How might organic food benefit your health?
Surveys suggest that more and more people are turning to organic food instead of food produced using conventional methods. It seems that many people are finding organic food increasingly more accessible; you can now buy organic food direct from the organic growers, order doorstep delivery, buy it from your supermarket, and even choose to eat it in restaurants. However, it has not just the question of accessibility which has made people chose to go organic, studies suggest that one of the main reasons cited for eating organic food is for health benefits. Read on to discover how organic food might benefit your health.
If you ask people about why they chose to eat organic food many will reply that they believe it to be more “natural” than food produced using conventional farming methods. In a world of BSC and genetically modified food, people are becoming increasingly aware of the way on which the food they eat is farmed and they are turning their attention to food that is free from certain types of food dangers.
In fact, organic food farming contains the following factors which many claim are beneficial to your health:
- To date organic food is on the whole unprocessed (which means no hidden sugar, fat, salt etc)
- Organic food is prohibited from using any seed or crop which has been genetically modified. This is proving to be an important factor for many people who find the unknown health risks involved with GM produce (which remains unlabelled and untested) to be undesirable.
- Organic farming is only permitted to use seven of the thousands of artificial additives on its produce which are used in conventional farming methods.
- There is no known case of BSC in any organic beef and none of the organic cattle are allowed to be fed on commercial food processing waste
- Organic food is pesticide free. This is important when you consider that the World Health Organisation estimates that annually between 3.5 and 5m people in the world suffer pesticide poisoning.
Purely Organic Farm Shop
At Purely Organic we stock an amazing range of organic food, including our award-
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Purely Organic, Deverill Trout Farm, Longbridge Deverill, Warminster, Wiltshire BA12 7DZ
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