Five Easy Ways to Go Organic

From the NY Times Well blog comes 5 ways to go organic if you need to choose, and you can't go completely organic. Some is better than none, right? Here is a bit from the blog post...

Five Easy Ways to Go Organic

"Switching to organic is tough for many families who don’t want to pay higher prices or give up their favorite foods. But by choosing organic versions of just a few foods that you eat often, you can increase the percentage of organic food in your diet without big changes to your shopping cart or your spending.

The key is to be strategic in your organic purchases. Opting for organic produce, for instance, doesn’t necessarily have a big impact, depending on what you eat. According to the Environmental Working Group, commercially-farmed fruits and vegetables vary in their levels of pesticide residue. Some vegetables, like broccoli, asparagus and onions, as well as foods with peels, such as avocados, bananas and oranges, have relatively low levels compared to other fruits and vegetables.

So how do you make your organic choices count? Pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene, whose new book “Raising Baby Green” explains how to raise a child in an environmentally-friendly way, has identified a few “strategic” organic foods that he says can make the biggest impact on the family diet. "

Here is the list of the 5 ways. See the article for more specific information.

1. Milk
2. Potatoes
3. Peanut butter
4. Ketchup
5. Apples

For a complete list of Dr. Greene’s strategic organic choices, visit Organic Rx on his website.

Posted by: Michael Pingicer, M.S., L.Ac.
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