February 2, 2009

Organic Food

People found many ways to make fruits grow faster and look better. Strawberries are now 2-3 times larger then they used to be. Worms are not eating our fruits. But what is the price we are paying for it? All the chemicals that go into the ground end up being absorbed by fruits and vegetables that grow on it. These chemicals end up being a part of these plants. When we eat this fruits and vegetables we also consume everything that these plants absorbed, including the chemicals.

Pesticides are used to keep bugs from eating plants. If worms don’t want to eat these chemicals, why would we want to eat an apple that has this pesticide all over it?


Once we eat these foods, chemicals that are on them end up traveling through our body until it reaches liver and kidneys. Both liver and kidneys can help us get rid of toxic chemicals. If we eat inorganic fruit once in a great blue moon, it’s not that bad. Our body can take care of itself and rid itself of the toxins. Sadly many of us eat non organic food every day. Liver and kidneys end up being overworked and start breaking just like a car that was driven too far without a tune up. With these organs unable to function, toxins will start building up and will slowly poison the whole body.


Now lets look at poultry and other meats. Chickens are often given antibiotics. Organisms can become resistant to antibiotics. This is exactly what happened to some of the most problematic bacteria that are now spreading in the population. MRSA and VRE are two of these bacteria and they are a very big problem in hospitals as it is very hard to treat wounds infected by these organisms. By giving antibiotics to animals, we increase the chances of giving more bacteria this resistance.


Antibiotics are not the only problem with meat. Animals are fed foods that have chemicals in them. The healthier animal’s diet is, the healthier meat will be. Milk and eggs are affected greatly by foods animals eat.


Be nice to your body, you need it. Feed it well. Give it healthy food.

So much to tell my readers

I started writing about diabetes the other day, wanted to have one nice post that will explain everything that people need to know about diabetes. Soon enough I realized that there is no way to get all the information into one post. So I changed my plan. I will now start a new blog for every disease and will write a new post on each of the blogs once each week. This way everyone will have enough time to read a post and think about it. Try to follow advice from the post. It will also give me time to work on other diseases. All new blogs about diseases can be found in “My Blog List.” If you would like me to write about any specific disease, let me know and I will gladly investigate this disease and write about it.

Each article is based on medical facts. Some of the terminology so rather complicated. I’m trying to make it as simple as I can. However it is not always easy. I’m used to medical language and don’t always know which words are easy to understand and which words are not. I often use scientific and medical words in my day to day conversations, so for me it might seem like something everyone should know. If you can’t understand some of these terms, feel free to ask me for clarification.


Some of the articles are rather complicated and need some thinking. In order to really understand a disease and it’s treatments you will need to apply some critical thinking. Don’t take any information for granted, think about it. If you read about a side effect, think why this side effect occurs. If you read about a symptom, think what causes this symptom. This is the only way to really understand the disease.


I will write about health topics that don’t require as much attention and will post it on this blog. Don’t take me wrong, things I will post here are very important for overall health, they are just much smaller and don’t require the whole new blog. I’ll be posting an article about organic foods on this blog shortly.