Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Every organic product tested contained some level of pesticide residue. It may well be much less by a factor of 5, than other products that are produced with pesticides, but there is still a residue of pesticides in organics, and the reason for that is that pesticide chemicals do not respect boundaries, they do not respect geographical boundaries. The molecules of pesticides attach themselves to dust particles and go everywhere. Pesticides are being found in the Artic, in the bodies of polar bears, so we cannot escape synthetic chemicals, especially pesticides. |
| We also find the problem of pesticide contamination of organic products. Every organic product tested contained some level of pesticide residue. It may well be much less by a factor of 5, than other products that are produced with pesticides, but there is still a residue of pesticides in organics, and the reason for that is that pesticide chemicals do not respect boundaries, they do not respect geographical boundaries. The molecules of pesticides attach themselves to dust particles and go everywhere. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are likely pesticide residues in the non-organic juice products. Pesticides aren't listed on the ingredients label, but they're nonetheless present. However, the benefits of consuming these superfruits far outweighs the health effects of trace pesticide consumption, in my opinion, so from a personal perspective, you're still protecting your health with these juice products even if you consume some pesticide residues. For the record, I do not support pesticide use in agriculture and I believe that consumers should buy organic products whenever possible.
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Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Department of Agriculture's pesticide Data Program (PDP) had detectable levels of at least one pesticide."11
"PDP data from 1994-96 ... [stated 25] percent of the samples had detectable levels of carcinogenic pesticides, and 34 percent" possessed detectable levels of neurotoxic pesticides. |
| How to Eliminate Toxins from Pesticides
You can reduce the levels of pesticides you consume by 90% just by avoiding the crop items containing the highest levels of pesticide residue. These items include fruits such as peaches, apples, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, pears, grapes, and vegetables such as sweet bell peppers, celery, carrots, and spinach. Of course, if these items are grown organically, they will be okay.
• If you are able, grow your own food using organic growing methods. This is the best way to ensure you are not exposing yourself or your family to pesticides. |
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| The researchers found that the pesticide levels in the children dropped immediately when they started eating organic foods. The staying power of the pesticides was "relatively short," Lu says.
HEALTH RISKS NOT CLEAR
Lu acknowledges that the health risks of the pesticides in question are not entirely clear. "Whether [these results are] important in terms of health effects remains to be seen," he says, noting that scientists do not know exactly how the pesticides affect the body over time.
There is evidence that they're dangerous, says Dr. Nathan M. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| However, the benefits of consuming these superfruits far outweighs the health effects of trace pesticide consumption, in my opinion, so from a personal perspective, you're still protecting your health with these juice products even if you consume some pesticide residues. For the record, I do not support pesticide use in agriculture and I believe that consumers should buy organic products whenever possible.
4. Some of the healthiest products taste the most bitter. The best-tasting products likely use filler juices such as apple juice and grape juice (which tastes sugary!). |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 This suggests, say the authors, that the commonly used pesticide methoxychlor might stimulate autoimmunity at a much lower dose than doses necessary to cause other adverse health effects, and is "therefore of particular interest for risk assessment."
Pesticide manufacturers dismiss the idea that pesticides pose health risks, arguing that it is an extrapolation to say that a given exposure that leads to disease in mice will do the same in humans. |
| People with the RR genotype have two copies of the R variant of the PON1 gene, producing a PON1 enzyme that is more resistant to pesticide exposure because the enzyme helps to break down and eliminate pesticides from the body.
The PON1 enzyme also varies by ethnicity. Approximately 50 percent of whites have the QQ genotype, compared with 25 to 35 percent of the Latino population and 10 to 20 percent of African Americans—making Caucasians most susceptible to the ill effects of pesticides. |
| In looking at infants born to Latinas who were exposed to these pesticides, researchers found that infants who inherited the QQ genotype were 50 times more susceptible to pesticide exposure than newborns with the RR genotype, because babies with the QQ genotype do not possess the ability to break down the toxic metabolites. This is particularly frightening given that animal studies show that exposure to or-ganophosphates tampers heavily with normal neurodevelopment, and studies in infants show that pesticide exposure is related to abnormal reflexes as early as in the first few days of life. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| However, the benefits of consuming these superfruits far outweighs the health effects of trace pesticide consumption, in my opinion, so from a personal perspective, you're still protecting your health with these juice products even if you consume some pesticide residues. For the record, I do not support pesticide use in agriculture and I believe that consumers should buy organic products whenever possible.
4. Some of the healthiest products taste the most bitter. The best-tasting products likely use filler juices such as apple juice and grape juice (which tastes sugary!). |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| For a full list of pesticide containing foods, visit www.ewg.org
Will Washing and Peeling Help Reduce Pesticides?
You should always thoroughly wash fresh produce before eating it, but doing so doesn't guarantee you will be able to completely eliminate all the toxic pesticides. The same applies for peeling—it can help reduce the amount of toxins to which your body is exposed, but even this doesn't make food 100% safe. Also, the skin stores a large percentage of the nutrients in many fruits, so peeling them to eat just the interior portion greatly reduces their nutritional value. |
Ron Garner
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 Environmental Protection Agency attempts to monitor pesticide exposure levels for human health risk, it subscribes to the guideline that "the dose makes the poison"; as long as the exposure is low enough, it does not cause serious harm. But is that the case?
According to a National Academy of Science report, 70 pesticides known to cause cancer in animals are allowed in commercial foods.11 pesticide chemicals can accumulate to toxic levels in body fat. Many of them are linked to the disruption of nervous, endocrine, and reproductive systems. |
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| THE STUDY
Lu says the impetus for the study was a previous research project that examined pesticide levels in 110 children and found only one child whose body was pesticide-free—a child who regularly ate organic food.
Parents should not feed their children less nutritious foods out offear of pesticides.
Nathan M. Graber, MD
For the current study, funded by the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA), researchers recruited 23 children, ages three to 11, from Seattle-area schools. |
| Researchers found that pesticide levels in children's bodies dropped to zero after just a few days of eating organic produce and grains.
"After they switch back to a conventional diet, the levels go up," says Chensheng Lu, coauthor of the study and an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health at Emory University in Atlanta.
THE STUDY
Lu says the impetus for the study was a previous research project that examined pesticide levels in 110 children and found only one child whose body was pesticide-free—a child who regularly ate organic food. |
Andreas Moritz
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 For example, there exists a strong connection between pesticide use and the antioxidant content of food. Crops that are visited and stressed by insects are known to produce polyphenolic compounds, which are naturally potent antioxidants. These compounds not only ward off insects, but also increase the nutritional value of the plants. However, when crops are treated with pesticides, they don't need the natural protection of polyphenolics, and produce less of these compounds.
Foods that contain pesticides are not only less beneficial in the nutritional sense, but also quite harmful. The U.K. |
Mark Sircus
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 When the kids started eating conventionally grown food again, their pesticide levels shot back up. The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives clearly shows that pesticide-free food leads to pesticide-free kids. United Press International, Christine DelPAmore, 22 Feb 2006
I was lucky enough to be found by www.bulknuts4you.com who are a good source of foods high in magnesium. I seriously recommend the purchase of brazil nuts and toasted sesame seeds (very high in magnesium and calcium) and in general use organic whole grain foods, all of which you will find at this site. |
Walter Last
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 In animal experiments, chronic systemic pesticide exposure reproduced the features of Parkinson's disease.
People who use pesticides in their homes are twice as likely to develop Parkinson's disease as people not exposed to domestic pesticides. Also, a combination of different pesticides is more likely to cause greater toxicity problems than exposure to individual chemicals.
Paraquat, a common herbicide, and maneb, a common fungicide, did not affect mice that were exposed to either one of them. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| It is worthwhile noting," say the study's authors, that the lower dose of the organochlorine pesticide methoxychlor that mice were exposed to was "4-fold lower" than the level set by the Environmental Protection Agency as acceptable. This suggests, say the authors, that the commonly used pesticide methoxychlor might stimulate autoimmunity at a much lower dose than doses necessary to cause other adverse health effects, and is "therefore of particular interest for risk assessment. |
Devra Davis
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 Adami and Trichopoulos were well compensated for their efforts on behalf of the pesticide and solvents industries.35 Were these eminent epidemiologists just calling it like they sawr it? Did industries engage them only because they happened to agree with the judgment that particular exposures to a given product, whether asbestos or pesticides or chemicals, had not been proved to cause human harm?
Typically, these scientists' work for these firms involved reviewing whatever published information was available on any given health threat. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 A Swedish study in 1983 found that the milk of nursing mothers who regularly ate fatty fish from the Baltic Sea had higher levels of PCBs and pesticide residues than even meat-eaters. Lactovegetarians were found to have the lowest pesticide residues in this study.
Dairy Consumption
For everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 Avoiding contact with pesticides and pesticide residues may be an important preventive measure for Parkinson's and other diseases. Interestingly, consumption of the fat substitute olestra appears to increase elimination of certain organochlorine pesticides in the feces.11'12 However, no scientific studies have tested olestra as a possible treatment or preventive measure against Parkinson's disease. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 From the figures I've seen, fruit and fruit juice tend to be more highly contaminated with pesticide residues than other classes of foods. Children eat more fruit and drink by far more fruit juice than adults. From this source alone, they could very easily ingest toxic levels of pesticide residues."
The third aspect of treatment is nutritional supplementation. "For practically all children, we recommend a high-quality hypoallergenic multiple vitamin," Dr. Buttram says. "We use one by Klaire Labs, which makes vitamins separate from minerals. We don't recommend giving large doses. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Our chemical companies even manufacture and export pesticide chemicals that have been banned in the United States. Poor agricultural nations openly use those deadly pesticides on their crops, then ship the produce back to the U.S. where consumers buy it at grocery stores. It's all perfectly legal and, in fact, encouraged by U.S. political leaders.
Resistance is futile
It's actually more than legal: It's required! Any nation that says "no" to western products and intellectual property is immediately branded an enemy of world trade and is targeted for legal action by the WTO. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Environmental Protection Agency, "Adverse effects of pesticide exposure range from mild symptoms of dizziness and nausea to serious, long-term neurological, developmental and reproductive disorders. Americans use more than a billion pounds of pesticides each year to combat pests on farm crops, in homes, places of business, schools, parks, hospitals, and other public places. For the first time, the EPA is calling for hundreds of additional studies on pesticides to better understand their effects on children specifically (developmental neurotoxicity, acute and subchronic neurotoxicity). |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| This is particularly frightening given that animal studies show that exposure to or-ganophosphates tampers heavily with normal neurodevelopment, and studies in infants show that pesticide exposure is related to abnormal reflexes as early as in the first few days of life. Combined exposure to mixtures of pesticides is also related to significantly higher rates of asthma in children under the age of two. |
Devra Davis
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| We will probably never know whether Doll's, Adami's, and Tri-chopoulos's ideas about how scientists should study industrial hazards were at all colored by the fact that these eminent epidemiologists secretly served as highly paid consultants for the asbestos, chemical and pesticide industries.34 For years, Doll, in addition to his work for the asbestos industry, was paid to advise Monsanto and Dow Chemical. Adami and Trichopoulos were well compensated for their efforts on behalf of the pesticide and solvents industries.35 Were these eminent epidemiologists just calling it like they sawr it? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Recent examples include issuing a joint statement with the Chlorine Institute justifying the continued global use of persistent organochlorine pesticides, and also supporting the industry in trivializing dietary pesticide residues as avoidable risks of childhood cancer. ACS policies are further exemplified by allocating under 0.1 percent of its $700 million annual budget to environmental and occupational causes of cancer."
You can read the incredible history of the ACS's opposition to regulation of toxic chemicals here: http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/acs/rejects_regulation. |
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