Top Ten Reasons to Eat Organic

My Yoga Online - Shopping and eating organic foods and products promote sustainability and offer a great number of healthy living benefits compared to traditional consumer products. Enjoy this new nutrition article, Top Ten Reasons to Eat Organic, by Joan Ullyett BA, RHN and learn why eating organic makes sense for you, your family, and your community.

Reason 1 – Organic food is healthier & safer.
60% of herbicides, 90% of fungicides and 30% of insecticides that are commonly used in non-organic farming are endocrine disruptors, carcinogens and/or xenoestrogens. Non-organic farm workers have unusually high rates of multiple myeloma (a cancer of the immune system), stomach, prostate and testicular cancer. None of these chemicals are used in organic farming.

Reason 2 – Organic food contains more nutrients.
A study done by the Journal of American Nutrition revealed that organic food contains from 10-250% more vitamins and minerals than non-organic food. In 2001 the American Chemical Society reported that organic oranges contained up to 30% more vitamin C than non-organic oranges, even though they are half the size.

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Mercury Fillings - The Enemy Within

My Yoga Online has a new article by Joan Ullyett BA, RHN, Mercury Fillings-The Enemy Within. This healthy living article looks at the history of mercury filling in the dentistry industry and addresses the potential issues for those who have or considering to have mercury fillings.



At some point in our lives, usually starting in childhood, many of us developed cavities in our teeth that needed to be filled. As children we naturally trusted that our parents knew best when they sent us to the dentist to have our cavities taken care of, and our parents in turn trusted that the dentist was doing what was right and necessary to maintain our dental health. The fact that the fillings, known as mercury amalgam, were comprised of 50% mercury, a potent neurotoxin, never seemed to be an issue.

The fillings were safe, inquiring parents were told, in their amalgam state, that is combined with copper, tin and silver. Curiously, a poison when outside our mouths, so much so that the dentist would not even touch the amalgam with his or her own gloved hands and disposed of it as hazardous waste, yet completely safe and virtually inert when in our mouths. Or so we were told…

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