BPAs- Brain Toxins For Lunch?

I was in the grocery store yesterday and overheard two moms commenting on which apples they liked best – one was definitely a Granny Smith girl, and the other (piling them up in her basket,) was more into Golden Delicious. The apples looked good, however, this particular grocery store doesn’t carry organic apples and so I wasn’t buying any. You may think that the odd apple surely won’t cause too much harm, and one can’t overlook the fact that organic apples are almost twice the price, but if you buying apples for your kids – beware!

One of the pesticides used in and on apples in called Chlorpyrifos, which is a neurotoxin, meaning that it affects the brain and nervous system. Children are way more susceptible to the adverse effects because they metabolize pesticides differently to adults, and because their bodies are obviously smaller. Testing done of a group of kids found that those with this pesticide in their blood were more likely to have ADHD and lower IQ’s.

That’s not the only pesticide that’s in an apple either. There are also 17 Honeybee Toxins, 7 Known/Probable Carcinogens, 19 Suspected Hormone Disruptors, 6 Developmental/Reproductive Toxins. So an organic apple might seem like a luxury that only few can afford, but non-organic apples come with a very heavy price-tag – not just to the environment, but to the health of your kids.

It’s also really important that you buy organic apple juice and applesauce – because they are the more concentrated versions of the fruit. For more details on all the foods that need to be purchased organic and why – including meat, fish and dairy, grab a copy of The Gorgeously Green Diet, which on sale now at Amazon.