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Pesticides and Your Health
Should You Go Organic While Pregnant?
By Jenn Director Knudsen
, the study looked at about 20 preschool-age children – some ate predominantly organic, and others consumed mainly conventional foods.
Urine samples were taken to detect levels of the culprit compounds. The researchers found that children who ate mostly non-organic produce had six times more organophosphorus compounds in their system than did their organic-eating counterparts. Given these results, he says, why not switch to organic and avoid exposure to nasty compounds that could be bad for your health, short- and long-term? "It doesn't require a lot of thinking," he says. "We're talking about simply choosing."
But even Dr. Boyd concedes going organic isn't a possibility for everyone. The food tends to be more costly and is sometimes hard to access. "Wherever there is a Starbucks, there's an organic foods store," he says, remarking that organic food stores seem to be targeted to upper-middle to upper-income folks.
At New Seasons Market, a higher-end grocery store with five locations in and around Portland, Ore., which caters to the middle-to-upper-income shopper, local, organically grown lettuce sells for $1.49 a head. A conventional head goes for as low as $.99. Erik Levi, produce manager for one of the store's locations, says many of his customers request organic produce and rarely voice concern with its prices.
But down the street at Fred Meyer, a multi-department store whose clientele includes low-income consumers, produce employee Shane LoGreco says many people complain about the price of organic foods. There, organic cantaloupe sells for $1.19 a pound; the conventional variety goes for $.69 a pound.
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