Why Organic Foods?

Why choose organic food? If you compare prices at the store, you'll probably notice that organic foods generally cost more than non-organic. With a slow economy, why would you even consider changing your diet and increasing your budget?

Organic foods are grown free of pesticides and chemical sprays. When chemical and pesticide sprays are present in non-organic foods, you will wind up eating them with your dinner. Would ever consider topping your green salad with a spray of chemicals? Of course not!

When you eat non-organic foods, your body must deal with these toxins. Often, our bodies aren't equipped to flush these foreign substances. As a result, they are stored or circulate our immune system. After awhile, our body begins to feel sick, breaks out in hives, has allergic reactions to foods, etc. One of the most common reactions is a chemical overload. Your body stores these chemicals until it can't stand it anymore. Then, one day your body tries to flush the toxins and you'll just feel nasty.

What Can You Do?

Organic foods not only are toxin-free, but are generally more nutritious. The natural coloring of the food isn't faked; the sun provides real coloring and nutrients. All fruits and vegetables contain some amount of phyto nutrients. The more proper sunlight the plants have prior to picking the more nutrients present. To maintain most of the phyto nutrients in the food after harvest, it must be consumed or stabilized with 24 to 48 hours.

If you buy your fruits and vegetables at the store, this proves impractical. So, what can you do? Of course you could grow your own food, but most people just don't have the time. The most practical thing to do is find a local source.

Depending on where you live, organic foods just may not be available. If this is the case, don't give up. Just buy non-organic foods from local growers like at a city's farmers' market. Although these foods aren't organic, they are still way more nutritious than grocery store food. Local farmers don't need to preserver their foods after harvest with chemicals; they sell them promptly. Also, local farmers don't tend to use as many or as harmful chemicals during the growing season.