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By Natalya Podgorny, Yoga+
When You Can’t Go 100% Organic
Even if you can’t afford to buy everything local and organic, the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a watchdog and research nonprofit, has identified the “dirty dozen”–those fruits and veggies that contain the highest amounts of pesticides. For these, it might be worth paying for the organic versions. Among conventionally grown, try sticking to the “cleanest 12.” The produce ranking was developed by EWG analysts based on the results of nearly 51,000 tests for pesticides on produce collected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration between 2000 and 2005. An EWG simulation of thousands of consumers eating high and low pesticide diets showed that people can lower their pesticide exposure by almost 90% by avoiding the top 12 most contaminated fruits and vegetables and eating the least contaminated instead. View the next two pages to see the top 12 dirtiest and cleanest fruits and veggies.
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Megan, selected from Yoga+ Magazine
Yoga International is an award-winning, independent magazine that contemplates the deeper dimensions of spiritual life--exploring the power of yoga practice and philosophy to not only transform our bodies and minds, but inspire meaningful engagement in our society, environment, and the global community.
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Those benefits really add up on page 1. When I'm driving I often do breathing exercises. I keep…
thank you :-)
very shocking facts for a basic necessity! i've never seen organic pads ever before in the market!
Interesting stuff, particularly as I know a few people who have Celiac and also are on gluten free d…
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Thank you for the list. I copied it to use to post on my fridge and also made a copy for my daughter! I agree that we should also be growing some of our own food, so we know what's used on them. It's easy now to grow organically!
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thanx Megan, good article, God Bless.
Past Member ...they are...that's why the healthier cost more...system is Corporate controlled. We need to keep pounding their heads to get it over to them that this is all just wrong as can be..write to your polly reps...regularly about this . Tell them to start thinking about the people again.
I thought that maybe it depended on root crop or producing above the ground - obviously not.
So then I wondered about how the different plants feed themselves - but I don't know enough about that to judge.
The 2 list seem fairly arbitrary, to someone who is not in-the-know - like me.
Have tests been carried out, at all? I've seen the "bad list" on other sites too.
Yeah, I'd like to know the why of cabbage, brocolli, and eggplant. They are not peeled.
Organic is so expensive, and not all of us have space for growing our own. It's just crazy that the more cheaply we eat, the more we go to the doctors' for health problems. The more we spend organically, the less we need the doctor. Either way, you spend in the thousands per year. What's up with that?
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