12 WORST Pesticide Containing Fruits and Vegetables!
If you follow my blog or have read my blog, the “Dirty Dozen” published by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) might sound familiar to you. They use data compiled by the USDA to create a list of the fruits and vegetables with the highest levels of pesticides. An updated 2011 list was just published and apples [...]
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Study Alert: Link Between Pesticide Exposure and ADHD
As a mom to two young children, recent findings published in Pediatric journal were of great interest to me. According to a study conducted by Harvard University and the University of Montreal, in which urine samples were studied for over 1,100 children aged 8 to 15, for traces of organophosphate pesticide. Children with the highest [...]
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Organic Foods Q & A
The craze over organic foods is growing, but what is it really about? There are plenty of questions regarding “green eating”, and I encourage you to look more into organic eating if this is something you are interested in learning about. 1.) What does it mean for a food to be organic? It is food [...]
