Whole Foods are foods that are in an unrefined edible state. This is what we ate for thousands of years. It has only been a 100 years or so since we started consuming highly refined foods. Refined doesn’t mean they’re just missing a few ingredients; refined means they’re missing most minerals, trace minerals, vitamins, oils, fiber and untold numbers of phytochemicals that support full immune function. Without all of the above, complete metabolism doesn’t occur so the body compensates by depleting these precious ingredients from our bones, tissues and nerves. Whole foods support, maintain, build and repair our body while refined foods rob us.
Why Eat Local/Seasonal/Organic Foods? For one, they taste better but more importantly is their greater nutritional energy and value. Chemically grown foods take their toll on our kidneys and liver (the organs that filter chemicals) as well as the environment. We’re barely 4 generations into ingesting chemicals and the results are devastating. If you cannot afford to buy all organic then first purchase organic fatty foods i.e. meat, dairy, oils, nuts because toxins concentrate in fatty acids in tissues.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) also has a list called The Dirty Dozen – fruits and vegetables that should be organic because of heavy pesticide use. Get your pen out: peaches, apples, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, pears, imported grapes, bell peppers, celery, spinach, lettuce and potatoes.
EWG is a great organization worth supporting. www.ewg.org
Studies including one from the National Institute of Health have demonstrated that children who ate only organic produce had statistically significant lower levels of pesticides in the bodies as those who ate conventionally grown fruits and vegetables.
What better gift can you give your children than the gift of health?
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