Organic study
SO, people promoting organic foods have NEVER claimed that the nutritional value of the food is any better then non organic. I mean I have not heard or read this.
Fruit and vegetables, regardless of how we try to interfer with their greatness still have similar or the same vitamins and minerals. Ok…..
Food that must travel a long distance will always have their enzymes inhibited so that they remain fresher and this is not ideal. Our bodies are in need of these enzymes for good digestion and good health. But again, one does what they can. Eating as much raw foods as possible, and maybe local is an option, is ideal. But one thing, it can become a little overwhelming to worry about food all the time. Trust me, I know! Much better to relax and impliment newness slowly. And also with the knowledge that there are no certainties in life. I think for me, less stress is just a better way to live. Living perfectly with the hopes that the rewards will be ideal only creates internal stress. SO Relax……..hehe. No kidding! Yah….. love those breakthroughs.
So what a useless article in my opionion put out by the British and found in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. I am sure it’s not. 
I can not wait to read the actual artical to see who funded the study. Laughable! Well I am pre-judging it only to be confrontational. lol But it’s good to think!! and not just believe. I have read studies that prove their point but are not at all logical. I look forward to actually reading it. I refuse to pay for it though. :P (ok… it was funded by the UK Food Standards Agency.)
The best food is food that is grown with the least chemicals (no chemicals would be ideal, ya know it that ideal world we all dream of…lol) and the food that also has the least chemicals added to it. No chemicals is even better!!! Chemicals may not have a short term effect on the body as most healthy bodies can deal pretty well at clearing these substances from the body. Still it is best to avoid chemicals as we are around them where ever we go. Why not avoid if possible? The less stress (chemical, excess physical and emotional) we put on our bodies the better off our health will be.
I think we are doing very well if we are eating as much whole foods as we can and enjoying them in all their loveliness. Throughly washed non organic or washed organic produce is better then any food that is altered. Any attempt to eat whole instead of processed foods is a great way to feel lighter, happier and healthier.
Convenience food or whole food preparation? I respect this dilemma, but health has to be somewhere on our top 5 things to do, no? And then there is always balance with everything….
I tried my first persimmon today!!! Yum. Thank you to some U.S. farmer or likely some large production company. LOVED the fleshy texture and it’t slight sweetness…YUM. It went so well with my B.C. blueberries. This is our world.
Ahhhhhh, someday I will have a little garden of yummies…..
Just to be clear… this is their actual objective.
“We sought to quantitatively assess the differences in reported nutrient content between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs.”
This is not the big study that the media is making it out to be.
I read that same article in our paper today and I was wondering how that study was conducted. Did they just look at the nutritional value of of the food or did they also take the possibly harmfull effects of the pesticides into consideration. I don’t know, Im not a socalled expert but in my own humble mind it seems logical that it is healthier to eat lettuce that hasn’t been sprayed with pesticides than lettuce that has. But hey, who am I huh. lol.
Did you know (and I don’t mean to stress you out lol) that most tomatoes (or all) are being sprayed with something that makes them red? So when the tomato is picked it’s still not ripe and thus green. To make it go red they spray it with a certain chemical that promotes the process that will turn the tomato red. The actual tomato genetics though are still not ripe. When I heard that I really looked forward to the tomatoes out of our own backyard, sunripened and naturally red. I guess that’s the price you pay for having the ‘luxury’ of having tomatoes and other produce out of season.
Did you also read this other article - it was in our paper last week - that the saltcontent in products sold in Canada is so much higher than the identical product sold in the US. For instance Kelloggs All Bran supposedly has 600mg salt in a serving in canada and that same All Bran has onlyy 150mg when sold in the US. How ridiculous is that!
Sometimes I wonder if I’d be happier being just oblivious to all of this, but once on this road to a healthier body and therefore having more interest in the ‘buildingblocks’ of what I consume, it becomes clear to me that you need to be extremely careful if you want to just ‘eat healthy’. Sad isn’t it.
Sad but true… we just can’t leave things alone! Nature is perfect, but we just need to tweek it a litte bit right?
the beast thing to buy is loval foods at your farmers market. Those things are mostly organic and picked ripe which means the fruit or vegetable had time ro ripen and is much heathier.
I agree with Kerstina, and I also like how you brought out not to stress over it, as long as we are striving to eat as clean as we can.
Good points Karin. A salty Canada makes NO sense I tell you!
And Raytchalle, tweaking is certainly what we do… We would not know what to do if we did not think progression progression…. yet how long it will take compassion to progress a fraction of what science has.
LOCAL and CLEAN…… The more the better. Hehe… the only time where more of these things actually creates more balance in the body, I have found.
…assuming that no obsession with eating a certain way, even clean, creates a cloud around one’s head. Gotta hate Obsession, unless it’s the A&E series.
That’s just interesting.