Getting Pregnant By Eating Organic Food: The Danger Of Genetically Modified Foods
Before I was trying to conceive, I wondered if the organic food industry was just a bunch of throwbacks from the sixties who were trying to convince the rest of us that the world was a dangerous contaminated place just so we'd buy their products. But the more I've read and researched, I realized that there are good reasons to buy organic.See also www.getpregnantover40.com for my entire series on fertility foods and my fertile kitchen
I've heard differing reports on whether or not organically grown foods really have more nutritional value. Some say organic foods have up to 30% more nutrients and others say that it hasn't been proven. Now I must confess, while I was on my natural journey to pregnancy, I did not always eat organically grown foods. Sometimes I did, sometimes I didn't. I did the best I could at the time. It's time consuming to run to the regular supermarket for some items and to the health food store for others. It can also be more expensive to buy organic. For most people, just adding more fruits and vegetable to their diet would be a major improvement whether they're organic or not. But if you can, it makes sense to try to eliminate as many toxins from your diet as possible by going the organic route. Many of the pestides used can mimic estrogens which throw your hormones out of whack.
Another thing to watch out for is genetically modified foods. There have been a number of studies now that indicate GM foods have caused problems in animals. Read more:
Dr. Smith writes:
“GM foods are particularly dangerous for pregnant moms and children. After GM soy was fed to female rats, most of their babies died—compared to 10 percent deaths among controls fed natural soy.2 GM-fed babies were smaller, and possibly infertile.3
Testicles of rats fed GM soy changed from the normal pink to dark blue.4 Mice fed GM soy also had altered young sperm.5
Embryos of GM soy-fed parent mice had changed DNA.6 And mice fed GM corn had fewer, and smaller, babies.7
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In Haryana, India, most buffalo that ate GM cottonseed had reproductive complications such as premature deliveries, abortions, and infertility; many calves died.
About two-dozen US farmers said thousands of pigs became sterile from certain GM corn varieties. Some had false pregnancies; others gave birth to bags of water. Cows and bulls also became infertile.8
In the US, incidence of low birth weight babies, infertility, and infant mortality are all escalating.”
from examiner.com