Study Says Organic Food Is No Healthier Than Non-Organic: Do You Agree?
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2012/09/05 18:00:00
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CA.NEWS.YAHOO.COM reports:
Organic produce and meat typically isn't any better for you than conventional varieties when it comes to vitamin and nutrient content, according to a new review of the evidence. But organic options may live up to their billing of lowering exposure to pesticide residue and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, researchers from Stanford University and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System found.
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Top Opinion
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lucky 2012/09/04 14:41:19No, organic is healthier!
+20The study only shows its the same in Vitamin and Nutrient content, it fails to mention the potential harm of certain chemicals and hormones contained in non-organic food, regardless, I prefer organic not because of possible health benefits but because of taste and composition and although it may cost more, I end up getting more for my money.
As for my strawberries, there weren't any. I remember seeing a bunch of them when they were still green, so I can only assume that birds picked them off as soon as they started to look tasty. I guess you can't expect to plant something digestible in spring and expect it to still be there in the autumn unless you poison every creature that might want to have a bite.
Anyway, I say it's healthier for those of you that buy from farmer's markets and stuff. Since the small farms are usually the best and have the highest quality product. Just a higher quality product is better for you, with some good compost to get all the nutrients in the fruit body that you need. I won't say anything about GMO because, honestly, we won't be able to feed the world without GMO foods and it's still too early to tell any long-term effects.
it household cleaners and air pollutants. We had no washer and dryer no electricity no running water but I survived so did a lot of families and things were better and stress was very low. Oh how I wish for that life, I'm spoiled now with all the things we have. Food is better when you grow it yourself trust me it taste better too. It took a lot of getting use to, eating foreign food. Either way we are all doomed because this is what is available to us.
http://grist.org/food/organic...
The difference between an organic banana and the old kind is that the organic one has little tarantula footprints on its skin. You can't see them, but they are there.
[I'll spare my fellow arachnophobes and won't insert the tarantula picture here.]
I eat inorganic as well because I think the chances of damage are small, but you know, you can always win the lottery.
In the field of environmental health science is an often-used term: Low-level, long-term exposure. This gets to the real issue of organic foods compared with the rest.
First, the study dodges the real question when it compares nutritional levels. It does answer the question of whether these pesticides, artificial chemical fertilizers and antibiotics do anything to enhance food quality: NO. They don't. So why use them. But while a little pesticide on your potato skin may not kill you today, try making a habit of having it that lasts fifty years and let's compare with the control.
Anyway, more to the point, statistics are in. The spike in the number of cancer and tumor cases in both humans and their pets during the past half century is nothing short of staggering. SOMEthing is causing it ... the question is - What?
Books have been written on this subject. My primary experience with this has been not only losing family and friends to cancer and other illnesses related to unhealthy life habits including diet and lifestyle, but also watching my dog deteriorate as I was told first one thing then another till I finally went out and did the research myself. And you may ...
In the field of environmental health science is an often-used term: Low-level, long-term exposure. This gets to the real issue of organic foods compared with the rest.
First, the study dodges the real question when it compares nutritional levels. It does answer the question of whether these pesticides, artificial chemical fertilizers and antibiotics do anything to enhance food quality: NO. They don't. So why use them. But while a little pesticide on your potato skin may not kill you today, try making a habit of having it that lasts fifty years and let's compare with the control.
Anyway, more to the point, statistics are in. The spike in the number of cancer and tumor cases in both humans and their pets during the past half century is nothing short of staggering. SOMEthing is causing it ... the question is - What?
Books have been written on this subject. My primary experience with this has been not only losing family and friends to cancer and other illnesses related to unhealthy life habits including diet and lifestyle, but also watching my dog deteriorate as I was told first one thing then another till I finally went out and did the research myself. And you may have guessed that progress in developing organic pet foods lags a good generation behind organics for humans.
But - isn't that how many discoveries are made .. by doing research on animals? Without getting into my personal views about all that I will just say that a dog lives only a fraction of a human lifetime so it was easier to trace the cause to the effect as her nerve tumor went from her front leg to her spinal cord and she slowly lost all ability to stand, walk, in short there was nothing anyone could do other than make her comfortable till the end. She was somewhere in the neighborhood of eleven. Healthy labs and collies can and do live half again that long.
Many vets had given up the practice in disgust after seeing the number of cases like mine spike out of control during their careers and had put their thoughts into print. I have three separate books now on the subject. I really don't need any more convincing.
But if anyone still does I will do my best to fill them in. I just swear by organics in both my own and my pets' diets and so far so good.
Just remember that organic means just that. Not just pesticide free, but free of ANY chemical additives. It starts with the soil. You can't just wash it away. They conspicuously missed that point also. Or, then again, perhaps a long life isn't what appeals to everyone. Hey, different strokes.
And on the matter of fertilizer, do you really want something that literally came out of another creature's anus as opposed to something clean made in a lab?
And then there's the taste. If you like eating cardboard, organic crap is right for you. Me, I like flavor. The only reason I ever visit the organic section is to see if they have something strange that I've never seen before.