Why Go Organic?

So what is all this hype about a completely organic lifestyle? Does it REALLY make that much of a difference?

YES!!!

 

For anyone concerned about their health and the health of their loved ones, adopting an organic lifestyle is a huge step in the direction of excellent health and wellness. An organic lifestyle means eating organic foods, using organic cleaning methods and toiletries, and wearing organic clothing.

You can adopt all of these practices or just a few, but any movement toward an organic lifestyle will make a difference, improving health and life satisfaction.

Many people would like to buy organic food and adopt a more organic lifestyle. Yet, instead of prioritizing the use of certified organic food, the majority of people stick with their habitual processed or conventional foods. These non organic foods are nutrition poor, contain toxic residues, taste inferior and are potentially harmful to the environment, you and your family.

 

So why go organic? The answer is clear – you can't afford not to!

Your Introduction to Organic Cooking

Here are just a few of the reasons to go organic:

• Your produce will not contain the chemical cocktail that conventionally grown produce does.
  

• Fresh organic produce contains on average 50% more vitamins, minerals, enzymes and other micro-nutrients than intensively farmed produce.
  

• Organic foods are not genetically modified (GM) and therefore better for you.
  

• Eating organic meat means avoiding eating animal meat from animals that are fed a dangerous cocktail of antibiotics, growth promoting drugs, anti-parasite drugs and many other medicines on a daily basis, whether they have an illness or not.
  

• Organic produce tastes so much better!
  

• Wearing organic clothing means you are NOT wearing chemicals on your body.
  

• Organic cleaning products can work as effectively as conventional cleaners, without the harmful chemicals.

Once you make the commitment to go organic why not also make the commitment to buy locally? Most produce in the U.S. is picked 4 to 7 days before being placed on supermarket shelves, and is shipped for an average of 1500 miles before being sold. And this is when taking into account only U.S. grown products! What a wasteful food system! This process weakens our communities, destroys our environment, and concentrates wealth and power into a few hands only.

We can counteract these harmful effects and help keep our local farmers in business by buying locally grown food whenever possible. You'll be strengthening your community by investing your food dollars close to home.

You'll also get exceptional taste and freshness since local food is fresher and tastes better than food shipped long distances from other states or countries. Try to make it a goal to eat organic foods and only ones that have traveled no more then a few miles or perhaps even a few yards to your dinner table.

Adapted from Article Source: Natural Family Living

Used with permission.

   

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