Let Food Be Thy Medicine, Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.)

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Pesticides, Artificial Colors, and Waxes

You can easily remove a caterpillar from your lettuce and then wash the leaves to remove all traces of the insect. But it is nearly impossible to remove all pesticide residues because they penetrate into the cellular structure of the fruits, grains and vegetables. Washing can remove some residues, but these chemicals are made to penetrate. If they were not, then every time the plant was watered they would come off and need to be re-applied. Peeling cannot remove all residues either because of the penetration factor, and the body needs the valuable fiber and nutrients lost in peeling. Is a peeled apple a whole food the way God intended it to be eaten? I believe that a peeled apple is much better than no apple at all, but not as good as an unpeeled organic one because many foods have the bulk of the nutrients closest to the skin.

Some foods have been genetically modified to have the pesticide actually growing in the fibers of the plant! No pests will eat it; would you? Corn is notorious for this. The only way to be sure that the food you are eating is free of these chemicals is to buy organic.