Friday, January 1, 2010

"To buy or Not to buy Organic?" PART 1

Hello Readers! Let's begin this year with information about your FOOD CHOICES. I would like to work with each and every one of you on your diet choices and teach you how those choices affect your lifelong health and the health of your loved ones.

This year I would like to promote healthy food choices infused with a diet rich in organic produce, healthy grains and chemical free products and services. This week let's learn about the term "Organic".

Organic foods are those produced without using synthetic pesticides, petroleum or sewage-sludge based fertilizers, bioengineering or ionizing radiation.

Organic meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products must come from animals fed organic feed and no antibiotics or growth hormones.

100% Organic 100 percent organically produced ingredients
Organic 95% of the ingredients are organically produced
Made with Organic Ingredients 70% of the ingredients are organically produced

One of the questions I've recently struggled with is which foods I should buy organic vs nonorganic. Fruits are among the most nutritious foods on the planet. They contain almost no fats and are loaded with fiber, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants

FRUITS YOU SHOULD BUY ORGANIC
  • Apples
  • Strawberries
  • Cherries
  • Apricots
  • Cantaloupe
  • Grapes
  • Peaches
  • Pears
  • Red Raspberries
FRUITS YOU CAN BUY NON-ORGANIC
  • Bananas
  • Blueberries
  • Grapefruit
  • Kiwi
  • Tangerines
  • Watermelon
  • Blackberries
  • Canned Peaches
Please keep these in mind next time you're in your grocery store and watch what you put into your shopping cart!