{"id":361,"date":"2007-08-02T20:45:52","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T20:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drpepi.com\/health-tips2\/?p=361"},"modified":"2014-07-23T11:45:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T19:45:12","slug":"organic-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drpepi.com\/health-tips\/nutrition\/organic-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic Food"},"content":{"rendered":" <p class=\"leadin\">Patients often ask me this question:\u00a0 \u201cShould I buy organic food?\u201dAs a teacher of mine once said, \u201cWould it be okay to make a great meal and spray a little RAID on it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From the United States Environmental Protection Agency:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Laboratory studies show that pesticides can cause health problems, such as birth defects, nerve damage, cancer, and other effects that might occur over a long period of time <a class=\"dcbf\" href=\"http:\/\/ourmedia.org\/rational-rose-%eb%8b%a4%ec%9a%b4%eb%a1%9c%eb%93%9c\/\">rational rose \ub2e4\uc6b4\ub85c\ub4dc<\/a>. Some pesticides also pose unique health risks to children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/pesticides\/food\/pest.htm\">Click here for more information from the United States Environmental Protection Agency <a class=\"dcbf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mecadaq.com\/%eb%a7%a5%ed%94%84%eb%a1%9c%ea%b7%b8%eb%9e%a8-%eb%8b%a4%ec%9a%b4%eb%a1%9c%eb%93%9c\/\">\ub9e5\ud504\ub85c\uadf8\ub7a8 \ub2e4\uc6b4\ub85c\ub4dc<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pesticides used on food include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Insecticides to control insects<\/li>\n<li>Rodenticides to control rodents<\/li>\n<li>Herbicides to control weeds<\/li>\n<li>Fungicides to control mold and fungus<\/li>\n<li>Antimicrobials to control bacteria<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Best of all, organic food usually tastes better <a class=\"dcbf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectum.cnm.com.pt\/?p=11040\">\ubbf8\uc4f0\ube44\uc2dc plc \uc18c\ud504\ud2b8\uc6e8\uc5b4<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Read all my <a href=\"\/health-tips\/c\/nutrition\/\">nutrition tips<\/a> to find out how easy it is to keep yourself healthy, and how to get healthier faster <a class=\"dcbf\" href=\"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2020\/02\/ms-access-%eb%ac%b4%eb%a3%8c-%eb%8b%a4%ec%9a%b4%eb%a1%9c%eb%93%9c\/\">ms access \ubb34\ub8cc \ub2e4\uc6b4\ub85c\ub4dc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"signout\">To your long healthy life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients often ask me this question:\u00a0 \u201cShould I buy organic food?\u201dAs a teacher of mine once said, \u201cWould it be okay to make a great meal and spray a little RAID on it?\u201d From the United States Environmental Protection Agency: &#8220;Laboratory studies show that pesticides can cause health problems, such as birth defects, nerve damage, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[394,6,503,7,502,501],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drpepi.com\/health-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drpepi.com\/health-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drpepi.com\/health-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drpepi.com\/health-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drpepi.com\/health-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.drpepi.com\/health-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"http:\/\/www.drpepi.com\/health-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drpepi.com\/health-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drpepi.com\/health-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drpepi.com\/health-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}