Living A Healthy Lifestyle

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Living a healthy lifestyle. Eating organic and health foods can lead to a healthy, happier lifestyle. When we eat right we feel healthy mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually happy. We sometimes go grocery shopping and we grab foods without looking at the labels and the nutrition facts, thinking that they are healthy, or they are ok. But unfortunately not all of them are. When we choose to eat health, organic food we are picking foods that may lower many health risks and that are really beneficial in the long run. Organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial chemicals or genetic modification. Organic food production is based on a system of farming that maintains and replenishes soil fertility without the use of toxic and persistent pesticides and fertilizers. Organic foods are minimally processed without artificial ingredients, preservatives, or irradiation to maintain the integrity of the food. There was also a study published in Environmental Health Perspectives showed that consuming organic products may lower children's exposure to potentially damaging pesticides. Consumption of organic produce appears to provide a relatively simple way for parents to reduce their children's exposure to OP pesticides. In addition, studies comparing the nutritional value of organically grown and conventionally grown fruits showed that organically grown and conventionally grown fruits, vegetables, and grains, were significantly more of several nutrients in organic crops. These included: 27% more vitamin C, 21.1% more iron, 29.3% more magnesium, and 13.6% more phosphorus. In addition, organic products had 15.1% less nitrates than their conventional counterparts. Also, noting that five servings of organic vegetables (lettuce, spinach, carrots, potatoes and cabbage) provided the recommended daily intake of vitamin C

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