Why You Should Be Eating Organic, Part 1

Our great-great-grandparents lived on a 100% totally organic diet. Modern day farming methods that involve the use of genetically modified organisms like those engineered to withstand the ever-present Roundup by Monsanto, synthetic fertilizers, other pesticides, and other herbicides, specifically those containing the cancer-causing chemical known as glyphosate, simply did not exist back then. Over the last century or so, our dietary habits and our farming practices have been altered significantly. Our bodies and our genetics, however, have not. You cannot expect to fuel your body or to reach optimal physical or mental health by eating food laced with poisonous, carcinogenic chemicals that your body doesn’t even recognize.

Eating all of this chemical-laced food has also brought up the issue of chronic inflammation. Your immune system, which is designed to keep you healthy, becomes stimulated when your body recognizes anything that is foreign, an invading microbe or chemical, for example. This then sets off a process called inflammation. Periodic bits of inflammation directed at threatening bodily invaders helps to keep you healthy. Sometimes inflammation persists, though. It lasts day in and day out because the foreign invader it is perceiving is coming into your body right along with the very food you eat. It’s all those chemicals that were used to grow your food to the perfect color and the perfect size and to keep the creepy crawlies and weeds away from it.  This is exactly when inflammation becomes your enemy. Many major diseases that plague our society today, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, depression, and Alzheimer’s, have been linked to chronic inflammation and chronic inflammation has been linked directly to the food we eat.

The single most important tool to combat this chronic inflammation comes not from the pharmacy, but from the grocery store. You can pay your local farmer now, or you can pay your doctor later. The choice is entirely up to you.

Reduce Your Body’s Toxicity

Plants and animals that are labeled organic will not have been treated with:

• Pesticides
• Antibiotics
• Herbicides
• Growth hormones
• Fertilizers from synthetic ingredients or sewage sludge
• Ionizing radiation

Manufactured pesticides and herbicides are dangerous by their very nature. If you partake of the modern Western diet then you are exposed to these poisons on a daily basis. Animal products fare no better. Most livestock is fed a diet of soy and corn which, in addition to not being their natural diet, 90% of both of those crops are genetically modified. Their feed is also rich with antibiotics and hormones. The antibiotics are necessary because of the multitude of sicknesses they get from deplorable living conditions, and the hormones are “necessary” because factory farming wants all the meat a full-grown cow produces but does not feel like actually waiting for the cow to mature. It also makes them produce unnatural amounts of milk so that more can be sold, thereby making the company more money. This increased milk production, in turn, causes even more infections, resulting in the administration of even MORE antibiotics, all of which find their way into your family’s milk and other dairy products.

A study that was conducted back in 2005 has shown that switching to a 100% organic diet can drastically reduce the amount of pesticide and herbicide related toxins in your body in as little as 15 days. If you are taking a while to warm up to the idea of eating organically, you can help yourself and your family out by making an effort to avoid foods that accelerate the inflammatory disease process, such as:

• Refined carbohydrates such as white bread and pastries
• Fried foods such as french fries and fried chicken
• Soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages
• Red meat such as hamburgers and steaks
• Processed meats such as hot dogs and sausages
• Margarine also including shortening and lard

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