Organic Food Builds Strong Future Generations
It's comforting to imagine unborn babies protected and safe in the womb, but research by the Environmental Working Group shows that chemicals, pesticides in food and other pollutants cross the placenta.
These pesticides and other toxins can create health risks for babies. Many studies link pesticides to low birth weight, birth defects, neurological and behavioral problems, disrupted hormone function, autism and cancer.
You may hear, "Organic food isn't more nutritious - don't waste your money." However, The Soil Association notes that an organic diet increases consumption of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and essential fatty acids.
Health and safety should not be confused with nutrition. While most research can't prove, beyond a doubt that organic food is more nutritious, it is much safer, which may translate to a healthier body, able to absorb healthy nutrients.
Organic Food is Becoming Affordable
Many people complain that organic food is too expensive. Organic food can cost more than conventional foods. However, money talks. When people continually purchase organic food it shows consumer support for organics and then companies will try to meet that demand with better, more competitive prices.
The only way to show the government and businesses that people care about quality, affordable organics is to buy quality organics. Your organic purchases now make a difference in the long run. Luckily, for now, organics are becoming more affordable. Plus, there are plenty of ways to save money on organic food, for example, you can use organic in-season produce.
Organic Food Keeps Water Clean:
Pesticides and chemicals don't belong in drinking water, lakes or oceans, but right now most of the water on earth is at risk. Surface water runoff from non-organic farms and other non-organic food operations can deposit pesticides into lakes, rivers, and reservoirs.
Organic Food Helps to Protect Animals on Earth :
Wild animals, fish and birds depend upon healthy plants, streams, rivers and lakes in their habitat. When pesticides infiltrate animal habitats many creatures suffer.
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Are you looking to lose weight and are tired of the “fad diets”?
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How much do you know about the benefits of organic food, as well as where to find it and what to eat?
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Just like you, I’m passionate about healthy eating and living a vibrant, energetic lifestyle. Unfortunately, today’s world is filled with processed food, unhealthy fast food, and quick snacks that fill us with
preservatives and harmful chemicals.
Confounding the conversation are recent reports that organic foods are not nutritionally different from non-organic. A recent meta-analysis by Stanford University has received widespread media coverage, and with few exceptions, conventional media outlets have used it to cast doubt on the value of an organic diet. The New York Times for example, declared "Stanford Scientists Cast Doubt on Advantages of Organic Meat and Produce," and Fox News' headline claimed "organic food may not be worth the money.
In a nutshell, the meta-analysis, which looked at reports comparing organically and conventionally grown food, did find that organic foods are safer, and probably healthier than conventional foods—if you are of the conviction that ingesting fewer toxins is healthier and safer for you. While I believe organic foods grown in healthy soils can be more nutritious than their conventional counterparts grown in depleted soils with synthetic chemicals, a major benefit of organically grown foods really is the reduction in your toxic load.
Organic India's goal is to help you and your family navigate around these unhealthy options and begin to understand more fully how you can make wise, healthy choices concerning your food.
It’s absolutely possible to eat healthy and feel better in the process.
One of the aspects to today’s modern day world you may not be aware of is how many illnesses and disease are linked simply to unhealthy diets.
ORGANIC HEALTHY FOOD BENEFITS :
Eating organic foods may confer additional health benefits compared to eating non-organic food. it's not yet clear whether organic foods are unilaterally more nutritious than non-organic foods, they do contain less pesticides and food additives. Compared to organic food crops, conventionally-grown crops contain significantly more pesticide residues, which, depending on the type of pesticide and your level of exposure, may harm health. Organic foods,are also less processed than non-organic foods, meaning they contain less artificial coloring, flavorings, sweeteners, and preservatives, some of which are thought of as harmful to your health.
Organic Whole Husk Psyllium
Our psyllium is USDA certified organic. This means that from the time the seeds are planted until the moment you purchase the final product, you have the assurance that our psyllium is grown without pesticides, herbicides or chemical fertilizers, contains no additives or sweeteners and is of the highest quality available.
In whole husk form, derived from the seeds of the herbPlantago ovata, psyllium husks are a rich source of soluble fiber. They naturally promote healthy elimination and regularity while supporting the gastrointestinal system.
IS ORGANIC FOOD Better For US
Making a commitment to healthy eating is a great start towards a healthier life. Beyond eating more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and good fats, however, there is the question of food safety, nutrition, and sustainability. How foods are grown or raised can impact both your health and the environment. This brings up the questions: What is the difference between organic foods and conventionally grown foods? Is “organic” always best?
Organic crops must be grown in safe soil, have no modifications, and must remain separate from conventional products. Farmers are not allowed to use synthetic pesticides, bio engineered genes (GMOs), petroleum-based fertilizers, and sewage sludge-based fertilizers.
Organic livestock must have access to the outdoors and be given organic feed. They may not be given antibiotics, growth hormones, or any animal-by-products.
The evidence is unclear. Some studies suggest that, on average, organically grown fruits and vegetables may contain slightly higher levels of vitamin C, trace minerals, and antioxidant nutrients than conventionally grown produce. However, other studies have found no nutritional differences between organic and non-organic foods.
How to Organic Foods are Beneficial for YOU :
Organic foods provide a variety of benefits. Some studies show that organic foods have more beneficial nutrients, such as antioxidants, than their conventionally grown counterparts. In addition, people with allergies to foods, chemicals, or preservatives often find their symptoms lessen or go away when they eat only organic foods. In addition:
- Organic food is often fresher :- Fresh food tastes better. Organic food is usually fresher when eaten because it doesn’t contain preservatives that make it last longer. Organic produce is often (but not always, so watch where it is from) produced on smaller farms near where it is sold.
- Organic farming is better for the environment :- Organic farming practices reduce pollution (air, water, soil), conserve water, reduce soil erosion, increase soil fertility, and use less energy. In addition, organic farming is better for birds and small animals as chemical pesticides can make it harder for creatures to reproduce and can even kill them. Farming without pesticides is also better for the people who harvest our food.
- Organically raised animals are NOT given antibiotics, growth hormones, or fed animal byproducts. The use of antibiotics in conventional meat production helps create antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. This means that when someone gets sick from these strains they will be less responsive to antibiotic treatment. Not feeding animal byproducts to other animals reduces the risk of mad cow disease . In addition, the animals are given more space to move around and access to the outdoors, both of which help to keep the animals healthy. The more crowded the conditions, the more likely an animal is to get sick.
- Yes, organic foods generally costs more. But so they should: organic farmers – if they are truly organic – are husbanding the soil and the environment. And this costs more than running a mainstream farm. Mainstream, non-organic farmers are taking more from the soil than they give back – it is impossible to sustain this mode of agriculture. Conventional foods are subsidized by the environment so their cost does not reflect the true cost of their production: fuel, transport costs and subsidies, chemical regulation and testing, health and downstream social problems and other externalities. Mainstream agriculture has a higher ecological footprint than does organic agriculture. In the long-term, an organic approach to agriculture is the only sustainable mode of food production.
Organic farmers have most of the costs of mainstream farmers, but they also have the additional costs of replenishing and maintaining the soils so that each year's crops come out of soils that are no more depleted than the soils that produced the previous crop. We consumers should feel privileged to be able to pay our farmers for this replenishment, restorative and rejuvenative husbandry.
organic soil quality is rich and cropping can be sustained, preventing soil erosion; rainwater is absorbed rather than running off.
Both the water that runs off and the water that is absorbed are free of pesticides and artificial fertilizers that contaminate downstream and underground water storage. More water is absorbed in soils with high organic content and more water is held for longer in soils with higher organic content. This will become increasingly important with climate change to absorb rainfall and prevent damaging floods, to prevent desiccation of soils (allowing more vegetation to grow and cool the surface.
Because they are grown in rich organic soils, with abundant bacterial, worm, insect and fungal activity and stable moisture levels, the plants and animals growing healthier and – when the time comes – better food for predators ... like us. In the absence of pesticides organically-grown plants produce more compounds to protect themselves from fungal and other infections; some of these compounds also have health-giving properties for humans. These compounds are present in very small quantities, are rarely tested for, and their effects on humans are larely unknown. What we do know is that these compounds – which were part of our evolutionary diet and, also, present in the air our ancestors breathed – are disappearing from our diet as a result of industrial farming techniques combined with a market focus on shape, size and sweetness as selection criteria.
Fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides. Artificial fertilizers are inimical to soil microbes. Many other chemicals are implicated in cancer, birth defects, nerve damage and mutations. They also can accumulate to toxic levels as they move up the food chain. Humans are the only species that deliberately poisons its food and there is far less chance of such poisons in the food chain from an organic grower to you, the consumer.
Organic farms are relatively labour intensive (using the skill, judgement, time, knowledge as well as the physical power of workers) rather than petroleum intensive. Mainstream farms also use fertilizers that have heavy production and transport costs and are generally produced or refined with high fossil fuel inputs
Organic farms have a wider range of plant and animal species than monoculture farms. Monocultural farms are also more vulnerable to pests.
Farm workers in monocultural agriculture have a much greater risk of cancers. In third world countries the same risks are magnified as control mechanisms are weak and there are children, illiterate people and farmers desperate to squeeze production out the soil without regard to future seasons.
Organic farmers are renowned for their devotion to producing heritage varieties of fruit and vegetables.
Although some people place a large store on organic foods having a more appealing flavour, improved flavour is not necessarily a characteristic of organic food. Organic foods may have a stronger flavour as they will have grown more slowly on a fuller range of nutrients, but there is no reason why that should necessarily make them more palatable to Homo sapiens. As organic foods are growing in soils closer to those under which they evolved and under husbandry practices that leave them more free to be themselves, their flavour may actually be less appealing to humans.Don't be disappointed if you can't detect a more favoured flavour in your organic foods. Modern plant varieties have often been selected with flavour as a main criterion. But modern mass market taste is for sweetness and blandness; a more refined palate will look for a distinctive flavour and will not be seduced by sweetness.
Like taste and flavour, the appearance of organic fresh foods may stand in contrast to foods from the supermarket chains. Larger size, uniformity and absence of blemishes are features that wholesalers and retailers can select for at wholesale markets. This means that what reaches the shops is often only those deemed the most attractive grades of foods, the others having been sold for processing, animal feed, sent to landfill or left to rot on the farms. These supermarket-preferred grades have no relation to nutritional quality and are determined solely on external appearance. Organic retailers are less critical of superficial, cosmetic differences from the commercial ideal, so what they sell will not always look as pretty. Superficial appeal is often achieved by more spraying, by addition of colouring agents (in the case of eggs and oranges) and by selective breeding for appearance. Supermarkets stock only the mainstream varieties of, say, apples and pears, whereas organic growers and sellers delight in growing and selling heritage varieties, even when these have been superseded in the supermarkets. Organic retailers will accept a larger range of skill blemishes than will supermarkets. Often these skin blemishes (especially in the case of apricots and russeted apples) point to a much tastier fruit. Organic foods have a smaller market than the mainstream and organic fruit and vegetables may remain on the shelves longer than in the supermarkets who often dump fruit every few days; supermarket foods may, therefore, be fresher. They may, on the other hand, just look fresher as their fresh appearance could have been achieved by storing the fruit and vegetables in gases and specially-developed plastic wraps that retard the natural ageing processes, while also allowing unnatural chemicals to permeate the food plants.
Certification costs organic producers, but it is your best single guarantee that the foods you purchase are organic
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By buying ORGANIC INDIA Tulsi Teas and herbal supplements, you not only enjoy premium quality, you also participate in and empower a holistic mission that supports the environment, promotes sustainable organic agriculture and protects the bio-diversity of the Earth, while supporting thousands of marginal farmers and tribal communities in rural India.
The organic industry can be proud of its achievements in putting animal welfare, environmental protection, tractability and food quality at the heart of the farming and food agenda.
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The organic industry can be proud of its achievements in putting animal welfare, environmental protection, tractability and food quality at the heart of the farming and food agenda.
“The whole man is most supported by empowering his clarity, his balance, his bravery, his wisdom, his masculinity - his true power.”
In this newsletter, Prashanti de Jager shares profound perennial wisdom that has benefited men since millennia to live and evolve skillfully in balance and harmony. According to profound perennial wisdom traditions, there are three fundamental qualities of Nature that manifest at all levels, from quasars to ecosytems to the nature of men. These principles are preservation/equilibrium (sattva) creation/kinetics (rajas) and destruction/inertia (tamas). E
ssentially, all three are equal in importance and power, and keeping them in their right place is fundamental to living skillfully and evolving individually and collectively.
What this effectively means, is that the balance and harmony of these principles in the body mind and spirit, result in an inner balance and an abiding sense of wellbeing, capable of facing the stresses of daily life with equanimity, maintaining harmonious relationships, making decisions with clarity of mind and intention, empowered by well functioning systems within the body, and attuned senses that perceive the world clearly. The sattvic man, who has the controlled tamas of his physicality, the sharp tool of rajas in the sensory abilities by which he interacts, and the clear potent balanced sattva filled mind, creates
a world of unity and sustainability in an active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a more successful existence.
Traditionally a sattvic diet that promotes true wellness for a man in harmony within himself and the world he lives in, is one that includes supportive herbs, pure water, fresh organic local seasonal fruits and vegetables, and nourishing sensory impressions, as well as the balance of relaxation and exercise.
For millennia and beyond, balancing the whole man’s power has been intricately woven with the robust intelligence of the sattva promoting herbs, including Tulsi (Holy Basil), Arjuna, Triphala, Ashwagandha, Shatavri, andBrahmi.
I do not mention these herbs because they are the ones ORGANIC INDIA biodynamically grows or sustainably wildcrafts, but rather, ORGANIC INDIA provides them to the world as potent vehicles of evolving consciousness. In fact, one of the main words for herbs in the ancient world is Aushadhi, meaning "carrier of light," or "vehicle of consciousness." The socially and environmentally responsible methods used to ensure the quality of these herbs, reflects the commitment to sharing the wisdom these vehicles of consciousness carry.
When asked which is the main Ayurvedic herb for men, most herbal cognoscenti would immediately answer Ashwagandha. Ashwagandha is one of the best Medhya herbs, the herbs that promote a balanced and profound intellect. By supporting physical and energetic masculinity, deep core vitality, and sattvic wisdom, Ashwagandha is indeed a great herb to support the whole man!
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It is widely agreed that the best herbs to use for overall wellness are the anti-stress immunocompetence enhancing adaptogens, according to experts from around the world, throughout time and across all traditions and lineages. Though the concept is thousands of years old, western bioscience also has recently discovered adaptogens, known in Ayurveda as the rasayanas and in traditional Chinese medicine as the Superior Herbs.
In 1947, while working on a molecular compound found to stimulate nonspecific resistance of organisms, the Russian scientist Lazarev coined the word "adaptogen.1" He basically defines "adaptogen" as an agent which allows an organism to counteract any adverse physical, chemical or biological stressor by generating non specific resistance and thus becoming "adapted" to a diversity demands imposed on it.2 This definition was fine tuned two decades later at the dawn of "adaptogen awareness."
An adaptogen:
- Produces a nonspecific response; for instance, an increase in the power of resistance against multiple (physical, chemical or biological) stressors
- Has a normalizing influence, irrespective of the direction of change from physiological norms caused by the stressor. (This is the principle of a medicinal substance that is “two-directional”)
- Is innocuous and does not influence normal body functions more than required.
While the paper declaring the above definition was being published, scientists in India, especially Dr Narendra Singh of the King George Medical College in Lucknow, were confirming what thousands of years of traditional Ayurvedic Medicine4 told them: Ashwagandha and Tulsi specifically are two of the premier adaptogens known, and that the Rasayanas of Ayurveda in general are all adaptogens5.
Amongst the most researched and esteemed anti-stress immuno-enhancing adaptogens are:
- Amalaki (Emblica officinalis)
- Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera)
- Eleuthero (Eleutherococcus senticosus)
- Ginseng (Panax ginseng)
- Guduchi (Tinospora cordifolia)
- Haritaki (Terminalia chebula)
- Long Pepper (Piper longum)
- Rhodiola (Rhodiola rosea)
- Shatavari (Asparagus racemosus)
- Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum)
Note how many of these are grown organically and biodynamically or responsibly wild-crafted by ORGANIC INDIA, which is just one facet of our overall True Wellness theme.
Ashwagandha: A Gold Standard Adaptogen
There is no scarcity of evidence in traditional or western bioscience to indicate that Ashwagandha is a potent anti-stress6 adaptogen7. In fact, in many tests of adaptogens it is Ashwagandha that is used as the standard of adaptogenic activity.
Indeed, it is one thing for an herb or substance to be tested for a given activity. This means that there is a likelihood that the substance will have the activity but it is not certain. It is an entirely different matter when an herb or substance is used as a standard measurement of a given activity. An herb used as a control or standard has been proven without a shadow of doubt that it has the activity. There is no doubt at all that Ashwagandha is a potent anti-stress adaptogen and thus is used as a standard of measurement.8
Ashwagandha, which literally means “the earthy strength of a stallion,” is one of the best herbs to support deep groundedness and the kind of calm that arises naturally from an experienced sense of enduring strength.
Tulsi: The Most Useful Adaptogen
Because it so deeply supports healthy metabolism from the stomach and liver to the cell and mind, and because healthy metabolism is key to health in general, Tulsi is certainly amongst the most overall useful adaptogens, a gem amongst gems. One can take Tulsi in a wide variety of forms as well, from a garnish, to a whole herb Tulsi capsule, to my favorite - Tulsi Gotu Kola Tea, which combines two epic adaptogens in the form of a cup of tea, itself an anti-stress empowering medicine.
In one of the seminal studies on adaptogens, physical endurance and all parameters of healthy stress response were significantly increased more via the use of Tulsi9than for other more widely known adaptogens, such as Ginseng and Eleuthero.
Amalaki: Shining through the Three Stages of Stress
Amalaki literally means “the one that makes you so pure that you shine.” It is one of the most used herbs in the world as it is part of many formulas such as Triphala, and also is consumed by millions daily with their meals as a delicious and digestive condiment.
The general aim of adaptogen therapy lies in their ability to reduce stressful agitation reactions during the alarm phase of the stress response, support the physiological rallying during the resistance phase of stress response, and prevent or at least delay the state of fatigue during the final stage of stress response, (exhaustion), and in doing so, provide a certain level of protection against long-term stress and eventual exhaustion and systemic decay.10
Amalaki supports us at all three stages of stress reactions and is shown in tests to clearly be an anti-stress immunomodulating adaptogen11 that also supports us in emotional and cognitive wellness.12
What is more, Amla, as it is also called, is one of the world's best herbs to support a healthy balance between the aggressive factors of digestion; the acids and enzymes, and the protective factors of digestion; the mucus, structural cells and alkalinity in general. This support of the homeostasis of all levels of physiology, even at the levels of the histones within the chromatins within the nucleus within the cell, is why the use of adaptogens is such a great practice.
Brahmi: The Herb of Vivifying Clear Creativity
Brahmi, a collective term for the herbs Centella (Gotu Kola) and Bacopa, literally means the “Divine Goddess of Harmonious Creativity” as it is so excellent at supporting the cognitive health necessary for creativity in all realms of our life.
One of the reasons that Brahmi is so famous is that Gotu Kola is one of the main herbs that the renowned Chinese herbalist and yogi, Li Ching-Yuen (1677-1933) used to create his incredible longevity of 256 years. I know that sounds hyperbolic, however his lifetime is thoroughly documented. So we can use Li Ching-Yuen as an inspiration to expand our limited concepts of life, as in the end it is our mind that controls our life, and our concepts and belief systems that control our mind. This of course, the expansion of limited concepts and mindpower, is exactly the point of why we should consume adaptogens that enhance cognitive power, longevity and possibility.
In India, for 8000 years Brahmi has been used as an adaptogen that is truly age-defying, as it assists in the regeneration of nerve tissue supporting memory and mental acuity. This is just one reason why Tulsi Gotu Kola Tea is my favorite, especially when taken to help swallow down capsules of the Brahmi-Gotu Kola Formula or the Joy! Formula. The combination of Tulsi and Brahmi is simply such a wellness enhancer, as excellent as it is tried and true.
Adaptogens for the Mind
We spoke of adaptogens for the mind being so very important. The following paragraphs are almost verbatim from the abstract of an article on adaptogens and rasayanas by Dr Singh of BHU, one of the most respected doctors at one of the most respected schools in India. In the article, published in the Biogerontology Journal, he clearly shows the connection between Centella and special mind/brain adaptogens called medhya rasayanas. In this International peer-reviewed scientific journal he states:
"Ayurveda is the oldest system of medicine in the world, its antiquity going back to the Vedas. It adapts a unique holistic approach to the entire science of life, health and cure. The areas of special consideration in Ayurveda are geriatrics, rejuvenation, nutrition, immunology, genetics and higher consciousness.
The Ayurvedic texts describe a set of rejuvenative measures to impart biological sustenance to the bodily tissues. These remedies are called rasayana which are claimed to act as micronutrients. Some of these rasayanas are organ and tissue specific. Those specific to brain tissue are called medhya rasayana. Such rasayanas retard brain aging and help in regeneration of neural tissues besides producing antistress, adaptogenic and memory enhancing effect.
In addition to the long tradition of textual and experience-based evidence for their efficacy, certain recent studies conducted on these traditional remedies on scientific parameters have shown promising results which have been reviewed in this paper for providing lead for further studies. The most popular and potent medhya rasayanas are Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri), Mandukaparni (Centella asiatica) and Sankhapushpi (Convolvulus pluricaulis)."13
Does this list of herbs look familiar? He is basically describing the Joy! Formula, which was created for ORGANIC INDIA by the Ayurvedic expert Dr. John Douillard. Indeed adaptogens that are specific to the mind are a wonderful gift to give ourselves and all those around us, especially in these times of such epic stressors in our lives, and all the more around the most stressful time of the year, the Holidays!
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