In the rush to produce more crops to satisfy growing demand, producers have had to resort to using a cocktail of pesticides to control disease and insect attack. Good news for their bank balances perhaps but not good news for your health, this is why you need to be informed of the advantages of organic food. Did you know that if you consumed an average apple you would be eating over 30 pesticides, even after you have washed it?

Organic food is known to contain 50% more nutrients, minerals and vitamins than produce that has been intensively farmed. You will have to eat more fruit nowadays to make up the deficiency, but unfortunately that means eating more chemicals, more potentially detrimental effects on your health eating something that should be good for you! Also don't forget about the cocktail of anti-biotics and hormones that cattle and poultry are force fed. What happens to those chemicals when the animal dies? Digested and stored in human bodies is a possible answer, have you seen pictures of animals in severely cramped conditions in battery farms? It seems logical to think that if they are unhappy and cramped then their meat might well be of lower quality. It cannot be coincidence that we are seeing more and more free range or organically fed meat turning up in our supermarkets. It just does not make sense to state that any animal kept in these conditions is healthy and produces high quality food. If you are as worried as I am about the health of your family then you need to seriously consider converting your family to the organic lifestyle.

Every day we seem to be reading in the news about this or that chemical having been linked to diseases due to the amount of toxicities such as:

• • Cancer
• • Obesity
• • Alzheimer's
• • Some birth defects

Not a nice list is it? There are probably others but if you think about it, how can it be okay for you to eat chemicals and not expect some form of reaction in your body? Our bodies are delicately balanced wonderful machines. Any form of foreign chemical is bound to cause irritation at the least and thus ultimately cause diseases.

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