You Are Toxic. Find Out Why.

You are toxic! In fact, most people that you know are toxic.In addition to the air we breathe day in and day out, we also are exposed to toxins on our food and in the water we drink. The Environmental Working Group releases its Dirty Dozen each year, a list of the most toxic (due to pesticides) fruits and vegetables. The top five in 2014 were apples, strawberries, grapes, celery and peaches. Ouch! In other words, when this group tested both domestic and imported apples, they found the most pesticides on them compared to what they found on other foods.The EPA has tested and approved the use of more than 1,000 synthetic pesticides. All of which are poisonous if exposed to excess.Organically grown foods are raised without any of those synthetic pesticides. As a result, they contain significantly less pesticides than conventional foods. One of the comments I hear when I talk about the benefits of organic food is ‘organic food is so expensive.’ True, but have you ever heard the phrase ‘you get what you pay for?’ You can spend more money to buy better quality food or you can pay lower prices for foods that were bathed in pesticides.People absorb toxins in one of three ways: inhaling, consuming, and absorbing through our skin. Eating foods containing the residues of pesticides and other toxins is the most common cause of increased toxicity. Peeling and washing your fresh produce is a good practice, but it will not completely rid your fruits and vegetables of pesticides. Toxins, especially pesticides, will seep into the flesh of a fruit or vegetable. Scrubbing the outside of a contaminated apple will not prevent toxins from entering your body either.A study from the Harvard School of Public Health demonstrated that eating organic produce can significantly reduce bodily toxicity (http://www.ewg.org/videos/exposure-pesticides-produce-dr-alex-lu-harvard). The study provided five consecutive days' worth of organic food to children who typically ate a non-organic, conventional diet. After just five days, almost all pesticides had disappeared from the subjects' urine samples.Why not give organic fruits and vegetables a try this week?