I recently heard on talk radio a discussion from some anti-organic people. They made some ridiculous assumptions about organic fruits and vegetables that amazed me.

They said, "Organic fruit is not as nutritious as regular fruit, because it is picked too early so that it can be shipped to market and ripen on the way."

That would make sense if it were true, but it simply isn't true in most instances. Usually it is your regular grocery store fruit that is picked too early and shipped green. Organic fruit is more commonly produced locally and picked fresh.

But either way that assumption simply doesn't work, because when fruit is actually tested for nutritional content, organic is always superior.

They also claimed that chemical sprays are our friends and help to increase yields. They even assumed that these chemicals have no negative side effects on our food.

That is just pure ignorance of the facts.

All health agencies tell you to at least wash your fruits and vegetables before eating them because of the chemical sprays. Those with some common sense will also tell you that some of those chemicals are absorbed through the skin. No one will tell you seriously that those chemicals are without side effects when taken into the human body.

As for the increasing yields, that also turns out to be false. It depends entirely on the methods used.

There are chemical as well as natural methods to use to increase crop yield. In the long run the natural methods are always superior.

In fact, fields that are sprayed with chemicals eventually become unusable. They die.

As time goes on we are learning that these chemicals that have been used on our crops are building up.

They not only build up in the soil, they build up in our bodies and cause all kinds of debilitating disease.

Now we don't only get them from the foods we eat, but also from the water we drink, because they leach down through the soil and into the water table. Most of our water systems are not able to filter them out.

But water is a subject for another time.

Is organic produce worth the extra cost?

Absolutely!

Even if it cost twice as much as regular fruit (sometimes it does) it is still less expensive than most packaged goods in the grocery store. Not to mention the thousands of dollars you can spend on fighting diseases like cancer. (Trust me, I have personal experience with that one.)

Replace packaged goods from the grocery store with organic produce in your diet and you will be much better off health wise, and you may even come out ahead financially. If not in the short run, for sure in the long run.

Just eat a high quality natural foods diet, exercise, drink plenty of good clean water, make sure you get fiber (whole raw foods), get plenty of sleep, breathe deeply and have a gratitude attitude.

Your body will take care of you, if you take care of it.

Coach G.

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