This is at least one reason to consider local farmers, who's practices you can gauge, and to go easy on fruit and veggies, especially out of season. It may also, depending on the farmer involved, be a reason for buying organic:
These pesticides gone mad is just one of the many reason why, no matter what the theories involved, when we actually test folks who eat more, they don't do any better than those who eat fewer veggies. Eat veggies if you like them - but don't let them fool you into thinking "plant based foods" are some 'super food' that's going to cure what ails you.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=pesticides-may-block-male-hormones
Thirty out of 37 widely used pesticides tested by the group blocked or mimicked male hormones. Sixteen of the 30 had no known hormonal activity until now, while there was some previous evidence for the other 14, according to the study, published online last Thursday in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Most of the newly discovered hormone disruptors are fungicides applied to fruit and vegetable crops, including strawberries and lettuce. Traces of the chemicals remain in foods.
These pesticides gone mad is just one of the many reason why, no matter what the theories involved, when we actually test folks who eat more, they don't do any better than those who eat fewer veggies. Eat veggies if you like them - but don't let them fool you into thinking "plant based foods" are some 'super food' that's going to cure what ails you.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=pesticides-may-block-male-hormones
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