| "> | | | | 2. If you eat dairy or meat products, eating organic has |
| Originally, all foods were "organic" - grown and | | | | never been more essential tosafeguard your health. |
| prepared without pesticides, herbicides, chemical | | | | Intensively reared dairy cows and farm animals are |
| fertilizers, hormones, irradiation to prevent spoilage, and | | | | feddangerous antibiotics, growth hormones, |
| microwave cooking. | | | | anti-parasite drugs and many othermedicines on a daily |
| Our food these days, whether of vegetable or animal | | | | basis, whether they have an illness or not. These drugs |
| origin, is not only deficient innutrients but also full of | | | | arepassed directly onto the consumers of their dairy |
| pollutants and farm chemicals. The modern denaturing | | | | or meat, which contribute tomeat-related diseases like |
| offoods through massive refining and chemical | | | | coronaries and high blood pressure. |
| treatment deeply affects their | | | | 3. Organic produce simply tastes better. Fruit and |
| Energy qualities, making them devoid of the exact | | | | vegetables are much more full offlavor. Experiment |
| boost that we should begetting from our food. | | | | with an organic carrot and a conventionally grown |
| Not only are they not giving us that KICK that we | | | | carrot. Whichis sweeter? |
| need, but many Energyfoods could actually be making | | | | 4. Organic food is not really more expensive than |
| us sick. As pesticides get lodged and increase in | | | | intensively farmed foods, as wepay for conventional |
| ourtissues, the immune system becomes weakened, | | | | foods through our taxes. We spend billions of dollars |
| allowing other carcinogens andpathogens to affect our | | | | everyyear cleaning up the mess that agrochemicals |
| health. Yuck! | | | | make in our natural water supply. |
| Top five reasons to shop and eat organic foods | | | | 5. The few extra cents you pay for organic food may |
| 1. Fresh organic produce contains on average 50% | | | | save you hundreds, if notthousands of dollars in |
| more vitamins, minerals,enzymes and other | | | | doctors' bills. |
| micronutrients than intensively farmed produce. | | | | |