Are Organic Foods Really Better for You? Dr. Oz Investigates | Oz Health
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- Are Organic Foods Really Better for You? Dr. Oz Investigates | Oz Health
Are organic foods really better for you? In this episode of Oz Health, Dr. Oz dives into the long-standing debate about the benefits of organic foods. Discover the truth about whether organic means healthier and learn about the presence of pesticides in our food. Are pesticides one of the greatest hidden threats to your child's health? Dr. Oz investigates and provides crucial insights.
Plus, get Dr. Oz's recommendations on highly beneficial organic foods for you and your family. Find out which organic choices can make a significant impact on your health and well-being.
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Another good option is to buy from local farmers and check out their farms. Organic is a label that is paid for. Buying local or growing your own is really good.
To be a certified organic farmer, you have to do a lot more than pay someone. There's a book of rules and regulations that you need to follow that's about 1/2" thick (I have a copy...though now it's online). If it was only about not spraying pesticides, it would be one page long. Plus, a human comes to your farm every year and looks thru you land, record books, accounting records, etc. to make sure you're doing the right thing and if not, they will pull your organic certification and take your listing down from the website that lists organic farms. I'm speaking from what I'm familiar with and that's in the northeastern US. The certifying agency here is NOFA (the Northeast Organic Farming Association), and they have 7 state chapters so they cover CT, MA, NH, NJ, NY, RI, and VT.
I"m all for supporting local farmers, but they just don't have the accountability that a certified organic farm does. They may tell you one thing, but there's no guarantee they're not going to use XYZ pesticide, herbicide, fungicide, when they feel like they want/need to. I will buy food from farmers who aren't certified organic, but before I will we've had a number of chats about what their farming methods are.
Growing your own food is good but make sure you've had your soil tested for heavy metals otherwise you'll be eating lead, etc. and that's not a good idea. Also, what are your neighbors using on their property? If they're spraying pesticides or using Round-Up on their lawns, it will drift and get on or in your food, and you'd be better off buying certified organic food that doesn't have Round-Up, etc. on it. ❤☮🌎
Says the corporate farm rep. This response pretty much makes my point for me. Anyone who instills doubt in people growing their own food is just gatekeeping for profit. As I said earlier, checking out what your local farmers do is inherently better than trusting a government inspector following the rules lobbyists got put in place.
@@guillaumedep1 Hate to disappoint you (my boyfriend got a good laugh with your categorization of who you think I am), but I've worked with a small (under 100 acres though the federal government considers small anything under 500 acres) 12th generation certified organic family farm for about 30 years and so no, I'm not a corporate farm rep (neither conventional nor organic). In my neck of the woods over the years I've gotten to know a number of farms and farmers, both organic and not. There are no factory farms or corporate farms near where I live/travel. So, I am a fan of local farms (and do buy from some that aren't organic)...I just prefer those that are certified organic.
You sure you're not an industry shill trying to sully the good name of certified organic farmers who've been doing the right thing for many decades, and are trying to convince people to not buy the food they grow?
It also doesn't sound like you have any idea of how the organic standards were formed or work, or how farms are certified organic. Since the federal organic standards were formed, some lobbyists (not all are evil) do try and change and dumb them down. However, long time advocates and activists monitor these actions and so far have prevented the evil lobbyists from making negative changes...to make sure organic really means organic. What's the name of the local organization in your neck of the woods that certifies farms organic? Mine is NOFA (the Northeast Organic Farming Association), and they were certifying farms organic before the federal government got involved, and if the federal government decides to gets rid of all of its offices, NOFA will probably still be around to keep doing what they do (and they do a great job...and I don't work for NOFA either...so there!). ❤☮🌎
@@guillaumedep1 If I'm instilling doubt in people about growing their own food, it's not to ultimately discourage them from doing so (and I doubt it would), but to instill doubt that they might not be doing it correctly. Just not spraying and not using synthetic fertilizer is the tip of the iceberg as to what it takes to grow certified organic produce. So if anything, I'm not "gatekeeping for profit' but "gatekeeping" for safety and a lack of knowledge. Most people are fooling themselves if they think what they grow in their backyard has the same level of nutrients and lack of toxins as food coming from a certified organic farmer in the USA (or they don't think about it or they don't care). Whether it's an urban, suburban or rural garden, unfortunately it runs the risk of having the soil contaminated with lead and other heavy metals and other toxins, but you can do research on remediating contaminated urban soil and put those practices to use in cleaning up one's own space to garden.
And as far as growing your own food saving you money? It can, but a good book to check out is The $64 Tomato by William Alexander, because sometimes if you figure in all the time, garden prep and inputs, it can be cheaper to buy food from a local farmer (preferably certified organic).
If people are interested in learning more about organic farming/gardening, they should contact the local organization that certifies farms organic in their part of the country and get a copy of the organic standards (I think it would be quite the eye-opener). And a good book to have on the shelf is Rodale's Basic Organic Gardening by Deborah L. Martin. ❤☮🌎
I'm all about supporting local farmers (I'm grateful to them all), but my first priority is always going to be supporting a local farmer who's certified organic. When you "check out" your local farms, do they let you go thru their barns to see what inputs they're using, and look at their accounting books to see if they're sending any checks to companies like Bayer, Syngenta, BASF or DowDuPont? If not, there's no actual third party independent accountability involved which is why I'm a fan of certified organic farms. I understand you can be a farmer who uses organic farming practices and not be certified organic, but I prefer those that are. Non-organic farmers will complain about the cost of becoming organic but the first year it's only $200 and after that there's a reimbursement program where you can get money back, and if you sell under $5,000 gross you don't have to pay anything and can apply for voluntary organic certification status for free. ❤☮🌎
Out of the 200 or so studies used, I'd like to know who funded each one, who the researchers were, their testing methods, and if any of the researchers had ties to companies making pesticides or producing GMOs. After I had all the info, I could make a better assessment as to how accurate and unbiased the studies might have been.
I've taken ag classes in conventional settings and the mindset there is that soil is something to keep plants from falling over, and synthetic fertilizers are all you need to grow food. While organic farmers, in a sense, grow soil, because if the soil isn't healthy and the nutrients aren't in the soil (by using compost, green manure, rock dusts and other non-toxic things), they're not going to be in the food grown in it. I have a feeling I could come up with a number of studies showing that certified organic foods do have more nutrients than "conventionally" grown foods. ❤☮🌎
It's 2024, not sure why the government hasn't made strict laws in US against using chemicals in natural foods also PFAS chemicals.
Oh wait... the greed!
Organic all the way!!
so your saying peope who cant afford organic food is screwed?
@@simonjohn70Yes
Low levels should be changed he is right! 🙌
I’ve never seen organic potaoes
This lady needs to realize that years ago, these pesticides and GMO's weren't as prevalent as they are now. So her food was safer.
Chemical Engineer here, I've been to a plant that makes pesticides, I can assure everyone that they are dangerous and bad, the chemicals there used to make pesticides are ones you wouldn't want to work with under a fume hood, they have 55 gallon drums of those chemicals, and worse than that, the plant makes artificial flavors in the same building (not the same equipment) you don't want this stuff in your body, you may not be able to wash them off
Dok Oz, please don't accept personally. I respect you 💖 very much and appreciate your Hard work.
BUT, please leave it alone that slizy topics.
Nice job Dr. Oz! Am interested in getting Dr. Greene's books Feeding Baby Green and Raising Baby Green, as presents for some new moms I know. ❤☮🌎
so what do we eat then
Any food is better than no food. Whole foods are better than processed or junk foods. Certified organic foods are better than those that aren't. You do the best you can, and maybe try and do better when and where you can. And as the author Michael Pollan has said...eat food, not too much, and mostly plants. And what he means by "food" is whole foods, and not ultra-processed food-like substances that masquerades as "food". Suggested reading...Ultra Processed People: the science behind food that isn't food by Chris van Tulleken. ❤☮🌎
🤔What are natural pesticides we can use to grow vegetables and fruits in our own backyard yards???
Buy a book like "Rodale's Basic Organic Gardening," by Deborah L. Martin, and subscribe to emails from a good organic gardening teacher like Joe Lamp'l (that's how you spell his name) and get some good advice on how not to need to spray your food with anything. ❤☮🌎
I never buy organic foods because I don't know if it's real or not pluz for me is expensive
Good for you, eat pesticide as much as you can, what you saved by not eating organic years in life time you will pay doctors visits, for medicine, if only your doctor finds you problems, lot of time thy never will.
@@Levon9404 my grandma she never eat organic in her life because what ever said we don't know rif it's eal or not and super expensive and theirs o lot of scammer now she rich 100 year old I think it's depends apon your immune system how to fight the deaseses that organic organic if you what that just grow your own food that way you know where they came from
@Levon9404 my grandmother 👵 her age rich 💯 years old we grow up poor we never buy organic foods never be cause what eve said who knows its true or not I think for me it's upon your body to fight disease before I used to buy olive oli but I found out its not real olive oil is a big scam so I decide not to buy anymore pluz super expensive praise God where not been to the doctor eventhough in the store its hard to trust now a days its about money money money just goodluck to your organic foods
@Levon9404 my grandmother never buy organic foods buts praise the lord she rich hundreds years old because for us it's to expensive we don't have budget for that and are you sure you buying organic theirs a lot out there there not telling the truth I thinks it's about your imume system also I think that organic foods it's just for rich people praise the lord where still healthy never been to the doctor just goodluck to your organic foods
@@shakirabells6955 I’m truly sorry to hear that, you are struggling financially. Trust me to eat clean food, you don’t have to be richer, if you live in an apartment that apartment has balcony you can grow vegetables in the pots. If you live in the house, you should be able to accommodate backyard or front yard
That’s scary with food
U should worry about fast food, sodas, sugars not pesticides.
Good first step, but that doesn't mean one should ignore ingesting toxins when you've gone from eating junk food to whole foods. ❤☮🌎
Thanks so much. God Bless 🙌 🙏 ❤❤❤
Organic is for rich people 😳
Yes, and now. If people stop buying all junk food they will safe so much money to put towards good quality food. Plus you xan try to find local farmers. Good quality food is expensive, that's true. Fruits absorb more pesticides than vegies.
Organic food isn't just for "rich" people. I've worked with people with very low incomes who wanted to eat organic and between looking at how they spent their money regarding food purchases, and using the Environmental Working Group's Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 list you can pick and choose which foods are more important to buy organic, and if you plan weekly menus and shop thoughtfully (buy in bulk where it makes sense), it's possible to include a lot more organic foods in your diet. Plus, there are government programs that have food coupons for single women with children, and for senior citizens, where they can use the coupons to purchase food from local greenmarkets and buy organic foods there at no cost. Where there's a will, there's a way...but whether you say you can or you can't - you'll be right. ❤☮🌎
Hola digo yo que todos los alimentos tienen que pasar por un control de calidad
At the present time they don't, especially food from out of the USA. The government doesn't spend enough money to have enough workers to inspect all the cargo that comes into the harbors, etc., so a lot doesn't get inspected at all. ❤☮🌎
No more fruits or vegetables 😂
No pesticides use bar Irish spring
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