Research has yet to prove an adverse health effect from consuming the low levels of pesticides commonly found in U.S. food. But for the most vulnerable groups -- children and pregnant women -- going organic whenever possible for fruits and vegetables that carry the heaviest pesticide load makes sense. For organic meat, poultry, eggs, and milk, the direct health benefit is less clear.
Pesticide contaminants pose the biggest risk to children and fetuses. Pesticides have been shown to cross the placenta during pregnancy, and a study by scientists at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health in New York found a link between pesticide use in New York apartments and impaired fetal growth.
Why do we have to wait for until nutrition research proves that there are any adverse health effects for adults or not?
This seems slightly absurd.
I'm tired of the media waiting for nutrition research. If we wait for another 20 year comprehensive study to be completed, we're going to die in the process. We have to start taking nutrition advice from our own common sense.
Research was inconclusive about cigarettes and asbestos once upon a time also.
Pesticides kill bugs. They kill living matter. They kill your cells.
If I had an organic apple and sprayed Raid all over it, would you eat it?
No.
If I then took the apple--sprayed with Raid--and washed it under the sink right in front of you... then handed it to you to eat.
Would you still eat it?
I hope not.
We are slaves to this nutrition advice... we hang on every word of it.
Stop today.
Do you really think that something that might be bad for babies could possibly be good for us?
Please remove your head from the dirt and start living fantastically.
Eat organic. Smile. You'll be OK!
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