrites, which have caused serious illnesses and even fatalities. Government regulations set "parts per million" restrictions which lull us into complacency but a number of insecticides have induced many health problems such as liver and kidney damage. Laboratory research has shown that pesticide residues can be found in the brains of rats but has not been studied in the human brain. Apparently, the body fat of everyone contains poison residues. Single foods exceeding the so-called "level of safety" cannot be marketed, but the cumulative amounts ingested over prolonged periods cannot be controlled.
Three hundred million tons of waste is generated annually by industry. The EPA estimates that 90% of this waste is disposed of improperly. Much of this waste finds its way into our air, water, soil and food supplies. We must learn how to be involved and support efforts to heal and purify our earth and its people!
Food plants from high acre yields, forced by chemical fertilizers, contain more carbohydrates and are lower in protein and minerals. Potassium in the form of chemical fertilizers, or liming the soil, unless done with a magnesium limestone or dolomite, both cause such a severe lack of magnesium in food plants that magnesium deficiencies in humans have become widespread.
Calcium, magnesium, potassium and iron contents of vegetables from mineral-rich organic ground have ranged from four to many hundreds of times higher than those grown on soil long under cultivation. Foods from land rich in natural minerals and humus have a greater protein content than those grown in chemically fertilized soils.
Foods grown on healthy soils appear to produce superior human health. Furthermore, plants grown on well mineralized, composted and mulched land have a remarkable ability to remain healthy and are little bothered by pests. Thousands of organic farmers have proven that the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides are not needed. One of the factors detrimental to health is the passing of the home garden!
If space permitted, example upon example could be given as to the detrimental effect of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and additives. The destruction of amino acids, vitamins, minerals and proteins in our foods is high. The cumulative amounts and reactions of one chemical with another are magnified through additives. Some foods, such as white bread, are said to contain no fewer than 30 different additives. The soothing "no evidence for alarm" may well continue until irreparable damage has been done, if it hasn't already!
There is some evidence, for example, that sorbic acid and its salts, which are common preservatives, can combine with nitrites, popular food additives, to produce a chemical compound that may cause genetic mutations. Any toxic substance can harm the liver. Since all of us consume, with our foods, pesticides, additives, preservatives and nitrates, it's believed that everyone has liver damage to some extent. Any form of liver damage causes increased susceptibility to cancer. Also, susceptibility increases tremendously when diets are deficient in protein or essential amino acids.
While organic food is mainstream now and can be found in nearly all grocery and health food stores, visiting Farmer's Markets is one of the best ways to find organic foods and support your local community and you'll get far fresher foods than those that have been shipped from all parts of the country.
Organically grown meats and poultry's are also becoming more available.
What's the difference?
Just as with vitamins, there is always "something" that eludes a manufacturer. The makers of chemical fertilizers cannot reproduce in their correct proportions the essential trace elements that go to make up the good earth.
Modern large-scale food production methods have made it almost impossible to obtain a really pure and unadulterated product of nature. Chemicals act like a tonic and give plants a sharp uplift, but the effect soon wears off and the soil is left as impoverished as before. Ground without any organic treatment is also devoid of earthworms, which are essential to the health of the soil. Earthworms are the greatest gardeners of all. They eat soil to a vast extent and make about their own weight in the finest fertilizer everyday. Their castings are much richer than the actual soil they take in. Chemicals kill earthworms!
After 100 to 300 years of cultivation, our soils are worn out! And, there are still claims that "evidence is lacking" that chemical fertilizers and pesticides are detrimental to our health. The FDA and the US Department of Agriculture regulate about 60% of the food produced in the United States and individual states are responsible for the rest. Of the 70,000 chemicals produced, the EPA lists 60,000 as either potentially or definitely hazardous to our health!
The argument that "evidence of toxicity is lacking" is not valid because evidence of safety is even more lacking! The tremendous increase in illnesses, especially cancer, may in part be correlated with the hundreds of millions of pounds of pesticides added annually to the billions of pounds already in the ground, bits of them carried by soil solution into every cell of our foods.
Nitrates from commercial fertilizers destroy or decrease the vitamin C content of plants. In our bodies they can be changed to nitrites, which have caused serious illnesses and even fatalities. Government regulations set "parts per million" restrictions which lull us into complacency but a number of insecticides have induced many health problems such as liver and kidney damage. Laboratory research has shown that pesticide residues can be found in the brains of rats but has not been studied in the human brain. Apparently, the body fat of everyone contains poison residues. Single foods exceeding the so-called "level of safety" cannot be marketed, but the cumulative amounts ingested over prolonged periods cannot be controlled.
Three hundred million tons of waste is generated annually by industry. The EPA estimates that 90% of this waste is disposed of improperly. Much of this waste finds its way into our air, water, soil and food supplies. We must learn how to be involved and support efforts to heal and purify our earth and its people!
Food plants from high acre yields, forced by chemical fertilizers, contain more carbohydrates and are lower in protein and minerals. Potassium in the form of chemical fertilizers, or liming the soil, unless done with a magnesium limestone or dolomite, both cause such a severe lack of magnesium in food plants that magnesium deficiencies in humans have become widespread.
Calcium, magnesium, potassium and iron contents of vegetables from mineral-rich organic ground have ranged from four to many hundreds of times higher than those grown on soil long under cultivation. Foods from land rich in natural minerals and humus have a greater protein content than those grown in chemically fertilized soils.
Foods grown on healthy soils appear to produce superior human health. Furthermore, plants grown on well mineralized, composted and mulched land have a remarkable ability to remain healthy and are little bothered by pests. Thousands of organic farmers have proven that the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides are not needed. One of the factors detrimental to health is the passing of the home garden!
If space permitted, example upon example could be given as to the detrimental effect of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and additives. The destruction of amino acids, vitamins, minerals and proteins in our foods is high. The cumulative amounts and reactions of one chemical with another are magnified through additives. Some foods, such as white bread, are said to contain no fewer than 30 different additives. The soothing "no evidence for alarm" may well continue until irreparable damage has been done, if it hasn't already!
There is some evidence, for example, that sorbic acid and its salts, which are common preservatives, can combine with nitrites, popular food additives, to produce a chemical compound that may cause genetic mutations. Any toxic substance can harm the liver. Since all of us consume, with our foods, pesticides, additives, preservatives and nitrates, it's believed that everyone has liver damage to some extent. Any form of liver damage causes increased susceptibility to cancer. Also, susceptibility increases tremendously when diets are deficient in protein or essential amino acids.
Here’s why organics are healthier in one word – “pesticides”…
How healthy can food grown with deadly pesticides be?
Seriously. Yeah, there may not be ADDED health benefits to eating organics. You won’t run faster or get better eyesight (well maybe) but the point these reports are missing is what you LOSE by eating organics. You lose pesticides. Pesticides are poison. Pesticides were created to kill. Pesticides have been shown to cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, wheezing, rashes and other skin problems, chronic adverse effects on neurological function, cancer, reproductive harm, reduced growth and development, birth defects and more.
In children alone, pesticide poisoning is so serious that it’s been mistaken for issues such as brain hemorrhage, head trauma, diabetic acidosis, severe bacterial gastroenteritis, pneumonia and whooping cough.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that NOT having all the above health conditions is way healthier than having them.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Academy of Sciences, standard chemicals are up to ten times more toxic to children than to adults, depending on body weight. So if you think your adult organ systems are vulnerable imagine what toxic chemicals are doing to your kids.
Blood samples of children aged 2 to 4, have shown that concentrations of pesticide residues are six times higher in children eating conventionally farmed fruits and vegetables compared with those eating organic food.
The US Centers for Disease Control reports that a main sources of pesticide exposure for children comes from the foods they eat.
Worse the folks spraying crops with deadly pesticides really don’t care if they cause harm or not. The EPA doesn’t care if your family eats pesticides. In fact the EPA wanted to test low-income children by giving them MORE pesticides until people called them out as insane. Some of theparties who are supposed to certify organics don’t care. The USDA and FDA most certainly don’t care.
The OCA notes that the US Department of Agriculture “Strictly prohibits mixing different types of pesticides for disposal, due to the well known process of the individual chemicals combining into new highly toxic chemical compounds.” That said there are zero regulations when it comes to mixing pesticides for use by consumers and studies report that 62% of food products tested contain a measurable mixture of residues of at least three different pesticides. Nice!
Make no mistake, it’s up to YOU not any government agency to keep your kids safe from pesticides. Well, maybe the President’s Cancer Panel is taking some responsibility – see Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now (pdf). That’s a start.
In any case, a heaping platter of pesticides sure sounds like healthy fun to me.Other reasons why organics are healthier:
- Most people I know who tend to shell out bigger dollars for organics cut back in other food areas – i.e. processed foods, chips, etc. The cost difference ends up making organics a healthier choice when folks cut back eating non-nutritious food so they can afford organics.
- Organics don’t pollute our land, air and water systems.
- Organic farming doesn’t harm farmers and their families.
- Pesticides in non-organics may be linked to ADD and obesity.
One last thing – nutrients are a seriously weak point when it comes to health…
Organics and conventional foods may overall contain the same amount of nutrients (although many believe organics really do contain more nutrients) but nutrients aside, once you put toxic chemicals into the ground, which then goes into the food, which then goes into your body, it changes your body for better or worse and no amount of nutrients will help you out.
If you’re healthy to start with, hopefully your body will absorb the max amount of nutritional value from the foods you eat. If you’re sick because you’ve been munching on toxic pesticides, maybe your body is functioning worse and you’ll be less able to soak up all those healthy nutrients.
You so don’t have to be a scientist to know that eating poison means your body won’t function well. When I was in college for nursing we learned that when you’re sick you’re not absorbing the best nutrients possible plus when your body is under attack it may respond by feeling less hungry.
To sum up: I don’t care if organic foods have more nutritional value than conventional food or not. Hell, organic food could be LESS nutritious and I’d still feed them to my family over conventional. I’d rather have them lose a few nutrients and give them a multivitamin than have them eat poisonous pesticides.
What do you think? What’s more important about the whole conventional vs. organic debate – nutritional value or pesticides?
So I saw some of these articles and this is My conclusion. Eating Organic Is basically pennies different that conventional I feel strongly that Organic is tons better for your body digestive tract and your health. My personal experience has proven that when i personally eat a balanced organic Diet verses the conventional Slop that is what passes for food in the Grocery stores I feel healthier stronger and My meds have less interactions with my body in other words less side effects and I am able to keep a healthy body weight and healthier life style. But Please Tell me what you think as for me my diabetes is in better control my HIV is undetectable I have less headaches and my stomach doesn't hurt from peptic ulcer disease or gerd so please leave a comment talk about this when it comes to just a few cents difference in the wallet isn't it better to spend the extra penny for more flavorful and better for you food? Tell me what You think ........
So I saw some of these articles and this is My conclusion. Eating Organic Is basically pennies different that conventional I feel strongly that Organic is tons better for your body digestive tract and your health. My personal experience has proven that when i personally eat a balanced organic Diet verses the conventional Slop that is what passes for food in the Grocery stores I feel healthier stronger and My meds have less interactions with my body in other words less side effects and I am able to keep a healthy body weight and healthier life style. But Please Tell me what you think as for me my diabetes is in better control my HIV is undetectable I have less headaches and my stomach doesn't hurt from peptic ulcer disease or gerd so please leave a comment talk about this when it comes to just a few cents difference in the wallet isn't it better to spend the extra penny for more flavorful and better for you food? Tell me what You think ........
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