Organic Products And Health
Understanding the relationship between organic products and health may seem meaningless for many people who have been eating conventionally produced foods for years. This is because it may appear that their conventionally produced foods are not harming them so why eat organic products..
But the truth is that even if you are one of the fortunate people who have not been affected by the chemicals found in non organic products (or have not been affected to you knowledge), the reality remains that you still could be getting a lot more from your foods. Let's look at the impact organic products can have on health.
Some of the most common health problems facing people today are heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity just to name a few of the more popular aliments. Each of these is caused by different and a wide range of various variables.
Science has by no means found a one factor cause for each illness, but what they know for sure is that the things you put into your body can either do you good, or harm you. Almost every physician will prescribe for his patient a good, healthy diet irrespective of what ailment the patient suffers from, even broken bones.
That is because the body can only work optimally in helping to heal itself and helping to protect itself when it receives the nutrients it needs. It is here that organic products come highly recommended. Organic products can impact health in a number of ways.
Firstly, they reduce the risk of food poisoning. Because of the chemical fertilizers and other chemicals such as pesticides and herbicides that are used in conventional farming, residues remain on conventional foods and are consumed by us.
These residues only stay in out bodies and over time, accumulate in our fatty tissues and gut lining. And with time the level of toxins in our bodies can get immeasurably high, and most of he time we don't know what is causing our symptoms of sickness since there are 70,000 chemicals used in conventional farming and only 250 can be tested for in humans.
With such high toxin levels the average person can suffer from any number on symptoms and ailments, the cause of which can be difficult to detect. is grown and stored without the use of artificial pesticides and fertilisers and this elimintates the risk of being poisoned by foods.
Organic products have not been associated with any case of food poisoning in any year since the Center for Disease Control & Prevention records began. Secondly, unlike processed non-organic products, organic products contain no artificial additives, preservatives, colourings or flavourings, and no hydrogenated fats, which are directly related to increased rates of heart disease.
Thirdly, several thousand artificial additives are allowed in non-organic products, which are used to preserve foods beyond their expiry date and to increase the appearance of foods. These additives are dangerous simply because they do nothing to the nutrient content of food, but in fact, they only add carcinogens, i.e, cancer causing agents, to food.
Oragnic products only contain a small number of innocuous natural additives. The clearest studies on brest cancer have shown that one of the leading agents of breast cancer is pesticide residue.
Fourthly, organic products have been proven to contain more nutrients and minerals than non-organic products, nurtients and minerals that are invaluble to the human body and that can reduce colesterol, high blood pressure and assist in alleivating many heart conditions.