Healthy Eating Habits: Healthy Reasons to Choose Organic Foods

Vikki Scovell at simplygoodstuff.com has an interesting article on organic foods. Here’s an excerpt:

Findings, made by Doctor Lu of Emory University in the US, show that children who consume an organic diet have less exposure to certain man-made chemicals. The children were tested for two common agricultural pesticides whilst eating a conventional diet, and then again 5 days after they started eating a mostly organic diet. The levels of the harmful chemicals (which have been linked to neurological disorders), fell dramatically within a number of days to a concentration six times lower than when the children were eating a conventional diet. The study concluded that children’s exposure to agricultural chemicals can be reduced through an organic diet, and also suggests that exposure to environmental agricultural chemicals would also be reduced with a switch to organic farming methods.

It’s important that more parents pay attention to what they’re feeding their children. The quality of our conventional food supply is much different than it used to be – before pesticides, fungicides and gmo’s were commonly used.

We need to remember that life long exposure to these agricultural chemicals and genetic modifications has not been tested. Do you really want to use your family as guinea pigs?

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