Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Let us put our money where our mouths are. Buy organic produce whenever possible.
Buying organic not only helps us avoid pesticide poisoning, but also supports the organic farmers who are rebuilding the soil. The more organic farmers there are, the less the organic produce will cost. According to a study at Tufts University, organic produce has a nutrient content approximately 88 percent higher than commercially grown produce. Other studies suggest organic food has even higher percentages of nutrients than commercially grown food. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Wash organic produce in either hydrogen peroxide or a special "veggie wash" solution. This will help destroy any parasites. If fresh organic produce is unavailable, select frozen over canned. It has more nutritional
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Avoid all processed foods made with refined cereal grains—commercial rolls, pasta, noodles, muffins, waffles, cookies, cake, doughnuts, pancakes, and crackers. value. Be sure to read labels, and avoid those foods that list chemical preservatives. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| The more organic farmers there are, the less the organic produce will cost. According to a study at Tufts University, organic produce has a nutrient content approximately 88 percent higher than commercially grown produce. Other studies suggest organic food has even higher percentages of nutrients than commercially grown food. This means that, by buying organic produce, we actually get more for our money and for our health.
The good news is that many people are listening. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Buy organic produce. In the context of food and farming, the term organic is used to imply that the produce was grown without the aid of synthetic chemicals, including pesticides and fertilizers. Although less than 3 percent of the total produce grown in the United States is grown without the aid of pesticides, organic produce is widely available.
2. If organic produce is not readily available, develop a good relationship with your local grocery store produce manager. Explain to him or her the desire to reduce your exposure to pesticides and waxes. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 This is a good enough reason to try and eat only organic produce if you can find it, and fortunately, most food stores these days have a good variety of organic produce.
Another reason, according to Professor Holgate, professor of clinical immunopharmacology at the University of Southampton, is that there have been changes in the immune system and in the natural bacteria in the gut. The environment in our bodies is too clean from sterilizing everything around us, and as a result, children's immune systems do not get boosted from natural bacteria. |
Michael Pollan
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 To the problem of being able to afford high-quality organic produce the garden offers the most straightforward solution: The food you grow yourself is fresher than any you can buy, and it costs nothing but an hour or two of work each week plus the price of a few packets of seed.
The work of growing food contributes to your health long before you sit down to eat it, of course, but there is something particularly fitting about enlisting your body in its own sustenance. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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| This is a good enough reason to try and eat only organic produce if you can find it, and fortunately, most food stores these days have a good variety of organic produce.
Another reason, according to Professor Holgate, professor of clinical immunopharmacology at the University of Southampton, is that there have been changes in the immune system and in the natural bacteria in the gut. The environment in our bodies is too clean from sterilizing everything around us, and as a result, children's immune systems do not get boosted from natural bacteria. |
Michael Pollan
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| If you're concerned about chemicals in your produce, you can simply ask the farmer at the market how he or she deals with pests and fertility and begin the sort of conversation be-
*One recent study found that the average item of organic produce in the supermarket had actually traveled farther from the farm than the average item of conventional produce. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Overall, organic plots were more profitable than the conventional plots because total costs were about 15 percent lower, and organic produce sold at a premium. Over the two-decade-long experiment, soil carbon and nitrogen contents increased in the organic plots.
In the mid-1980s, researchers led by Washingron State University's John Reganold compated the state of the soil, erosion rates, and wheat yields from two farms near Spokane in eastern Washington. One farm had been managed without the use of commercial fertilizers since first plowed in 1909. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Bringing in organic produce is also "on the radar screen."
Fortunately, overseeing an estimated $125 million-a-year food budget brings clout. Explains SchoolFood's executive director David Berkowitz: "Manufacturers are anxious to sell to New York City because many school districts throughout the country are following what we're doing, pushing the envelope to improve the nutrition of products in their schools. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 The situation becomes even more confusing when you consider that most "natural" cosmetics lines are sold at supermarkets that showcase organic produce and food products. When specialty grocery stores sell products that have strictly regulated organic labeling, many customers will never notice that the products in the other half of the store, where the cosmetics are sold, are backed by no such regulation, despite the similar labeling.
For more detailed information on the USDA organic standards, visit their Web site at www.ams.usda.gov/nop or call the National Organic Program at (202) 720-3252. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's what I believe, and I spend far more money on organic produce than I do on clothing, entertainment or even travel!)
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is especially useful for organic produce, which tends to ripen more quickly.)
Aloe vera extends lifespan
A study on rats showed aloe vera extends lifespan by 10 percent. The abstract on this study, shown here, explains the following:
A summary of results are as follows: Aloe ingestion, both crude and processed, was shown to extend (10%) average life span and slow the mortality rate doubling time. Also, several beneficial effects from aloe ingestion on age-related disease were found: Group 2 and 3 showed a lower incidence of atrial thrombosis than Group 1. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That way of life includes farming organic produce from the earth in the local sustainable way that honors nature. That's a miracle in action, and every time you purchase those foods, you support those local community miracles.
If you want your community to be made up of farmers who know the land, who can deliver fresh organic produce and who honor the earth, then that's what you need to buy because you support whatever you buy. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 When possible, eat only organic, hormone-free meat and dairy products.
Eat organic produce, which has not been sprayed with pesticides.
Wash all produce to rid it of any type of chemical residue or pesticides.
Throw away all pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. Never tent your house and fumigate it with pesticides. Research and use organic approaches and products for home gardening and pest control. |
Michael Pollan
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| As for supermarket organic produce, it too is likely to have come from far away—from the industrial organic farms of California or, increasingly, China.* And while it's true that the organic label guarantees that no synthetic pesticides or fertilizers have been used to produce the food, many, if not most, of the small farms that supply farmers' markets are organic in everything but name. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Purchase fresh organic produce, meats and milk free from rBGH rBGH is a hormone to increase milk production in cows. It causes mastitis requiring lots of antibiotics in ' cows that can be passed on to humans, which in turn, can create new incurable diseases. Buy produce at your local farmers' market or join a buying club. Purchase local organic produce in season. Vegetarians have far fewer endocrine disruptors found in their blood than people that consume meat. |
David R. Montgomery
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| When demand for organic produce began to skyrocket in the 1990s, industrial farms began planting monocultural stands of lettuce that retained the flaws of conventional agriculture—just without the pesticides.
Agroecology doesn't necessarily mean small farms instead of large farms. Haiti's tiny peasant farms destroyed soil on steep slopes just as effectively as the immense slave-worked plantations of the American South. And the problem isn't just mechanization. Roman oxen slowly stripped soil as effectively as the diesel-powered descendants of John Deere's plows. |
Jack Challem
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 Whole Foods
At Whole Foods, the emphasis is on wholesome, natural foods, including free-range meats, organic produce, and a wide variety of other healthful food products. For more information, go to www.wholefoods.com.
Wild Oats
This national chain emphasizes natural and gourmet foods. Wild Oats' meat departments offer free-range meats. For more information, call (800) 494-WILD or go to www.wildoats.com.
Specialty Foods and Other Products
Blue Diamond Natural
This company makes "Nut-Thins," some of the best snack crackers you'll find all free of wheat and gluten products. |
David R. Montgomery
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| The average piece of organic produce sold in American supermarkets travels some 1,500 miles between where it is grown and where it is consumed. Over the long run, when we consider the effect on the soil and on a post-oil world, markets for food may work bettet (although not necessarily more cheaply) if they are smaller and less integrated into a global economy, with local markets selling local food. As it becomes increasingly expensive to get food produced elsewhere to the people, it will become incteasingly attractive to take food production to the people—into the cities. |
| Oddly, our government subsidizes conventional farming practices, whereas the market places a premium on organic produce. A number of recent studies report that organic farming methods not only retain soil fertility in the long term, but can prove cost effective in the short term.
In 1974, under the leadership of ecologist Barry Commoner, the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Washington University in St. Louis began comparing the performance of organic and conventional farms in the Midwest. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Researchers found that pesticide levels in children's bodies dropped to zero after just a few days of eating organic produce and grains.
"After they switch back to a conventional diet, the levels go up," says Chensheng Lu, coauthor of the study and an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health at Emory University in Atlanta.
THE STUDY
Lu says the impetus for the study was a previous research project that examined pesticide levels in 110 children and found only one child whose body was pesticide-free—a child who regularly ate organic food. |
Jack Challem
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 Whole Foods
Like Wild Oats, the emphasis is on wholesome, natural foods, including free-range meats, organic produce, and a wide variety of other healthful food products. For more information, go to www.wholefoods.com.
Wild Oats
This national chain emphasizes natural and gourmet foods. Wild Oats' meat departments offer free-range meats. Wild Oats was recently purchased by Whole Foods; the fate of individual Wild Oats stores has not been announced at the time of this book's writing, nor has the overall policy as to whether Wild Oats will keep its name. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| According to a study at Tufts University, organic produce has a nutrient content approximately 88 percent higher than commercially grown produce. Other studies suggest organic food has even higher percentages of nutrients than commercially grown food. This means that, by buying organic produce, we actually get more for our money and for our health.
The good news is that many people are listening. The total of organic products sold has grown at a rate of about 20 percent per year in recent years, and many supermarkets now stock organic products. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Organic produce can be found in select health food stores, as well as in some supermarkets and greenmarkets and through food co-ops.
When choosing your produce, look for fruits and vegetables that are at the peak of ripeness. These contain more vitamins and enzymes than do foods that are underripe or overripe, or that have been stored for any length of time. The longer a food is kept in storage, the more nutrients it loses.
Once you get your organic produce home, running water and a vegetable brush are probably all that will be needed to get it ready for the table. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Buy organic produce, which is grown without the aid of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Although less than 3 percent of the total produce in the United States is grown without pesticides, organic produce is widely available.
• Develop a good relationship with your local grocery store produce manager. Explain your desire to reduce your exposure to pesticides and waxes. Ask what measures the store takes to ensure that pesticide residues are within approved limits. Ask where the store gets its produce. |
| Although less than 3 percent of the total produce grown in the United States is grown without the aid of pesticides, organic produce is widely available.
2. If organic produce is not readily available, develop a good relationship with your local grocery store produce manager. Explain to him or her the desire to reduce your exposure to pesticides and waxes. Ask what measures the store takes to ensure that pesticide residues are within the tolerance limits. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 If you are eating whole, fresh, natural foods, such as produce, legumes and whole grains from the bulk bins, you will be spending much less than what you would spend on processed foods of any kind and getting much greater nutritional value for your money. organic produce used to be significantly more expensive across the board, but today it is often no more than, and occasionally even less than the non-organic produce. Check the prices and see for yourself. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| When we eat organic produce, we reap the benefits of the natural chemicals that plants have originally made for their own protection.
Let me give you an example. The phytonutrients in apples include chemicals called phenolic acids that defend the fruit against viruses, bacteria, and fungi. In this group of phenolics, a large family of chemicals that includes the flavonoids, is a natural antioxidant called quercetin that protects apples against disease. |
Ron Garner
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 Studies have shown that organic produce contains significantly higher levels of minerals and fewer heavy metals than conventionally grown crops.13
READ THOSE LABELS!
We need to become aware of the ingredients that are in the products we consume, put on our body, or clean with. To do this, we must read labels!
If you are not already in this habit, you may be in for a surprise. For instance, most brands of toothpaste contain three ingredients that pose health risks if too much is ingested. |
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