The Organic Food Guide: How to Shop Smarter and Eat Healthier
Food shopping should be fun, but these days it’s downright confusing. Just trying to eat well and make healthy and nutritious meals for our families has gotten more and more complicated. Hormones, pesticides, antibiotics, mad cow disease, genetic modification - what impact do these issues have on our diet, our health, our waterways, our soil? How can the average person sift through confusing labeling, conflicting news reports, and unfamiliar terminology in order to select foods that are truly...
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This handy guide provides a quick introduction to organic food: what "organic" and related terms like "locally grown" and "all natural" mean, how to read food labels, and how organic foods are related to nutrition and health.
(1) Introduction (2) What's Organic? Some Other Natural Alternatives (3) Reading the Labels: What Do They Mean? (4) How It All Began: Origins of Organic Agriculture (5) Organic Foods: Healthier or Not? (6) Nutrition: Are Organic Foods More Nutritious? (7) Taste: Do Organic Foods Taste Better? (8) Price: Real Costs and Value of Organic Foods (9) How to Get Started Eating Organic (10) Notes (11) Resources: Where to Get More Information (12) Index
