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What You Should Know About the Food Your Child Eats

 

 

 

  

What You Should Know About The Food Your Child Eats

What do YOU know about the food your child eats?

It is imperative that you are aware of what is being consumed by your child. Just because it looks good doesn’t mean that it is good.

What is in the food that you can’t see and haven’t been told about?

Governments have standards to determine “safe amounts” of pesticide residues in foods.  That amount is determined by the acceptable percentage of a single pesticide that an adult can consume without developing complications.  However, those standards, as questionable as they might be even for adults, are absolutely meaningless for children. 

They do not allow for some fundamental factors:

1. Children have smaller body weights.
2. Their growing bodies are more sensitive and easily damaged.
3. Proportionally, they consume significantly higher amounts of fruits and vegetables than adults.
4. The cumulative effects of the multiple sprays present on most conventional produce is not calculated or considered.

In a press release from 1998, the Environmental Working Group in Washington D.C. estimated that:

“Every day, nine out of ten children between the age of 6 months and 5 years are exposed to combinations of 13 different neurotoxic insecticides in the food they eat.  While the amounts consumed rarely cause acute illness, these ‘organophosphate’ insecticides (OPs) have the potential to cause long term damage to the brain and the nervous system, which are rapidly growing and extremely vulnerable to injury during foetal development, infancy and early childhood.”

The same report also stated that:

“For infants six to twelve months of age, commercial baby food is the dominant source of unsafe levels of OP insecticides.  OPs in baby food apple juice, pears, applesauce, and peaches expose about 77,000 infants each day, to unsafe levels of OP insecticides.”

It goes on:

“One out of every four times a child age five or under eats a peach, he or she is exposed to an unsafe level of OP insecticides.”

“A small but worrisome percentage of these fruits (1.5 to 2 percent of the apples, grapes and pears, and 15 percent of the peaches) are so contaminated with OPs that the average 25 pound one year old eating just two grapes, or three bites of an apple, pear, or peach (10 grams of each fruit) will exceed the EPA (ADULT) safe dose of OPS.” http://www.ewg.org/release/one-million-kids-day-exposed-unsafe-levels-toxic-pesticides-fruit-vegetables-and-baby-food

For the complete report, go to http://www.ewg.org/node/7879.

In its 1997 report, The Natural Resources Council included pesticides in the five worst environmental threats to children’s health along with lead, air pollution, environmental tobacco smoke, and contamination of drinking water.

It also pointed out that, in the last 50 years, more than 75,000 new chemicals have been introduced into the environment.  Health experts are becoming increasingly concerned about the role chemicals may play in childhood diseases, many of which are on the rise.  Asthma rates, for example, tripled in the 1980s, and childhood cancer rates have increased by 10 percent over the last 20 years.

The US Department of Agriculture recently tested nearly 7,000 samples of fruits and vegetables.  The results showed that 65 percent of the samples contained pesticides with 65 different pesticides being detected.

 “It has long been known that pesticide exposure presents a health risk to infants and children. Food is one of the main sources of exposure.

“While many studies have measured levels of pesticides in various foodstuffs on grocery shelves and a few have looked at levels excreted from the body, little has been known about the level of pesticides found in the food that children actually consume. This study attempted to capture the pesticide levels of foods just as they were prepared and in the amounts eaten by the children.”

http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/pesticides-found-in-one-fifth-of-produce-kids-eat

The previous website gives a brief description of a study that was done investigating the pesticide levels of foods consumed by children. As its name suggests, it contains current information about important environmental health concerns that everyone should be aware of.

Organic food is THE alternative.   It is grown without the use of ANY pesticides or chemical fertilizers.  Organic meat is raised without the use of hormones, antibiotics, chemically-treated feed or any other chemical inputs. 

Organic food is not only good for you, it is also good for the environment in which you live and leave to your children.

What do you know about HOW to prepare that food?

What you feed your children is important, but how the food is prepared is equally as important. This article from Mercola.com tells you why you should never use a microwave to heat food and never in plastic. Glass, ceramic, and stainless steel are good alternatives to use for preparing and serving “real food from whole organic ingredients.”  

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