Health & Fitness
What Will Happen When A Family Eats Only Organic Foods For Two Weeks?
If it can be proven that conventional food changes your body in a negative manner, you may be more inclined to spend that extra money.
Not too long ago, all food was organic. Herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, plant regulators, GMOs and chemical fertilizers have not been around for all that long.
We can all pretty much agree that conventional foods grown with chemicals can be much cheaper than organic foods.
What we can’t all agree on is whether or not organic food is worth the extra money that it costs.
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If it can be proven that conventional food changes your body in a negative manner, you may be more inclined to spend that extra money?
Coop is a wholesale food distributor in Switzerland. Coop commissioned the Swedish Environmental Research Institute IVL to learn more about what happens to the body when people switch from eating non-organic to organic food. To test this out, they chose a family with three children who rarely eat organic food.
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For one week, the whole family had to eat conventional, non-organically grown foods for all of their meals. Urine samples were taken from each member of the family throughout the course of the study.
Researchers analyzed the pesticides that were present in the urine and found that the family was consuming insecticides, fungicides and plant growth regulators.
“We know very little about the long-term effects of eating food treated with pesticides, especially if you consider the chemicals can be much more harmful when combined together than they are on their own,” the study’s co-author Jorgen Magner stated.
For the next two weeks, all of the family’s food was swapped with organic products.
Their personal hygiene products and detergents were also swapped with organic ones, and the family was asked to not purchase new clothing or bedding.
The result was that the pesticides in their bodies were reduced significantly or not detectable at all.
But what impact would this have on long term health? That question is still unanswered.
The next step should be to study two groups, one who ate only conventional food for years and the other only organic. That would be an interesting study.