We went to Avalon Organics (http://www.avalonorchards.net/index.html) this past weekend and
picked SO many apples! It was important that we went to an organic orchard as we did not
want to walk through fields of pesticides, nor did we want to bring any home with us. All that Avalon did
was spray Kaolin Clay once early in the season on their crops and those nasty little pests
kept away! Apples are a low glycemic food, rich in fiber, eliminate bad estrogens, and are rich in
nutrients.
Organic food has fewer hormone-disrupting and cancer-causing pesticides and higher levels of
cancer-fighting nutrients. As the Harvard School of Public Health recently released their data
stating that by choosing 5 servings of organic fruits and vegetables per day, most people can
lower their volume of pesticides they consume daily by 92%.
Another study out of Harvard shows that even tiny, allowable amounts of a common pesticide
class can have dramatic effects on brain chemistry. Organophosphate insecticides (OP’s) are
among the most widely used pesticides in the U.S.; have long been known to be
particularly toxic for children. This is the first study to examine their effects across a
representative population with average levels of exposure. Finding : Kids with above-average
pesticide exposures are 2x as likely to have ADHD.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2010/05/17/peds.2009-3058.abstract
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