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Health Benefits of Eating Organic: Are They Real?Why should you eat organic? And what are the health benefits of eating organic? Organically produced food must be
produced according to regulations. Well, no synthetic pesticides are permitted. The farm must have a buffer zone in place to deal with possible contamination from outside the farm. And the farmer works with the land and soil to ensure it has a high nutrient content. Not stripping the soil of life. High nutrient soil produces healthy plants that are themselves high in nutrients. That's your first health benefit: high nutrient content of produce. The method of farming is sustainable. That means it could go on year after year and still be a producing farm. It doesn't harm the environment. There is no risk of pesticide exposure if you live near an organic farm. Can you say that about conventional farms? The livestock raised must be fed organically grown feed. So, they eat well and are healthy as a result.
Hormones aren't used
on the animals. And they can not be given non-medicinal
antibiotics. Organic production doesn't allow
genetically modified organisms (gmo). These foods must have organic ingredients. And the allowable additives are limited. Just remember though that they would still be processed. Fresh is always better for you. So, when you look at what is absent in organic food... - no pesticides You can see that your 
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Ok. So what does that mean to you?