A study published recently in Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, concluded that conventionally grown fruits, vegetables, and juices sold in grocery stores contain residues of brain-damaging pesticides. The study was conducted on school age children in Seattle, Washington. The urine of school children who ate conventionally grown foods were tested and compared with the urine of children who ate organic food. The children who ate conventionally grown foods had 6 times the pesticide residues in their urine than children who ate organic food.
An EPA spokesman told the Post-Intelligencer that the "amount of these pesticides used on kids' foods (has undergone) a 57 per cent reduction." What are "kids' food?" The last time I checked my grandsons ages 3 and 7 ate the same food as the rest of us. "The standards we impose on domestic produce," in Chensheng Lu's words, who by the way is a member of the EPA's pesticide advisory panel, make it sound like standards are high.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has mandated that no organic food can contain added hormones, antibiotics, synthetic pesticides, irradiated components, genetically modified organisms, or reprocessed sewage. No such mandate exists for conventionally grown food, not to forget this same organization permits a certain amount of pus to remain in non-organic milk. So called "safe levels" of pesticides are usually established for adults, not children. A child's body is smaller, as is the liver, so the body is not as well equipped to handle the toxins in the food. Malignancies in children linked to pesticides include leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and cancers of the brain.
Let's stop kidding ourselves. Eliminating exposure for our children as well as ourselves begins with the foods with the highest pesticide concentrations, according to the USDA itself: conventionally grown green peppers, celery, green beans, strawberries, peaches, and grapes. And stop drinking non-organic milk which contains residues of added hormones, antibiotics, and, yes, pus. Make the switch to organics for these foods and start your family on the road to health.
As a breast cancer survivor who also battled liver disease, Sandy Powers turned to organic foods to heal her liver and fight cancer recurrence. Sandy shares her research and amazing health results in "Organic for Health." Visit Sandy at http://www.organicforhealthsite.com
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