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Is Organic Food Better For You?

With all the interest these days in organic foods, you might be wondering, is organic food better for you or not? Like anything else, there are people on both sides of the debate.  Finding definitive answers can be difficult, since there hasn’t been much in the way of long-term studies on USDA defined organic foods […]

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Benefits of Eating Organically

I read this the other day and thought it made some good points, so I got permission to publish here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anyone aware of the amount of chemicals included in highly processed food is aware of the importance and the benefits of organic foods in the first place. By the difference between organic and conventional food, we […]

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Defining Organic Food

If you’re looking for a better class of food, organic food usually fits the bill.  But you need some specific health food information, like how you define organic food. The USDA defines organic food like this: “Organic food is produced by farmers who emphasize the use of renewable resources and the conservation of soil and water to enhance […]

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Do You Buy Organic Foods?

Unless you’ve had your head stuck in the sand, you know we’re in a recession. Because of that economic slow down, it was expected by market researchers that there would be a slump in sales of organic foods. Turns out instead of a slow down in organic food sales, they actually increased by 15.8 percent in 2008, according to a survey done by the Lieberman Research Group for the Organic Trade Association (OTA).

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