Posted on 04/19/2024 6:19:36 AM PDT by libh8er
Popular produce from blueberries to potatoes poses a 'very high risk' of unhealthy pesticides linked to cancer and diabetes, a new report has revealed.
Nonprofit Consumer Reports analyzed seven years of Department of Agriculture data to identify the fruit and vegetables with the most pesticides that pose the most 'unacceptable health risks'.
They found pesticides posed a 'significant risk' in a shocking 20 percent of the 59 common fruits and vegetables they studied.
Blueberries, potatoes and bell peppers were deemed very high risk while green beans, kale and watermelon were high risk - meaning pregnant women and children should limit how much they eat them.
In the studied green beans, researchers shockingly found 'residues of a pesticide that hasn't been allowed to be used on the vegetable in the US for over a decade.'
Pesticides are sprayed onto crops to manage insects and weeds but they contaminate produce, it can pose a risk of cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
The analysis was based on 30,000 samples of 59 types of fruit and vegetables, including fresh, frozen, canned and organic, collected from supermarkets by the USDA.
Foods were then scored on their levels of pesticides, the corresponding health risks they posed and broken down by grown in the US and imported.
Apples, grapes, peaches, tomatoes, spinach and celery were considered moderate risk while green beans, kale and watermelon were high risk and blueberries, potatoes and bell peppers were deemed very high risk.
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This has been reported for years.
Just the other day, someone offered me a strawberry of a box fresh bought; I declined, for just these reasons.
Walking down the isle
of the grocery store yesterday
I said to myself,
“All this food trying to kill me.”
Food, food everywhere
and not a bite fit to eat.
perfect chaser for the banana and grapes I ate for breakfast.
Makes me wonder how contaminated are the bugs (pests) they want us to eat.
The "high risk" is based on extrapolations of much higher levels of chemicals.
All life is risk.
The dose makes the poison. At some level, chemicals are harmless.
These scare articles all assume there is no safe level, in spite of a hundred years of knowledge to the opposite.
You should be very concerned and let us take control of your food. You can eat ze bugs or you can starve. It's for your health.
What does "unhealthy amounts" even mean? Who decides? What is the evidence?
Time for back yards to become gardens and learn how to do canning.
Eat as locally as you can and as cleanly as you can. But, balance in all things, so have a Twinkie once in a while. ;)
The Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15 Foods:
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/ewg-dirty-dozen-and-clean-15-lists
P.S. Most of these can be grown in a home garden, depending upon your location.
They also ignore pro-active actions that promote apathogy (internal cell cleansing) and apoptosis (death of defective cells), such as fasting, fasting mimicking diet, and exercise. We also soak the exterior of fruit/vegetables with vinegar and a drop if soap to remove external chemicals.
However, this makes me wonder about Wyman’s blueberries. They are smaller with 2x the antioxidants due to the increased skin:pulp ratio. Do they also have 2x the pesticides, likewise due to the increased surface area? At Costco they are nearly the same price as the larger frozen organic blueberries.
All told, we either grow or buy locally-sourced 90% of our fruit and vegetables.
Consumer Reports is a leftist publication .
Our food is very safe.
Don’t fall for the anti science fear mongering.
A trace amount of something is normally meaningless .
With the better detection methods , any chemical can be detected in anything .
How do you explain the exploding number of cases of neuro degenerative diseases in the US (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s..etc). Just asking. By a strange coincidence our food also happens to be laden with neuro toxins designed to attack/ destroy the nervous system of pests.
Who decides??? Those that want you dead…
“ By a strange coincidence our food also happens to be laden with neuro toxins designed to attack/ destroy the nervous system of pests.”
Much less than 30 years ago. We are just WAY better at testing..
I used to farm and used really nasty organophosphate to kill corn root worms .
Now the GMO corn has BT built in to do that.
BT is a natural substance that organic farmers are allowed to use.
Yes I do see more diseases such as diabetes , lactose and gluten intolerance .
What’s causing it?
I don’t know, but our food is safer than in the past
In the studied green beans, researchers shockingly found ‘residues of a pesticide that hasn’t been allowed to be used on the vegetable in the US for over a decade.’
And there’s your problem....eat US grown produce. And wash it.
Not sure if this will reassure people or not, but a couple years ago I was in Honduras. We drove past a cantaloupe plantation entrance, where they would bring in busloads of workers. I remember seeing a big graphic on the side of the wall of the building at the entrance. It was a figure of a man taking a whiz on the ground with the universal red “prohibited” circle/slash over it.
Much of what we are seeing with diseases are diseases caused by abundance and cheap food.
People do not have to exercise, so they do not. Food is cheap, so they eat lots of what tastes good.
In consequence, we have more obese people than ever in our history, and people are obese starting younger and younger.
Lots of diseases are related to obesity and lack of exercise.
What is the solution to problems caused by abundance and cheap food?
As a society, there is no easy solution.
As an individual, eat in moderation, exercise, and avoid addictive foods.
Excellent points you make.
Eat less calories and more green things, exercise of any kind is important .
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