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I’ve been asked many times if I had to choose between being allowed to eat everything organic but not be allowed to have food supplements, or be able to take unlimited supplementation but not be allowed to eat any organic food, which would I go for? I started this piece biased towards eating non organic and being able to take supplements. Here are 3 examples for me picking vitamins over organic food.
1. Science is showing some real benefits to getting wild salmon oil daily (How on earth am I going to do that? I like salmon but every day?)
2. Since the benefits of the active component of green tea are actually in the pulp who’s going to eat THAT every day?
3. To get the amount of sulfurophane in broccoli extract to offer cancer protection I’d have to eat at least 2 lbs of kale a week..raw..and I just can’t pull that off.
So those are just three examples of supplements that I take on a daily basis..I have many many more. My logic for taking supplements is also founded on the notion that:
1. Our soil continues to degrade every year with ongoing de-mineralization (even organic).
2. Our exposure to over 5000 environmental toxins every day (and the list is growing).
3. The weakening of our immune systems from a decline in proper digestive bacteria. (your going to be hearing more and more about the relationship between good bacteria on and in our bodies and our general health as time goes on..mark my words. If Dannon yogurt is calling itself a probiotic you know there’s something big going on).
So eating non-organic but able to get unlimited supplementation was where I was tending to go until I came across some interesting information on the green leafy vegetable kale that made me sit up. According to the Environmental Working Group's 2009 report Shopper's Guide to Pesticides, “kale is among the 12 foods on which pesticide residues have been most frequently found. Therefore, individuals wanting to avoid pesticide-associated health risks may want to avoid consumption of kale unless it is grown organically”. http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=dailytip&dbid=372
I am a HUGE consumer of Kale (more on that later) so this news meant I couldn’t in good conscience eat conventional kale. It’s actually full of pesticides. And if I had to choose between taking my companies supplements and eating organic kale, the supplements would have to go!
So rather than get stuck in an either or situation I’d choose to do both, (which is what I do now) eat organically as much as possible and take high quality food supplements. When it comes to leafy green vegetables, berries, peaches, lettuce, carrots, red meat, and the rest of the 12 foods on the list above I’ll definitely go organic AND I’ll want our wild Alaskan salmon oil (at least 3 grams or 6 soft gels a day, I’ll take our high EGCG green tea extract, our super coq10, our Aquamin™ food based calcium, vitamin D3, etc. To get a handy list of my favorite signature Edible Science products check out ediblescience.com and click on Top Sellers.
Just a bit more on Kale; to get a full appreciation for this plant go to: http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=38 and check it out. To me it’s the king of all veggies, and beats out even wheatgrass as the most nutrient dense and protective food around.
Which brings me around to our kale/carrot crystals. We will be offering another organic drinkable powder on our site ediblescience.com this month. So if you find it hard to juice or eat this incredible vegetable please look for it and click on it to learn more.
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