Organic Food: the Benefits of Eating and how Food Impact your Life
“We are what we eat”
It is vitally important to eat organic food ?
Is not only a well-known expression but a true reflection of what is happening today throughout the world. Over 2 billion people in the world suffer from obesity, while 36 million people will die this year from starvation.
What we eat can make a difference not only in our health but can elevate our consciousness. Too much of our food has been so modified that it has lost much of what nature originally intended.
So yes, it is vitally important to eat organic food!
Not only that, our food often comes from thousands of miles away.
We are disconnected from the way it was grown and the people who grew it, which ultimately leads us to be disconnected from ourselves.
Our disconnection causes us to drive from the desire to need, and from the need to attainment, without being able to see the big picture.
We search for the latest fad diet, the best clothing, the most exotic places to visit, or something different to spice up our lives.
Each of us has an endless list of things that we need to feel happy and alive. Why do we feel the need to experience so many different things? Do we really need so much?
How can we attempt to reconnect once again to the non-causal flow of love?
By living a lifestyle that emanates consciousness, we can begin to live on a path of unification, unconditional love, and peace. Eating less-altered food is one step we can take.
The closer to nature our foods are, the closer to nature we become, and our consciousness is inspired to evolve. Recognizing that our actions are not separate from our feelings is also an important step to helping us heal and understand the subtle messages in life, a life connected from within.
Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same time the creation of a healthier habitat. Your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth are rarely so much in your own hands as when you sit down to eat.”
—John Robbins
Why should I eat organic food?
The term “organic” refers to the way agricultural products are grown and processed. The USDA requires that a certain set of criteria be met and maintained for products to be labeled as organic.
For example, organic crops must be grown in soil where no chemicals, herbicides, pesticides, or other prohibited substances have been applied to the land during the previous three years. Organic farmers are not allowed to use synthetic pesticides, bioengineered genes (GMOs), petroleum-based fertilizers, or sewage sludge-based fertilizers.
Irradiation is the application of ionizing radiation to food designed to improve the safety and extend shelf life by reducing or eliminating microorganisms and insects.
The World Health Organization has declared irradiated food safe to eat. The agricultural industry likes the process because it extends the average shelf life of a food product to two or three months, or even to an unbelievable six or seven months. However, scientists are also discovering there are serious issues with irradiating food. Animals show an increased risk of cancer and many nutrients are diminished or destroyed in the process.
The average consumer doesn’t know that this is going on, let alone the dangers of ingesting foods that have been irradiated. How can we live a healthy life eating poisonous, toxic, irradiated food that has been treated with pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides during its journey from garden to the table?
Due to their less-developed immune and nervous systems, children and unborn children are most vulnerable to pesticide, fungicide, and herbicide exposure.
Early exposure can cause developmental delays, behavioral disorders, and motor dysfunction. Pregnant women are also more vulnerable to these toxins, due to the additional stress that pesticides place upon their already taxed organs. Pesticides can be passed from mother to child in the womb, as well as through breast milk. As Russell L. Blaylock revealed in his book Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills, some exposures can cause delayed effects on the nervous system, even years after the initial exposure.
To consciously choose to eat organic all the time takes practice and education.
To make a true change, it is important to know why we should eat organic food. We need to understand, for example, that supporting the market for conventionally grown foods has an impact on the world, particularly on our health and the health of our children. This type of farming and food production can also have a dangerous impact on the health of farmers and their children, and on a wider scale, it will also affect the health of Mother Earth’s rivers and oceans, and the health of all living creatures.
