Choose organic fruits and vegetables whenever possible. This especially goes for fruits and vegetables that don't have a protective skin on them. But unfortunately like everything else, organic comes at a certain price. New research shows that it's more important to buy certain foods organically
than it is others. Here's a list just to name a few...
- Milk- Antibiotics and hormones are used to increase profits. Organic dairies
cannot feed their cows with grains grown with pesticides, nor can they
use antibiotics or growth hormones.
- Meat- Raising animals using hormones to speed up growth, antibiotics to
resist disease and pesticides to grow the grain fed to the animals helps to increase supply (thus increase profit). Unfortunately whatever the animals ingest, you do too. To meet
USDA standards, organic meat can come only from animals fed organic feed
and given no hormones or antibiotics.
- Coffee- Many of the beans are grown in countries that don't regulate use
of chemicals and pesticides. Look for the Fair Trade Certified Organic
label on the coffee package or can.
- Peaches
- Apples- No matter how hard or how much you scrub, you won't eliminate all the
chemical residue that can be found on the apple skin. Remove the skin?
Then you lose a lot of nutrients and fiber.
- Celery Celery has no protective skin, so it’s almost impossible to wash off the chemicals.
- Strawberries
- Lettuce- frequently contaminated with what are considered the most potent pesticides
- Grapes
- Tomatoes- Chemicals can easily penetrate the skin.
- Corn- A lot of corn today is being genetically modified to keep up with supply and demand and to keep costs down. Genetically modified means the genes and DNA have been altered, you think that won't affect what happens inside your body?
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