Brian D. Lawenda, M.D.: A folk’s worry that
pesticides spread on her foods might cause
cancer and I think that is you know a legitimate
concern.
The food and drug administration tells us
that the pesticides that are approved to be
used on our produce for example, in the dosing
that’s typically used on our foods do not
increase the risk of cancer in anyway in terms
of any convincing studies.
That said you know with our firm worker studies
out there that you for these folks who work
on the farm and are exposed on a daily basis
to pesticides, they do have an increase risk
of developing of variety of different cancers
in some studies.
So, that would be suggestive that maybe there
is a direct linkage between some of these
pesticides at least in higher dosage perhaps
and development of variety of types of cancers.
My recommendation is whenever possible try
to buy foods are not spread with pesticides,
so that would be a labeling that would say
organic.
If you can afford organic foods that would
be my recommendation otherwise one other things
you could also do is go to one of my favorite
website which is the environmental working
group or ewg.org and look at their list that
thy produce each year called a Dirty Dozen
and Clean 15 and what you can do is you can
find that the produce that are on the Dirty
Dozen list those of the once that are considered
the most toxic of them, those of the ones
would have most of the pesticide residues
in top of that list by the way is an apple
is supposed to keep the doctor away.
So, what I do is I would buy my produce organically
from the Dirty Dozen list and they have another
list called Clean 15.
Those of the cleanest of the produce and those
you could save your money in just buy those
in terms of conventional.
So, again whenever possible if you can afford
it try to buy our organic because of the toxic
exposures that hopefully will be less in those
products.
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