Food and Health, Part 5
Did you know that studies showed, in
thirty-six market basket samples, potato chips had 207 residues of
toxic pesticides and industrial chemicals? But organic chips
didn't. Now I know why organic costs more--and why it's worth it!
Unfortunately, many of us
can't afford organic foods or we live in areas where they are not
available. Diet for a Poisoned Planet looks at non-organic
commercial foods and lists them in three categories. Green light
foods are the safest. Eat plenty of them. Yellow light
foods have higher levels of pesticides, but should still be eaten if
organics are not available. Red light listed foods should be
replaced by organics. Still, the worst vegetable foods are better
for us than the worst animal foods. Read more....
This post is part of our Food and Health lunchtime series.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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