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- Dr. Frank Lipman
- June 20, 2010
- 5:11 pm
- 87 comments
To me, healthy eating simply means removing, or limiting, the foods in your diet that could be harming you; and eating enough of the foods that contain the nutrients essential to your health. So, what foods could be harming you? Ones filled with chemicals. Here are some of the main sources of unhealthy chemicals in our food:
Chemicals and drugs used in raising livestock
Researchers feel that this is probably the biggest problem and none of these are required to appear on the label. Over 70 percent of all antibiotics used in the USA are used in raising livestock to prevent infection because the animals are kept in cramped inhumane conditions.
Steroids are also given to increase milk production and speed growth. The feed given to these animals is full of chemicals as well and pesticides and chemicals accumulate in the fat of these animals that we then eat. So if you do eat dairy or animal protein, eating organic is important to decrease your chemical burden.
Chemicals used in pesticides and fertilizers
Although the use of pesticides has made our food production more efficient, it has placed a huge/large toxic burden on us and the earth. In 1995, more than 5 billion pounds of pesticides were sold worldwide, more than 1 billion pounds in the USA. FDA inspections have found legal residues on two thirds of food sampled, therefore these pesticides remain on our food.
According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), you can lower your pesticide consumption by nearly four-fifths by avoiding the 12 most contaminated fruits and vegetables and instead eating the least contaminated produce.
Read more: Diet & Nutrition, Eating for Health, Food, Green Kitchen Tips, Revive with Dr. Frank Lipman, chemicals, food, organic, pesticide
Dr. Frank Lipman
Frank Lipman MD is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of Integrative and Functional Medicine. A practicing physician, he is the founder and director of the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in NYC, where for over 20 years his personal brand of healing has helped thousands of people reclaim their vitality. To bring his approach to a wider audience, he created Eleven Eleven Wellness, Guided Health Solutions. He is the author of Revive (previously called Spent) and Total Renewal. To hang with Frank, visit his blog, follow him on Twitter or join his Facebook community today.
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Excellent information, thanks! A better title might be "Where Do Harmful Chemicals in Our Food Come From?" since life results from chemical processes. It's amazing how many people say they don't want any chemicals in their food, when they really mean they don't want dangerous ones added.
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It's great to get this info from a doctor. So often nutrition is not particularly addressed in check-ups. Thanks Dr. Frank Lipman.
thans
Good to know. Thanks :-)
Good information, thank you....
thank you.
Thanks for the information.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Dr. Lipman
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