Guest guest Posted April 6, 2000 Report Share Posted April 6, 2000 Organic vegetables are many times higher in nutritional content. Also you cannot remove all contamination from them. maybe 50% at best. The chemicals are in the food not just on the outside. Remember, in order for food to be called organic the fields must be pesticide free, herbicide free for 5 years. This indicates to me that the toxic stuff is in the soil and gets into the plants. rheumatic organic food > Hi Group, > > I read in Dr. Weil's home page that if you buy the regular store > produce just soak it in water with some vinegar added, and that will > help clean the chemicals from the surface of the vegetables and > fruit. You can read about it on his home page Dr.Weil.com > > Hugs, Agnes > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 6, 2003 Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 In a message dated 5/6/2003 10:33:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, BetsyWestie@... writes: << These vegetables are for my husband. Have they been sprayed with any poisonous chemicals?' " " And he said, 'No, ma'am. You'll have to do that yourself.' " >> LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 oh my goodness about the diet. I told this one guy that I eat organic and he responded by stating " YOu are unemployed and you eat organic... " I'm like " yeah, what the hell does one have to do with the other. " I almost thought I might have said filet mignot or something... THEN I WAS LIKE " ORGANIC " . Really it is not that much more expensive especially when it means it will give my children and I a better quality of life. I was amazed about what ignorance people say... I am not on Public assistance/ or Food stamps or anything like that but even those people have to eat what they like... In fact I would applaud people who are at poverty level and recognize that even when they are poor they still have a brain to eat healthy and feed their children healthy foods. --- Jodi Harvatin <jodskiinca@...> wrote: > Hi April, > > I do not notice a difference so far. My oldest > child does have > learning problems, but I am pretty convinced that it > has to do with > his horrible birth and being pulled out with forceps > and a vacuum > extractor. Ugh...don't even get me started. I wish > I had known then > what I know now and I would never have let them > induce me. > > Other than that, I have noticed nothing, but they've > all been > breastfed for years and I have always tried to feed > them healthy foods > and not the standard American diet (which is getting > harder now that > one is a teenager!). > > So, I don't know if my 13 yr. old's learning > problems are partly > because of the vaccinations. He had everything up > to his 18 or 2 yr. > shots as did my 10 yr. old. I didn't even know I > had a choice, but I > was a receptionist in a doctor's office at the time > and that's just > what they did! That and circumcision. Ugh...don't > get me started > there either. I didn't know I had a choice with > that! Sigh.... > Guilt, guilt, guilt!! > > Jodi > > On 8/18/05, wings <wingsout@...> wrote: > > Hi, I was wondering since you have unvaccinated > kids, particially vaccinated kids, and almost fully > vaccinated kids, if you have noticed a difference in > their health and how? > > > April Howell > " When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies. " ~U.S.Representative Ron , MD The Nuremberg Code (to which NZ is a signatory) describes Informed Choice as: - A choice made on the basis of adequate information concerning research and all available alternatives. - A choice made without controlling influences such as force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching or other forms of constraint or coercion. Does this not apply to us? ____________________________________________________ Start your day with - make it your home page http://www./r/hs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Eat RAW. Eat Plants. Eat Organic. Organic Food Fends Off Pesticides 02.20.06, 12:00 AM ET MONDAY, Feb. 20 (HealthDay News) -- If you are looking to banish pesticides from your child's diet, new research suggests that organic food will do the trick, at least when it comes to two common pesticides. 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, " said study co-author Chensheng Lu, an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health at Emory University. But Lu acknowledged that organic food is often more expensive than conventional food, and he added that the health risks of the pesticides in question aren't entirely clear. According to the study, it has been difficult to figure out exactly how much pesticide residue children are exposed to when they eat food that was treated as it grew in the field. Lu said the impetus for the new study was a previous research project that examined pesticide levels in 110 children and only found one child whose body was pesticide-free -- a child who regularly ate organic food. His team looked at two common pesticides known as organophosphorus. According to Lu, their use in residential areas is banned, but they're still used by growers. In 2003, researchers recruited 23 children from Seattle-area schools, all aged 3-11. Researchers monitored levels of two organophosphorus pesticides -- malathion and chlorpyrifos -- in their urine during a 15-day period in which they alternated between their regular diets and diets featuring organic fruits, vegetables and grain products. The findings were to be discussed Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis. The study, funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, appeared online last September in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The researchers found that the pesticide levels dropped immediately when the children started eating the organic foods. The staying power of the pesticides was " relatively short, " Lu said. " Whether that is important in terms of health effects remains to be seen, " Lu added, noting that scientists don't know exactly how the pesticides affect the body over time. There is evidence that they're dangerous, said Dr. M. Graber, a fellow in pediatric environmental health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. " We know that at high doses, these pesticides can cause serious symptoms because they are toxic to the nervous system, " he said, adding that there's " sound scientific reasoning " suggesting that low doses can hurt the developing brain. What should parents do? Kids should be eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, regardless of whether they are organically grown, because the benefits greatly outweigh the risk, Graber said. " Parents should not feed their children less nutritious foods out of fear of pesticides. " Foods that are especially vulnerable to pesticide residue include strawberries, nectarines, peaches, apples, pears and cherries, Lu said. Some other foods, such as bananas and oranges, aren't as vulnerable, he added. http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2006/02/20/hscout531114.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Eat raw? If it's fish or meat you better darn well cook it. And some veggies, such as tomatoes release more " goodies " such as lycopene when eaten cooked! AFA pesticides, we had some posts a while back about rinsing with plain water which washes off most of the pesticide. And of course when you buy organic, much of the time you have no idea if it's really organic or not. on 2/20/2006 3:15 PM, drsusanforshey at drsusanforshey@... wrote: Eat RAW. Eat Plants. Eat Organic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Dear All According to latest research it is found that if you eat chemical free food which is organically grown, you can live a healthy life. It is time when every body should start only to use organic food, clothes and other products which have organic back ground. It is safe, healthy and helps us to reduce a lot of health problems. Even researchers say organic food will protect against cancer and also it can cure. This is simple advice for all those who are health concious. Take care Kumar From: dwntwngrl2 Does anyone have a source for papya leaves other than growing a plant? Are any of the commercially sold leaves any good? thx KC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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