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Buy Organic

Although it is usually more expensive, organic produce is more nutritious and contains fewer harmful chemicals than commercially raised/grown food. When I say ‘more expensive’

I would like to clarify that in supermarkets, organically labelled food tends to be more expensive than non-organic, or commercially raised food. I have my doubts regarding the labelled foods in supermarkets and I must admit that I feel the

‘organic’ label is being used as a sales tool in a lot of places.

However, it is possible to acquire fresh produce of superb quality at local farmers markets and co-ops. Because you buy direct from the farmer the prices are generally much more reasonable than the equivalent ‘organic’ supermarket foods. The farmers may not have an organic logo to put on their produce, but they generally operate with integrity and a genuine love and passion for what they produce. Go out of your way to buy fresh, in season and locally grown food where possible rather than shopping at the supermarkets. If you buy food at the supermarket, even if it says ‘organic’ on the label, it may not be as nutritious as locally grown, fresh food that doesn’t carry the logo.

Look for butchers, farmer’s markets or cooperatives in your area. Talk to the farmers and get a feel for how passionate they are about their produce and work. You will find that the smaller-scale, local farmers care deeply about the quality of the food they sell. You will not get the same passion at a supermarket because the supermarkets compete on price, not quality. Using a farmer’s market or a good butcher usually removes a link in the financial retail chain. This makes purchasing your high quality foods much less expensive.

I highly recommend that you also research organic food

food in many countries. Shop around and find one that you like.

If you do need to shop at the supermarket, only shop round the edges/perimeter of the store. You will find the aisles are stacked with processed and packaged foods, but the fresh produce is almost always around the perimeter.

The food itself should be the only ingredient and it should not need a label. Apples, steak, salmon and carrots do not need ingredient labels telling you what is in them!

Do Not Fall For Clever Marketing

“Organic” or “Natural” on the label does not mean “Healthy”.

Organic sugar, pasteurised milk and white flour are not healthy, even if they are marketed as organically grown. This is one of my pet peeves. There is no doubt in my mind that companies are exploiting food labelling laws in combination with the organic movement. Some foods are just not good for you, it doesn’t matter whether they are ‘organic’ or not.

The more a product is advertised, the less healthy it is. Think of Coca-cola and Mars Bars. Some of the most destructive foods are those that just happen to be advertised most. You do not need to advertise good food – it advertises itself.

Frozen & Tinned Food

Try not to buy frozen food. Buy your food fresh and if you think you may not use it, or you want some food in the freezer to fall back on, freeze your freshly purchased foods.

Freezing causes foods to lose nutritional value, but home-freezing of fresh food can be convenient. Frozen food is better than tinned food, although I admit to keeping a stock of organic tinned tomatoes in my cupboard.

Meat

Buy the leanest cuts of meat, especially if you are unable to find organic or free range meats. Toxins are stored mainly in fatty areas of the body. When an animal consumes toxins, they are stored in the fat because most toxins are what we call fat-soluble. If you then eat the animal fat, you also get a dose of toxins.

This doesn’t apply so much to animals that are fed a natural diet and kept in optimal living conditions. These animals will generally be much healthier and happier! Cows that live in barns all their lives and chickens that are caged in disgusting battery farms should be avoided completely.

Poultry & Eggs

A recent U.K government survey showed that organic laying hen farms have significantly lower levels of Salmonella. The study showed that 23.4 per cent of farms with caged hens tested positive for Salmonella compared to only 4.4 per cent in organic flocks and 6.5 per cent in free-range flocks.

Eggs laid by free range hens have also been shown to contain less saturated fat and cholesterol and more vitamin A, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin E and beta-carotene, than commercially laid eggs. The message is this: go out of your way to avoid battery hens! The birds do not see the light of day, live in tiny cages and eat foods that they were never designed to eat, including their own shit!

Seafood

When you buy seafood, try to buy smaller species of wild, coldwater fish: sardines, herring, mackerel, sea-bass are good examples. Almost all seafood is now contaminated with mercury. The further up the food chain you go, the higher the levels of mercury are. This means that fish such as shark,

Try to avoid farmed fish as they tend to harbour the highest concentrations of toxic metals. You will also see, for example, that the flesh of farmed salmon contains much bigger fatty streaks in their meat than that of wild Alaskan or sockeye salmon.

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