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remember as a child, my best friend told me that just washing my apple with water wasn’t good
enough. Instead, I needed to use soap as well to get the apple really clean. At the time, I didn’t know what could pos- sibly be on the apple that was bad for me. Dirt? Worm poop? Those couldn’t be that bad, so I was perplexed. I mean, wasn’t an apple a day supposed to keep the doctor away? Fast-forward 20 years and I find myself looking at food,
and apples, in a whole new light. With talk about the dangers of pesticides used to protect apples while growing, and even discussion about possible negative side effects from genetic modification of seeds to increase crop yield, it’s hard to know if eating anything is actually good for us anymore. Maybe we should just live on encapsulated nutrients instead of food? Isn’t food just a source of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and ma- cronutrients anyhow? Why not just forgo real food and simply consume the basics to survive? Because, well, that’d be no fun and we’d inevitably miss out on something in food that could never be replaced by any pill or powder made in a lab. So, how do we know what’s safe? How do we select the right foods to prevent the development of cancer or even dia-
betes? How do we eat food that actually enhances our health in- stead of making us sick or diseased? Can we trust the FDA? Can we trust the USDA? Are they looking out for our
best interests or do we need to become more educated? Well, I’d love to be able to tell you that the FDA and the govern- ment are always on our side, but I can’t, and
I don’t know all the details of why they are or aren’t. What I can tell you is that there is information out there that can help us make the healthiest and safest choices possible when filling our carts at the grocery store or farmer’s market.
Is Organic Food Safer than Conventional?
One of the ways many of us have decided to improve
our health is by choosing foods that are grown in an organic manner. Oftentimes we think that organic foods contain no synthetic materials, less or no pesticides, and less bacterial contamination, but that is not always the case.
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