Expression GreenExpressing the need for a healthy green lifestyle

Now I am not talk­ing about a veg­i­t­ar­ian diet…I’m talk­ing about an ORGANIC diet! 

I know for a fact that in the last 3 years, organic foods have really hit the mar­ket hard. Almost every­one of us could look through our kitchens and find organic dairy, produce, or meat prod­ucts (along with every­thing in between).

With organic foods and prod­ucts flood­ing the mar­ket, the idea of lead­ing a healthy life is no longer just an idea…it’s a reality…for any­one! I know for a fact that my over­all level of feel­ing healthy, has increased dra­mat­i­cally since I started replac­ing what I eat with organic sub­sti­tutes.

I never would have thought that what I had been eat­ing and buy­ing from the store for years, was actu­ally play­ing a part in my over all health…even though I was doing every­thing I could to lead an above aver­age healthy life. Due to the addi­tion of healthy organic foods into my life…I feel I am finally reach­ing my stan­dard of a healthy life.

 Non organic foods con­tain so many things that in my opin­ion are harm­ful to our bod­ies. Things like non-organic chem­i­cal based fer­til­iz­ers, pes­ti­cides, and herbacides put into the mix of the growth process with all of our nor­mal pro­duce from the gro­cery store. Then you have the won­der­ful advance­ment in our food pro­duc­tion… GMO ‘s (genet­i­cally mod­i­fied organ­isms) which involve the process of mod­i­fy­ing the genetic struc­ture of what we eat!

 I’m sorry I just want food…I don’t feel that it is right to have all of these harm­ful chem­i­cals intro­duced to us via what we eat. We eat to live and be healthy…not to line the pock­ets of mass food producers.…bottom line.

I know eat­ing organic and liv­ing a health­ier ‘green’ life seems like it is some­what out of reach due to the cost factor…but it is a must to really think about you and your family’s over­all health. I’ve had to cut back on some of my family’s lux­u­ries like going out to eat all of the time…but I know for a fact that I am dodg­ing the bul­let when it comes to the expo­sure to harsh chem­i­cals and genet­i­cally mod­i­fied foods. And not only that…I know for a fact that when we sit down for din­ner every night…my fam­ily is gain­ing the right nutri­ents they need to live a healthy ‘Green’ life.

Think about the fol­low­ing the next time you go shop­ping for you and/or your family:

- Your buy­ing food that has been intro­duced to chemicals

- The safety of your children…because it is a fact that chil­dren ARE more vul­ner­a­ble to every­thing (this also includes the safety of peo­ple over 65)

- The organic pro­duce, meat, and dairy prod­ucts that are avail­able to you, more than likely trav­eled  half the dis­tance to your gro­cery store than your non organic foods (mean­ing they are fresher). Not only that, they are nor­mally pro­duced by MUCH smaller farms.

- In real­ity organ­ics really are not more expensive. I know the price tags are higher(which with con­ven­tional pro­duce this can be a sign of under­paid work­ers) but there are many hid­den costs in con­ven­tional foods includ­ing: bil­lions of dol­lars in fed­eral agri­cul­ture and energy sub­sides favor­ing big busi­ness, chem­i­cal reg­u­la­tion and test­ing, haz­ardous waste dis­posal, and envi­ron­men­tal dam­age (and the cleanup involved). These are not nec­es­sary and are harm­ful to us and our planet.

- Organic foods TASTE BETTER and have higher level of vit­a­mins, min­er­als, and ben­e­fi­cial nutrients.

- Finally the organic foods you see, as you browse though the gro­cery store, are required (in order to be cer­ti­fied USDA Organic) to be free of: GMOs, rBGH or rBST (growth hor­mones in dairy prod­ucts), antibi­otics, and the arse­nal of chem­i­cals that are intro­duced to con­ven­tional non-organic foods. 

I hope this post hits home a lit­tle bit and brings you and your fam­ily closer to a ‘greener’…healthier lifestyle.

Thank you for read­ing and don’t stop express­ing your green!

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