Is it still healthier to eat vegetables seeing as though most have trace amounts of insecticide?!
I mean, I'm sure that one tomato doesn't hurt you!. But wouldn't it start adding up in your body!?
What about the meat!? It has steroids in it!? How safe is that!?
There have been so much of an increase in cancers lately, how can you be safe!?
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What about the meat!? It has steroids in it!? How safe is that!?
There have been so much of an increase in cancers lately, how can you be safe!?
Thanks!Www@FoodAQ@Com
Answers:
The short answer is, you can't be safe!. Life is risk!. As some of the respondents note, if you don't eat, you can't live!.
You can wash fruits and vegetables and salad fixings!. Tap water is cheap and plentiful, and most of the pesticides and herbicides are applied as water soluble compounds, so they can be sprayed on!. So, wash them off!.
Many of the early pesticides have been taken off the market!. Chlordane made quite a number of people sterile, for example, but it was in the runoff water from fields, not so much in the food!.
Yes, there are cumulative poisons in pesticides which can damage your liver over time!. Drinking excessively does the work faster!. There are toxins in the potato, the peanut, and many mushrooms that are regarded as edible!. Afla-toxins in peanuts are regarded by some scientists as making a peanut butter sandwich more dangerous than smoking four packs of cigarettes, with the most natural and least cooked peanuts having the worst of it!. Similar toxins are found on potato skins!.
Steroids in meat aren't a big deal!. Your body breaks down the proteins in the food you eat before building the proteins that are you!. The amount of steroids in meat are unlikely to generate any steroidal effects!. The nutrients in meat more than make up for any additives!.
Eat the healthiest food you can!. Take good vitamins!. As you get older, supplement for missing supplies of things the body stops producing!. After age 25, di hydro epi androsterone (DHEA) production in the body drops off dramatically!. After age 35, the pineal gland produces much less melatonin!. Both are key in many body functions!. So, replace them with supplements!.
As for cumulative poisons and long term organ damage, stay as healthy as possible by eating nutritious foods with plenty of fiber, taking vitamins, and getting exercise!. The human body has ways of repairing itself!. And it has many ways to compensate for problems in one organ, including spare organs!.
There are many foods you can eat which contain kidney toxins!. You have two kidneys for that reason, so if one begins to fail the other can do its work until it gets healthy again!. There are many liver toxins, but your body has lots of liver, for that reason!.
Obviously, if you have severe reactions to a certain food, vomiting, other food poisoning symptoms like convulsions, stop eating that food!. You may be allergic to it!. You may have gotten a very bad food mixed in with the good!. Or bacteria on the food may have hurt you!. When you have severe symptoms lasting more than a day, seek medical attention, and with very severe symptoms, seek medical help right away!. But for most minor food related issues, don't sweat it!.
If you were to take all the bacteria out of your food and environment, you would not build up resistance to any bacteria!. Same for viruses!. Same for mild poisons!. You can build up tolerance to poisons, resistance to viruses, and actual anti-bodies to many germs!. But these things don't happen in a perfectly sterile environment!.
So, eat good food!. If you like, grow your own food!. I prefer marigolds to pesticides for keeping the bugs away!. I prefer lady bugs for eating aphids and such!. But if you use pesticides, wash the harvest thoroughly before eating it!.
Keep in mind that we chlorinate water, put pesticides on foods, and put herbicides on foods, because there are things worse than bleach-tasting water and a few long term cumulative liver poisons!. There are a huge number of water borne illnesses, many things which bugs and pest-plants do which don't feed people, and even quite a few insect borne illnesses!.
Ten thousand years ago, there were no chlorinated water supplies, no pesticides, and no herbicides!. People lived about 25 to 35 years!. Getting grey hair was regarded as a wonder!. As a result, people probably listened to the superstitions of elderly people more than they should!.
Today we have many things in our water and food to worry about, and ways to treat them to make them less impure!. I like reverse osmosis for drinking water, because it gets out the chlorine taste and the fluoride!. I like washing fruits and vegetables very thoroughly, probably longer than most!.
But, even with all this gunk in our food and water, we live a lot longer!. The average American older than 5 years of age (lots of things affect infant mortality, which is much harder to improve because they have so little resistance to so many things) can expect to live to be 85!. That's a huge improvement!.
One other thing to consider is fasting for a day or two!. Drink water or juice, and let your body get rid of whatever you ate, whatever you drank!. It can also add a lot of clarity to your mind, since a hungry body is eager for action!. Once every three months can be a good fasting regimen - not for nursing mothers, pregnant women, etc!., but otherwise, eating every day isn't necessarily "normal!."Www@FoodAQ@Com
You can wash fruits and vegetables and salad fixings!. Tap water is cheap and plentiful, and most of the pesticides and herbicides are applied as water soluble compounds, so they can be sprayed on!. So, wash them off!.
Many of the early pesticides have been taken off the market!. Chlordane made quite a number of people sterile, for example, but it was in the runoff water from fields, not so much in the food!.
Yes, there are cumulative poisons in pesticides which can damage your liver over time!. Drinking excessively does the work faster!. There are toxins in the potato, the peanut, and many mushrooms that are regarded as edible!. Afla-toxins in peanuts are regarded by some scientists as making a peanut butter sandwich more dangerous than smoking four packs of cigarettes, with the most natural and least cooked peanuts having the worst of it!. Similar toxins are found on potato skins!.
Steroids in meat aren't a big deal!. Your body breaks down the proteins in the food you eat before building the proteins that are you!. The amount of steroids in meat are unlikely to generate any steroidal effects!. The nutrients in meat more than make up for any additives!.
Eat the healthiest food you can!. Take good vitamins!. As you get older, supplement for missing supplies of things the body stops producing!. After age 25, di hydro epi androsterone (DHEA) production in the body drops off dramatically!. After age 35, the pineal gland produces much less melatonin!. Both are key in many body functions!. So, replace them with supplements!.
As for cumulative poisons and long term organ damage, stay as healthy as possible by eating nutritious foods with plenty of fiber, taking vitamins, and getting exercise!. The human body has ways of repairing itself!. And it has many ways to compensate for problems in one organ, including spare organs!.
There are many foods you can eat which contain kidney toxins!. You have two kidneys for that reason, so if one begins to fail the other can do its work until it gets healthy again!. There are many liver toxins, but your body has lots of liver, for that reason!.
Obviously, if you have severe reactions to a certain food, vomiting, other food poisoning symptoms like convulsions, stop eating that food!. You may be allergic to it!. You may have gotten a very bad food mixed in with the good!. Or bacteria on the food may have hurt you!. When you have severe symptoms lasting more than a day, seek medical attention, and with very severe symptoms, seek medical help right away!. But for most minor food related issues, don't sweat it!.
If you were to take all the bacteria out of your food and environment, you would not build up resistance to any bacteria!. Same for viruses!. Same for mild poisons!. You can build up tolerance to poisons, resistance to viruses, and actual anti-bodies to many germs!. But these things don't happen in a perfectly sterile environment!.
So, eat good food!. If you like, grow your own food!. I prefer marigolds to pesticides for keeping the bugs away!. I prefer lady bugs for eating aphids and such!. But if you use pesticides, wash the harvest thoroughly before eating it!.
Keep in mind that we chlorinate water, put pesticides on foods, and put herbicides on foods, because there are things worse than bleach-tasting water and a few long term cumulative liver poisons!. There are a huge number of water borne illnesses, many things which bugs and pest-plants do which don't feed people, and even quite a few insect borne illnesses!.
Ten thousand years ago, there were no chlorinated water supplies, no pesticides, and no herbicides!. People lived about 25 to 35 years!. Getting grey hair was regarded as a wonder!. As a result, people probably listened to the superstitions of elderly people more than they should!.
Today we have many things in our water and food to worry about, and ways to treat them to make them less impure!. I like reverse osmosis for drinking water, because it gets out the chlorine taste and the fluoride!. I like washing fruits and vegetables very thoroughly, probably longer than most!.
But, even with all this gunk in our food and water, we live a lot longer!. The average American older than 5 years of age (lots of things affect infant mortality, which is much harder to improve because they have so little resistance to so many things) can expect to live to be 85!. That's a huge improvement!.
One other thing to consider is fasting for a day or two!. Drink water or juice, and let your body get rid of whatever you ate, whatever you drank!. It can also add a lot of clarity to your mind, since a hungry body is eager for action!. Once every three months can be a good fasting regimen - not for nursing mothers, pregnant women, etc!., but otherwise, eating every day isn't necessarily "normal!."Www@FoodAQ@Com
Well think about it logically, Eating little bits of this and that is natural in a diet!. Back in the day (Not that i was alive then) they were reduced to eating apples with worms and toxins in, and vegetables from ripe to rotten!.
The body is well equipped to repel toxins and harmful substances, so a trace amount of insecticide in the odd tomato is not something i would worry about!.
It is more than likely it is disposed of by the body before you have your next BLT!. :)Www@FoodAQ@Com
The body is well equipped to repel toxins and harmful substances, so a trace amount of insecticide in the odd tomato is not something i would worry about!.
It is more than likely it is disposed of by the body before you have your next BLT!. :)Www@FoodAQ@Com
It is statistically proven that people who eat food tend to live longer!.
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If you're worried, eat certified organic foods!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
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