The big ten
posted Monday, November 14, 2005 :: 5:03 AM
My husband and I went grocery shopping this weekend. I keep a little list in my purse, which I learned from Dr. Gittleman and my detox diet.
On it is the ten most sprayed (with pesticides, herbicides, and
fungicides) fruit and vegetable crops in the United States. When
one of these ten are on my shopping list, I always buy
organically-grown. If I need to buy conventionally grown to save some
money, I make sure it is not one of the big ten. Here is the list:
apples
apricots
celery
cherries
peaches
pears
potatoes
raspberries
spinach
strawberries
I
also avoid conventionally-grown cantaloupe from Mexico and grapes from
Chile. Those countries do not have a ban on DDT, and those fruits are
regularly sprayed with the stuff before being imported here.
Detox
update: I have lost 16 pounds since detoxing at the beginning of
September, and maintaining detox benefits in my diet since. My clothes
this winter are a size smaller than last winter, wooo hooo! Now I am
trying to slow the weight loss down a bit since I need to wait till
spring to go down another size.
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