Just another reason to grow organic
I was horrified when I read a news item yesterday that links the use of chemicals in our environment to obesity. It seems that scientists have found a link between certain chemicals and obesity. If so, then we’re all doomed. I shouldn’t be surprised, though. I’ve felt for quite some time that chemicals, pesticides and such in our environment was bad news, and cause many of the diseases and health problems that we all face these days. I myself have lingering health problems as a result of a chemical exposure in my home years ago–a supposedly “natural” product that was anything but natural.
This news story has links to the Washington Tribune and the Columbia Tribune, where the story was first reported. And it’s not just the chemicals in food that are problematic; chemicals in other things, such as plastics, are also blamed for numerous maladies.
I know how hard it is to avoid plastics, but we can avoid chemicals in our foods. Grow organic, use organic seeds if at all possible (I’ll be talking about that in a future blog post), buy and eat organic produce, and suggest to your favorite restaurants that they also buy and use organic foods. Every little bit helps!
dig it!
bobbi c.
Copyright ©2007 by Bobbi A. Chukran
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March 14th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Organic is a good idea - and I know what you mean by “natural” not always being “good”. For crying out loud opium is “natural”…see where this is going? Yikes.
March 14th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Hi teri. Right! The stuff I was exposed to was a “natural” flea spray based on pyrethrins. Turns out, there are two forms of pyrethrins…a natural form, and a synthetic form. The synthetic form is dangerous, and even the other form can be, too, if you’re over exposed to it.
Needless to say, we don’t use any of those products in our house now.
bobbi c.
March 16th, 2007 at 3:36 am
[...] Pollutants make you Fat? March 16th, 2007 by Neel Bobbi c of Earthly Garden alerted me to a fantastic lead on some ground-breaking news related to obesity. It seems plastics can make you fat. The environment is changing rapidly and it’s only natural that pollutants around us. They make us lethargic, tired, asthmatic and now fat. [...]