how to go on a fruit diet


how to go on a fruit diet

i have a passion for produce - so can somebodydo me a favor and point me toward the good stuff? hey everyone, laci green here for dnews. overthe past 5 years or so you may have noticed the organic produce section slowly gettingbigger and bigger. organic basically means that the produce was grown old-school style.they aren’t using fertilizers to control weeds or pesticides to ward off insects - theyuse natural (non-chemical) means that promote water and soil conservation while creatingless pollution. conventional methods use all that stuff and thus are able to grow a lotmore food a lot more quickly. while organic and conventional produce look pretty muchthe same, organic is often more expensive.


so...the question is….what are you payingfor and is it worth the dollas? at the end of the day, the answer to thatquestion comes down to personal priorities and budget, but here’s a rundown of whatthe studies say. a controversial study that came out of stanford in 2012 found that therewas no significant nutritional difference between organic and conventional produce.the scientists hand-selected 237 studies to analyze and found a few key outcomes: (1)no difference in vitamin, protein, or fat content, (2) no evidence of health risks withconventional produce, but (3) conventional produce has a 30% increased risk of pesticidecontamination. they also found that children who eat conventional produce have more pesticideresidues in their pee and exposure to higher


levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. thestudy was widely criticized by the scientific community for using faulty methods and leavingseveral really important studies about nutritional content out of their analysis. fast forward to 2014, and the british journalof nutrition has just released the largest international analysis ever, covering 343studies on organic produce. their findings tell a slightly different story. the researchersfound that organic produce is more nutritious -- and that it contains up to 70% more antioxidantsthan conventionally grown produce. they found that chemical fertilizers, which allow vegetablesto grow bigger and faster with little effort, don’t allow for proportional antioxidantdevelopment - so even though the veggies are


bigger, the health benefits are not the same.antioxidants are developed as the vegetable fights to survive and grow, so if they’reprotected by chemicals, you get a different result. the review also found that conventionalproduce has more pesticides (duh), and up to 48% more exposure to the toxic metal cadmium. i’ve done a lot of personal research onthis topic and it seems to me that organic has lots of health benefits and the widespreaduse of antibiotics, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers is very questionable. but conventionalproduce is still much better than no produce


how to go on a fruit diet,at all and you’re not on the fast trackto death by eating it. if you’re on a budget and need to be choosy, prioritize the fruitsand veggies where you eat the skin. apples


are a big one, strawberries, grapes, tomatoes,and so forth. let me know what you think about eating organic down below and i’ll see yousoon with more science updates!


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