Sentences with phrase «eat by pesticides»

We believe organic is important for lots of reasons, from the quality of our environment to the risk of contamination of the food we eat by pesticides and heavy metals.

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RMIT University Eating a mainly organic diet for just seven days can reduce pesticide exposure in adults by almost 90 per cent, a world - first RMIT University study has found.

That's why it's important for pregnant women to beware of meat, poultry, and fish that may contain harmful toxins such as antibiotics, growth hormones, or mercury; and minimize their exposure to pesticide residues by eating organic fruits and vegetables.

Children who typically eat organic fruits and vegetables have lower levels of pesticides in their bodies, as shown by studies.

When the kids ate only organic fruits, veggies, juice, pasta, cereal and salsa, the levels of several organophosphate pesticides in their bodies plummeted (as measured by urine analysis), scientists reported in 2006 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

It's estimated that they save us millions of pounds in pesticides by eating insects.

Men who ate fruits and vegetables with higher levels of pesticide residues — such as strawberries, spinach, and peppers — had lower sperm count and a lower percentage of normal sperm than those who ate produce with lower residue levels, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Ensure that the food your child is eating is clean by checking out the EWG's «Dirty Dozen» list and avoiding the top pesticide - laden foods.

The focus of the report was to understand the impact of exposure to pesticides eaten in foods by pregnant women and the subsequent risk of developmental issues.

In the meantime, by eating food coated with pesticides, we're all conducting a sort of long - term experiment on our own bodies, and we'll have the answers eventually.

Start by eating organic fruits and vegetables from the Dirty Dozen without pesticides, herbicides and other chemicals.

Research done by the Environmental Working Group shows that consumers can lower their pesticide exposure by almost 90 % by avoiding the 12 most contaminated conventional fruits and vegetables and eating the 12 least contaminated instead.

♥ Minimize exposure to antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, artificial colors / flavors / sweeteners and preservatives by eating organic whole foods.

Add to this the fact that the animals we eat are also often fed genetically modified pesticide treated seeds and grains (cows are supposed to eat grass by the way!)

Her sons with allergies and autism symptoms that got better when they avoided GMOs and pesticides by eating organic.

Increasingly fertilizers, pesticides, PCBs, and industrial solvents find their way into the environment to get concentrated by the animals that eat them.

I'll assume by now that you realize eating pesticides on fruits and vegetables can be harmful to your health.

I hope and pray that when it's the end of the month and I couldn't afford the organic apples instead of the conventional ones, hopefully at least I'm doing something better for my body by eating the potentially pesticide - ridden apple than I would be doing by eating a bag of Cheetos... I don't know... like some cosmic karmic good - effort thanks - for - trying points or something...

We try so hard by eating organic fruits and vegetables to avoid consuming pesticides and they are most likely in our water!

He presented double - blind placebo - controlled studies on various nutrients as well as his own case studies, proving that eating foods in their natural state - unaltered by cooking, processing, preservatives, chemical fertilizers, fungicides, pesticides, or genetic modification - does indeed provide the body with all the essential vitamins, minerals, live enzymes, and phytochemicals - everything it needs to prevent and fight off disease and create vitality.»

We are exposed to hormone disrupting chemicals (endocrine disrupters) on a daily basis by the air we breathe, the food we eat, plastics, cosmetics, body products, cleaning supplies, pesticides, etc..

The Environmental Working Group has found that people can lower their pesticide exposure by almost 80 percent by avoiding the top twelve most contaminated fruits and vegetables (or buying them organic) and eating the least contaminated instead.

By using certified organic produce you are guaranteed that you are not eating genetically modified foods, and that your food is pesticide free.

By choosing organic, one hopes to shift exposures from a range of uncertain risk to more of a range of negligible risk, but even if all we had to eat were the most pesticide - laden of conventional produce, there is a clear consensus in the scientific community that the health benefits from consuming fruits and vegetables outweigh any potential risks from pesticide residues.

Unfortunately leafy greens (and I eat tons of them) and other magnesium rich foods have been becoming less and less rich in magnesium over the years, as the soil becomes depleted by chemical fertilizers, and overloaded with pesticides and more.

Our risk of DNA damage through pesticide exposure by eating conventional produce is outweighed by the anti-cancer effects of eating more fruits and vegetables.

Given the latest science, are you still standing by your earlier statement that the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables even if non organic and pesticide ridden far outweighs the risks?

While it is impossible to avoid phthalates completely, we can drastically decrease our exposure by avoiding plastics to the best of our ability, especially in the kitchen (replace plastic storage containers with glass ones), avoiding synthetic fragrances (assume that any product that lists «fragrance,» «perfume» or «parfum» as an ingredient contains the chemical), purchase phthalate - free makeup, eat organic whenever possible (to avoid phthalates in pesticides), and finally, by avoiding the use of scented candles and air fresheners with synthetic scents (pure essential oils are a healthier alternative).

If Parkinson's disease may partly be triggered by pesticides, shouldn't we worry more about our fruit consumption (especially if we eat lots of them, especially those most exposed to pesticides) than our cheese consumption?

By eating wild salmon, you can avoid eating farmed fish, which are often fed antibiotics and exposed to pesticides.

And by the way, the word «organic» is meaningful for food products, and children who eat organically grown fruits and vegetables have one - sixth the levels of organophosphate pesticides in their urine compared to children who don't eat organic fruits and vegetables.

They're also compiling exhaustive data, recorded and reported each year by the dogs» owners, on every aspect of the pooches» lives: What they eat, where they sleep, whether their lawns are treated with pesticides, whether their teeth get brushed and more.

Though widespread throughout Armenia, storks are threatened in some areas by pesticides and heavy metals in the environment, which accumulate throughout the food chain in the fish and small animals the big birds eat.

Of all dietary pesticides that humans eat, 99.99 % are natural: they are chemicals produced by plants to defend themselves against fungi, insects, and other animal predators.

, and choosing sustainable food options by eating more organic food, reducing food waste and eating more meatless meals (did you know that six billion pounds of pesticides are applied to food crops annually?

Take care in eating already - dead insects, as they may have been killed by pesticide.

Thanks to a study by the Environmental Working Group's Top Ten Foods to Eat Organically, (who've done lots of worthwhile work in the past, including finding benzene in soda and creating a national tap water quality database), we now know where to look for alternatives to high - pesticide conventional produce when organics aren't available.

Pesticides have been found in half the foods eaten by Europeans, with six of the most dangerous consistently in the top ten measured.

The study suggests that by eating organically grown versions of those foods highest in pesticide residues, we can make a measurable difference in the levels of pesticides in our bodies.»

Grow your own food — Nothing like eating garden fresh fruit and veggies, especially if it hasn't been tainted by synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.