Organic Eating - Why Bother?

Originally, all foods were "organic" - grown and prepared without pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, hormones, irradiation to prevent spoilage, and microwave cooking.

Our food these days, whether of vegetable or animal origin, is not only deficient innutrients but also full of pollutants and farm chemicals. The modern denaturing offoods through massive refining and chemical treatment deeply affects theirEnergyRich ? qualities, making them devoid of the exact boost that we should begetting from our food.

Not only are they not giving us that KICK that we need, but many EnergyPoor?foods could actually be making us sick. As pesticides get lodged and increase in ourtissues, the immune system becomes weakened, allowing other carcinogens andpathogens to affect our health. Yuck!

Top five reasons to shop and eat organic foods

1. Fresh organic produce contains on average 50% more vitamins, minerals,enzymes and other micronutrients than intensively farmed produce.

2. If you eat dairy or meat products, eating organic has never been more essential tosafeguard your health. Intensively reared dairy cows and farm animals are feddangerous antibiotics, growth hormones, anti-parasite drugs and many othermedicines on a daily basis, whether they have an illness or not. These drugs arepassed directly onto the consumers of their dairy or meat, which contribute tomeat-related diseases like coronaries and high blood pressure.

3. Organic produce simply tastes better. Fruit and vegetables are much more full offlavor. Experiment with an organic carrot and a conventionally grown carrot. Whichis sweeter?

4. Organic food is not really more expensive than intensively farmed foods, as wepay for conventional foods through our taxes. We spend billions of dollars everyyear cleaning up the mess that agrochemicals make in our natural water supply.

5. The few extra cents you pay for organic food may save you hundreds, if notthousands of dollars in doctors' bills.

To your health and success, Heather

Heather Dominick is a Nutrition-Energy Consultant accredited by the AmericanAssociation of Drugless Practitioners and creator of The Energy Rich LifestyleProgram?. In addition to her nutrition services, she is a motivating and dynamicspeaker.

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