Is the food we eat safe?

Kerala imports more than 80 % of the vegetables from other States, creating jobs for others. What we get is vegetable   infested with pesticide which contains poison more than the human body can handle. You may remember there are few occasions in last years   Saudi Arabia banned the curry leaves exported from Kochi which was coming from Andhra and Tamil Nadu. The reason was that it contains more insecticide than the allowed limit. The poison content in vegetables leads to frequent illness and high rate of diseases like diabetes, kidney failures, cancer etc. Kerala is the world capital of diabetes now.  Moreover research has shown vegetable we buy from supermarket  loses up to 57%  of nutrients on its ways  from the farm to kitchen but the pesticides won't deplete that fast.   It is high time that we have to do something to change our life style.  We are left with a choice: our life or our present lifestyle?

When we buy these imported cheap vegetables, we pay for one we get two free: organ failure like kidney, pancreas and frequent illness, diabetes , cancer etc. Buy one get two free.

What we can do is grow a few easily growing vegetables in your backyard or in buckets. We are blessed with a climate where we don't have to wait for sunlight or hot weather to grow some vegetables like Europe or North America.  Make use of the resources that are freely available.

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Is American food safe?

Most of us think that the vegetable we get in North America is pesticide free. Is it true?

We all got a natural tendency to go for cheap things. It is the same with food too. When we go for cheapness we have to compromise on quality.  When a farmer pays approximately $10 per hour as minimum wage for a worker, who works in the farm; how can you expect vegetable to be cheap. The farmer has to use some pesticides, hormones, fungicides etc to safeguard his crop  and do large-scale production in order to sell his produce cheaper in the market.

To quote Nikhil Swami Nathan in a recent article in "Psychology today" November 2012, published from US, " the U.S uses 22 percent of the world's pesticides to produce 4 percent of world's agricultural output."  The EPA (Environment Protection Agency) sets safe levels.  "in reality we are exposed to multiple pesticide residue at one time. They lower IQ in kids and may cause ADHD"

There is an increasing percentage of people in U S getting allergic to many foods like, milk, wheat, peanut, eggs, gluten etc. There is an increase in diabetes, cancer etc. Why? Why the second generation of immigrants from India  to US has more allergy than their parents. Why the immigrants from  India  has more allergy than their parents living in India. We changed our bio chemistry by eating more processed food and pesticide infested food.

Eat food that is natural, not processed. Eat food that is organic, not pesticide infested. Eat super foods that require less care to grow and use fewer pesticides to grow.   Eat food that is cooked in a simple way not complex way. Eat food that is not baked but cooked in water (not oil cooked or fried) or steam. Baking  or cooking at high temperature depletes the vitamins.

Michelle Obama with students in white house garden

In his speech in TED,  Dr.Dean Ornish, the author and prof of Medicine UCSF, tells that American diet and lifestyle is globalizing illness.  To quote " countries are beginning to eat like us, live like us and die like us". On a global level people are blindly following the junk food  lifestyle in US  that many of the  Americans don't like.

After observing the falling quality of food we eat , many farmers, scientists, and politicians are trying to educate people to grow back yard veggies. Many farmers changed to organic farming. Michelle Obama the first lady of US started her own garden in white house. She inspires others to do gardening. Please remember she was not a gardener before. She acquired  the skill to teach others. That is called leadership. See what she is doing to improve the lives of or people.

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If you want to live a healthy and happy life change your lifestyle today. If you want organic food, grow at your back yard.  You are the master of your health and destiny.

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