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Health Benefits Of Organic Food

Benefits Of Eating Organic Foods: Health

When we talk of organic foods, we are talking about food that is grown without the use of chemical fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides, herbicides, irradiation, artificial ripening agents, preservatives, genetically modified foods, hormones, and antibiotics.

These items are used in conventional and commercial farming in order to increase the quantity of crop and growth of livestock.

Imagine with me if you will how much of these chemicals the average American ingests. Who knows what the side effects will be in the long term.

If you think you are getting rid of these chemicals by washing your food, you’re wrong. What about the chemicals that have already entered into the food? You can’t get rid those.

The words above that end with the suffix “cides” are used to kill other living creatures. It makes me wonder if our cells are dying due to some of these products that haven’t been completely washed off of certain foods.

Benefits of Eating Organic Foods: An Interesting Story

Here is an interesting story I read not too long ago. In some soil you can’t find a worm. Due to using artificial fertilizers, the soil becomes too acidic. Not even a worm can survive in that type of an environment.

There used to be a large number of nine inch earthworms living in the soils of Australia. Having introduced an artificial fertilizer, namely a sulfur phosphate fertilizer, all of the earthworms were exterminated.

The soil the crops were grown in can’t even keep a worm alive. Those same crops are unfit to eat. It has been written that over 200,000 people die from these chemicals a year.

Now there is some cross pollination into organic fields due to bugs and flying insects. However, for the most part you don’t have to worry about any of the above if you buy and eat organic food.

There hasn’t been a lot of studies, at least reliable ones in this area. However, the preliminary tests suggest that organic food has quite a bit more minerals than commercially grown food. As much as 90% more.

This information implies that organic food is much more nutritious. When a food has a lot of quality minerals in it, you can count on it also having a lot of quality vitamins and phytonutrients.

Benefits Of Eating Organic Foods: The Environment

Due to conventional farming practices, up to three billion tons of topsoil are eroded in the U.S. from croplands each year. It takes approximately 700 years to develop an inch of topsoil, but only a short while to destroy it.

Organic farming does the opposite. It produces better topsoil by crop rotation and using compost.

In terms of our quality of water, “The EPA estimates that pesticides pollute the primary source of drinking water for more than half the country’s population.” Some of the components of these pesticides and fertilizers are in the water run off from the fields.

When too much is collected in wells and ponds, it becomes unfit for human consumption. It is interesting to note that even some American farmers can’t drink from their own wells. This is just one more good reason to grow organic crops.

It takes more energy to produce artificial fertilizers than it does to grow foods through organic farming. It is less expensive to farm organically than it is to farm conventionally.

Benefits Of Eating Organic Foods: The Society

We need to support and help our local farmers. More and more farmers are turning to organic farming, but the road won’t be easy in the beginning.

Some losses may be sustained in the beginning, but after two or three years things start to even out. Then profits start to materialize. Meanwhile we can support our local farmers by purchasing their organic foods.

Organic foods are usually more expensive than conventional or commercial foods. However, with more and more farmers jumping on board the price of organic food will get less expensive.

Don’t think conventional farming is less expensive. A side effect often seen is hazardous waste and environmental damage. Do you think they pay for that? Not at all. Our tax dollars pay for the waste and environmental clean up.

The bottom line for every conscientious individual is to buy organic for your health, as a support to society, and the environment.

Sources:

Francis, Raymond M.Sc. and Cotton, Kester. Never Be Sick Again. Deerfield Beach. Health communications, Inc. 2002. 152 Null, Gary Ph.D. Gary Null’s Power Aging. New York. New American Library, a division of Penguin Group, Inc. 2003. 27, 28 Perry, Luddene and Schultz, Dan. A Field Guide To Buying Organic. New York. Bantam Dell, A Division of Random House, Inc. 2005. 40 Pitchford, Paul. Healing with Whole Foods. Berkeley. North Atlantic Books. 2002. 19

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