Health
Organic food is generally considered to be produced without the use of artificial fertilizers, without synthetic pesticides or antibiotics, hormones or other growth promoters.
The advantages of organic food for the consumer include higher nutritional levels, and over the long term studies have found the health benefits to be substantial. It is perhaps for this reason that organic baby food has become very popular. A university of Washington study found that preschool children fed regular diets had six times more metabolized organophosphate pesticides in their bodies than children who had been fed on organic diets. Organic fruit vegetables and juices as a part of a healthy balanced diet can considerably reduce exposure to harmful pesticides.
I've recently heard lots of people telling me how they'd like to try being a vegetarian but either they don't know where to start or they jumped straight in with admirable enthusiasm but then quickly gave up. I've since decided to put together a few tips I've learnt myself along my own journey to becoming a vegetarian.
"The patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop." -- Quentin Regestein.