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Article Title: What's Hiding In Your Food!
Author: Willie Jones
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So, your pantry is stocked with its packages, cans, oils and
spices. Your fridge is full of meat, fruit and vegetables. You
may be feeling comfortable with the fact that you've supplied
your family with a good supply of sustenance. Not so fast! Here
are some things we've been lead to believe are better than
Mother Nature's recipes.
When you eat traditionally grown fruits and vegetables and
spices, you may also be consuming insecticides, pesticides and
fumigants. On that warm summer day when you are enjoying that
sweet peach or juicy apple, your body has to deal with the fact
that an onslaught of foreign toxic material has entered its
system. In addition to extracting usable nutrients, it has to
remove the toxic substances. If you repeatedly, day after day,
consume these chemicals, your liver and kidneys can become
overwhelmed. If you ate organically all your life, your body
should be able to handle this, but this is not the case for the
majority of Americans. Most Americans consume pesticides,
herbicides and fumigants daily. In fact, it is estimated that we
consume 13 to 20 different pesticides, insecticides or fumigants
on any given day. Pregnant women and children are especially at
risk.
Here are some examples of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides
and their side effects;
- Iprodione is a carcinogen in both humans and animals.
- Azinphos can interfere with hormones.
- Phosmet is also a carcinogen, can damage the reproductive
system and also interferes with hormones.
- Benomyl and carbaryl are known carcinogens, can cause birth
defects, can damage the nervous system and the brain, can cause
vomiting and diarrhea.
- Fungicides such as captan, azoxystrobin and mancozeb can
irritate the eyes, skin and respirtory tract.
- Herbicides such as mecoprop and 2,4 ?D Barrage can increase
bizarre or aggressive behavior, irritate mucous membranes and
skin, can cause headaches, confusion, vomiting and diarrhea.
- Paraquat can cause a burning sensation in the mouth, throat
and chest, can make one feel giddy or lethargic, feverish and
headachy and can cause dry cracked hands.
- Insecticides such as orthene, dursban and thiodan can cause
headaches, excessive tearing and salivation, muscle twitching,
nausea, diarrhea, possible seizures.
- Hexchlorocyclohexan
dizziness, headaches, seizures and can affect hormones.
There are so many chemicals used in our agriculture that I
could write pages of their harmful effects from continual
exposure but the above gives you the idea.
There are some ugly truths about the meat we consume as well.
There are feed farms where it is necessary to feed cattle, pigs
and chicken with antibiotics. Unlike animals that are allowed to
graze naturally, feed farms have animals confined in a building
for all their lives. This makes them prone to disease and so
antibiotics are used liberally. Some microbes in the animal
become resistant to the antibiotics. Now we have the problem
where people who choose to fight infection with antibiotics, may
find themselves resistant. We also have the problem of hormones
fed to cattle to fatten them up. What do you think happens to
you when you ingest these hormones? If it fattens the cows
wouldn't it stand to reason it would also fatten you up? Europe
does not allow the hormone rBGH to be used, but the in the US,
approximately 90% of livestock farms use hormones.
There is also the debate about early puberty in young girls.
According to Samuel Epstein, MD, professor of occupational and
environmental medicine at the university of Illinois Medical
Center and founder of Cancer Prevention Coalition, worries that
because children normally have low sex hormones, even a small
increase could have detrimental effects.
Because we are so over exposed to toxins from the air we
breath, the water we drink and the food we eat, it stands to
reason that going organic is a step in the right direction. You
may be surprised at how you will feel by reducing toxicity in
your body.
We all want ourselves and our families to be healthy, don't we?
It is our responsibility to get educated to make the right
decisions, and whenever possible eat organic foods.
(Source: Cornell University Pesticide Management Education
Program & ATSDR- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry/US Dept of Health and Human Services, for informational
purposes only)
About The Author: Willie is a researcher and freelance writer
whose own health problems prompted her to gain information on
health and wellness and share that knowledge with others. She is
co-owner of http://www.cleanbod
detox through ionic foot baths.
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