Are Organic Foods a Healthier Alternative?

Eating organic foods is considered a healthy choice because you’re not dealing with pesticides, herbicides, genetic modification of the foods. It is pure food growing, in healthier soils. It’s done in a way that where the crops are rotated, and this allows the soils to become replenished.



General Nutrition: Are organic foods a healthier alternative to other foods?

• wordpress blogs]]> http://jeannecacciasilva.com/2009/07/are-organic-foods-a-healthier-alternative/feed/ 1 http://jeannecacciasilva.com/2009/07/what-is-organic-food/ http://jeannecacciasilva.com/2009/07/what-is-organic-food/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:07:23 +0000 Jeanne http://jeannecacciasilva.com/?p=1533 What is "organic" food? Organic food is basically unadulterated food. We have an informal definition of organic food, which is kind of "natural", and we have a legal definition of organic food, certified organic. What's important in organic food is that there are no added hormones, like bovine growth hormones, which can contribute to disease, and that we don't use synthetic and chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, and any other types of additives that are not natural in organic food.
  
  
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  What is “organic” food?

  Organic food is basically unadulterated food. We have an informal definition of organic food, which is kind of “natural”, and we have a legal definition of organic food, certified organic. What’s important in organic food is that there are no added hormones, like bovine growth hormones, which can contribute to disease, and that we don’t use synthetic and chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, and any other types of additives that are not natural in organic food.
  
  
  
  General Nutrition: What is “organic” food?

  

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