Showing posts with label organic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organic. Show all posts

Friday, March 23, 2012

7 Foods that should never cross our lips

This article upsets me.  I eat these foods most everyday.  I was raised on these foods.  The salmon I buy at the grocery store says "farm-raised".  There isn't a store near me that has the other kinds of foods that I'm supposed to eat.  And they are so expensive.  If these foods are so bad for us, why are they out there and why are they being sold to us?????

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Organic foods

So as I grew up, I ate the foods my family fed me, which was grown on their own land and harvested and cooked by them.  As I grew older and married, I moved to the big city and bought my food in a grocery store, just as most others did.  And now I see that all those foods in the grocery stores have been chemically altered, sprayed with pesticides and herbicides and the animals given growth hormones. 

I have never been so confused about food as I am now.  After getting diabetes last year, I have researched food non-stop and now I want to buy as much organic as I can (or home-grown as I call it), but it is so expensive.  I don't live near a farmer's market and don't have a back yard, so I'm looking into maybe ordering organic online or traveling 30 miles a week to pick up homegrown foods.  But then I look at the cost and I go, is it worth it?  My health is worth it, definitely.

Here is an article from the Mayo Clinic about organic foods.  Let me know your opinions and where you shop.