Hello Friends,
I hope your week has had the fair weather that mine has.
I read two studies which encouraged me to keep at my work.
The first was a report by The Center for Advancement of Health. It reported that school age children who ate organic foods instead of conventional foods had six times lower levels of pesticide by-products in their bodies.
The second study was by The National Institute of Health. The study had 23 children aged 3 to 11 who ate their normal diet for the first three days. Researchers found all 23kids had metabolites of malathion and chloropyrifos pesticides in their urine when they enrolled in the study.
For the next five days, the children ate organic replacements of many foods in their usual diet. As soon as they switched to organic diets, these pesticide metabolites dropped and remained at zero levels until "conventional" food was reintroduced. In the final week, the children resumed their normal diet and the metabolites of pesticides returned.
The authors of the study "Environmental Health Perspectives" wrote: "We were able to demonstrate that an organic diet provides a dramatic and immediate protective effect against exposures to organophosphorus pesticides that are commonly used in agricultural production."
2 comments:
Hi Wende,
First of all, congratulations for your blog and for the work that you do everyday... nowadays we really need people like you... people that gives more importance to life quality in terms of health than in terms of money.
My family lives if Florida but I live in Italy. Here in the past few years there's been a huge concern regarding organic agriculture, and since I moved here in Italy I became more and more interested in all this matters.
I started buying only organic food and trying to live a sustainable life, thinking also about the effects that my lifestyle can have in the environment.
My family is not very into the sustainable lifestyle, but I'm pushing them into it... I was looking for organic food stores in FL and at the end I ended up in your blog.
About your article, reading that and other things that I read here in Italy everyday is what pushes me to encourage people to change lifestyle and, as I say, "not to be like a sheep"... that follows the others without asking to themselves if it is right or wrong.
Keep up the work Wende! you are doing an excellent job!
Anna
Great site. Thanks for the info on the children. I like our aucapello in the background. I had the grateful dead jamming on the computer and then your voices came on and filled it just right... that was weird.
Thanks, Jason
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