Love to gamble? Then forget Vegas and head to your local supermarket, where the buy-in is cheap and the stakes are high.
Inexpensive non-organic meats are so loaded with potentially deadly germs that you’re taking your life into your own hands every time you bite into a pork chop or a chicken cutlet.
One new study out of Stanford finds that non-organic meats not only contain more drug-resistant bacteria, but they’re also a third more likely to contain at least three different types of these microscopic monsters than organic meats.
Sounds to me like big news, right? So what’s the headline out of this one? I’m sure you’ve seen some version of it by now — here’s the one that ran in big letters on Stanford’s Web site:
“Little evidence of health benefits from organic foods, Stanford study finds.”
Huh??? You have to wonder if these people read their own study, because along with finding a much lower risk of drug-resistant superbugs in organic meats, the study also found that organic fruits and veggies contain much lower levels of pesticides.
That adds up to HUGE evidence of health benefits from organic foods… yet because the look at close to 250 studies found that many organic foods have the same nutrition levels as non-organics, they’re calling it a tie.
But even that part just ain’t so.
I don’t know how they cherry-picked the studies they used in this analysis, but the ones I’ve seen over the years have been consistent and crystal clear: Organic meats have higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids and other essentials, while organic fruits and vegetables have more antioxidants and other vitamins.
But that’s just the icing on the cake. The fact that you don’t have to char your meats to a crisp to make sure all the potentially deadly germs are killed is a much bigger plus, in my book. And while I’m not going to panic over a little pesticide exposure here and there, keeping your exposure down when you can is definitely going to be better for you in the long run.
http://douglassreport.com/2012/09/24/Why-you-should-pay-more-for-your-food/
