Posted on 09/03/2009 6:13:03 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
When I first started writing my upcoming book Organic Manifesto a year ago, I fully expected to have lots of information about how organic foods are healthier for you because they are more nutritious. The more research I did, the more I realized that nutrition is the least of our worries. Aside from the fact that the nutritional content of just about ALL of our food has declined over the past 50 years, we are, as a rule, overfed. And good nutrition is available from many sources in our diet.
So I wasn’t surprised in the least when a report was released last week by a British research team saying that a review of studies showed that organic foods aren’t more nutritious than chemical foods. As it turns out, there are some significant flaws in the way that analysis was done, as reported by Rodale.com and others. But beyond that is a larger point: The quest for more nutrition should be the last reason to eat organic foods.
What’s the first reason? The REAL reason we should eat organic foods? The real reason to eat organic food is that the thousands of chemicals used to grow chemical foods are causing horrific health and environmental problems. In my book (due out in March 2010) I discuss multiple well-documented studies from reliable sources showing that chemical pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and the GMO’s used in chemically based food production, are implicated in, if not causing, the following health problems: diabetes, obesity, cancer, autism, Parkinson’s disease, male sterility, genital deformities, female infertility, miscarriage, infant deformities, ADHD, hormonally caused gender confusion, asthma, allergies, accelerated aging, and smaller penises in boys, amphibians, and other wildlife.
I have also discovered (and reveal in my book) that the chemicals used to grow so-called “conventional food” are responsible for the majority of our climate-change problems, the majority of our water-pollution problems, the majority of our plant and insect disease problems, and the majority of our economic woes.
Sounds crazy, but it’s true. You’ll have to wait until the book comes out to find out the details. But in the meantime, for your sake, for your kid’s sake, and for the planet’s sake, keep on eating organic!
I've eaten quite a bit of soy beans over the years just by cooking them like any other beans.
AFAIK, without any negative health effects.
How can this be if they're poison?
The thing most important to remember is not so much the quantity of estrogen’s in the body (male or female) since we all need them both. The issue is the ratio of estrogen’s to testosterone. When there is an imbalance favoring estrogen in the body, female characteristics will tend to be more dominant. I would caution men especially to steer clear of anything containing soy as it can be just as big a sex drive killer as Finasteride or other hair growing chemicals. Further, and this is just my opinion, I believe that can lead to serious prostrate problems and “shrinkage” in the future. In other words - use it or lose it.
You are eating soy beans right off the vine?
The Chinese have been eating massive amounts of soy for thousands of years.
There seem to be a remarkably large number of Chinese around if soy consumption interferes with reproduction.
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Exactly right.
Since the liver is connected to both the skin and digestive system only by the bloodstream, I'm curious why you think it's more effective at filtering out ingested stuff as opposed to stuff absorbed thru the skin.
Soy beans purchased just like pinto beans or other beans.
Not much recently, as I prefer other bean types, but I used to eat a fair amount.
I only have one reason to ever eat organic food, and that is to support the CEO of Whole Foods Markets who ripped Obamacare in the Wall Street Journal
This is a common misconception. Asians actually eat less processed soy than we Westerners. Asians have always eaten copious amounts of fermented soy which negates and estrogen like effects.
and = any
Sorry, I should have added that it is more difficult. The skin is the largest organ. Putting sunscreen on all areas of your skin is very dangerous, perhaps more dangerous than drinking a glass of soy milk, because of the ratio of skin to the rest of the body. This is why infants are not supposed to be exposed to sunblock before age 1. An infants skin to body mass ratio is much higher than a child’s.
I didn’t suggest breathing it, I suggested ingesting it.
I didn’t suggest breathing it, I suggested ingesting it.
Thank you for your arument against governemt food controls.
I would also point out that if you ingested a bushel of apples, or anything else, in one sitting it would kill you. Rather a silly argument.
I have been raise food organically for some time, and have yet to have to put on a suit and a breather to tend my plants. Healthy plants tend to fight off a lot of the insects on thier own.
Not that I buy into any of this crunchy granola eating tree hugging hippie B.S.; but the hepatic portal vein ensures that any toxins taken up by the digestive system run past the liver first.
But yes, topically applied drugs absorbed through the epidermis also get into systemic circulation and are filtered out by the liver.
The writer of this article is pure 100% organically grown crackpot.
“...day laborer poopy pants veggies.”
LOL! I am swimming in tomatoes these days. Still a lot to go, but still, much more than I was expecting with our cool summer.
I just dug potatoes today. Poop-free! :)
“I don’t have the acreage for a cow.”
Eh. If you did, she’d just be bitchin’ about your cow causing Globull Warming and whine about how many gallons of water they need each day, how you’ll have to clear-cut your land to feed them, etc.
You can’t win with these brainwashed dirt-huggers. Nothing is good enough for them where WE are concerned. However, THEY are blameless...
I SO want a small milk cow. Husband is starting to tease me about it, so I think he’s softening to the idea. :)
“I only have one reason to ever eat organic food, and that is to support the CEO of Whole Foods Markets who ripped Obamacare in the Wall Street Journal.”
A perfect reason, IMHO. :)
My dad raises registered angus and is quality certified and the meat is basically organic. You would not believe the stuff they pump up the cows with for meat or milk production. I am not one of those hippy, dippy people, but I do subscribe to the belief that you are what you eat.
Just tell him three things -
Fresh cream with your coffee
REAL butter
And homemade ice CREAM
Gets to me every time I think about my childhood.
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