There’s a huge myth that’s trending in the world of healthy foods right now, and it could be affecting your health.
There seems to be a new food trend or diet fad that comes around every few years: Keto, Paleo, Vegan, Vegetarian, etc.
But the one I’m about to expose will leave you shocked…
The trend I’m talking about is organic food.
I’m not trying to scare you. All I want to do is make sure you’re properly educated on all things related to your health so that you can make the best decisions for this crucial aspect of your life.
And because there’s a huge gap when it comes to telling the whole story about organic foods, here are the shocking facts you need to know:
1. Organic food is NOT more nutritious than its counterpart…
You can hop online and find study after study revealing that there’s no true nutritional advantage to eating organic foods. Instead, it’s really all about the shelf life in most cases.
Even an organic vegetable can lose half of its nutritional value if it’s been in the grocery store for a week.
2. Organic food is NOT cleaner…
Despite the common belief that organic food is always healthier AND cleaner, that’s simply not true.
Organic foods need to be washed just as vigorously as high-yield farmed vegetables because both kinds are at risk of containing E. coli bacteria.
3. Organic farming has a negative impact on wildlife, too…
Yes, it’s true that organic farming doesn’t require pesticides and herbicides, and therefore it does NOT hurt the soil or wildlife in that respect.
However, in reality organic farming needs much more land than high-yield farming. Note that modern farming is responsible for saving roughly 15 million square miles of wildlife habitat.
4. Other facts about organic foods…
a) Many “experts” state that organic foods could save the world from hunger. But the massive amount of space needed to adopt organic food globally (roughly 10 million square miles of forest would need to be cut down) would mean there would actually be less food, and organic foods cost 3 times more to produce…
b) Organic farming uses fungicides, and there are 20 US Organic Standards-approved chemicals used in organic food production.
c) Organic food inspection isn’t always top notch. As with most things in life, the organic food certification process has different levels of rigor applied by different certifiers. And because some certifiers are less expensive to hire, they continue to get used in the inspection process.
So next time you feel like you’re doing your body a justice by eating organic, consider the curse of every trend… there are always ways to skew the numbers to make the product look better than its alternatives.
