Pure.

30Aug09

I think I’ve always been this way. This way being I never liked the idea of putting foreign chemicals into my body and this includes medication. Yes, I am on some medication, but I’ve had to retrain my mind into thinking “this is healthy for my body” instead of “taking this will harm my body”. For me, I just don’t know, and I haven’t looked it up, into learning more about the long term effects of chemicals (including pesticides) in the body. I’m sure if I started some research, I may not like the findings I find.

Therefore, I’m very concerned with the amount of pesticides in my food. As a preference, I prefer to eat organic foods rather than conventional. Somewhere, on some TV show, I heard that even though you wash the produce that is conventional (as in non-organic) the pesticide still remains on the food, except it’s now in the food. This scares me. I explained my fear to my ever loving boyfriend (were both into fitness and eating healthy), and he agrees. It’s so challenging, almost frustrating at times, to know what is truly organic and what isn’t. Just because something says “organic” doesn’t mean that it is. For safe measure, if I see the USDA organic seal, I trust that the product is organic. However, really… how do you know?

Because of this, I trust that the food I buy at a speciality store like Whole Foods is pure, natural and free of pesticides. True, not all foods there are free of the pesticides, but trust only goes so far. This is something I am going to research. If there are greater benefits of eating simply organic rather than conventional, why not make the switch?

Organic is a matter of preference, and it’s what I prefer.

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