Articles about Organic, Vegetarian and Raw Foods

Note about this page: The latest issue of Positive Health magazine is published on the 4th Thursday of each month. The articles from that issue are placed on this web site on or about the same date.

Organic Food and Health: The Evidence by Shane Heaton Shane Heaton, a clinical nutritionist, has spent two years reviewing over 400 scientific papers and gathering scientific evidence that supports the view that organic food is better for us than non-organic, in terms of food safety, nutritional content and nutritional value.

Organic Food: Nutritional Value and Safety by Sarah Merson Is organic food nutritionally ‘better’ for us? Is it safer? Is there any evidence?

Organic Food and Cancer Risk by Lisa Saffron Can we reduce our risk of cancer by eating organic food? For many people, it is common sense that organic food is healthier than conventionally grown food. But a review of the scientific research does not confirm this point of view

The Arguments for Eating Organic Foods Book Extract If you are truly motivated to protect your health and sharply reduce your risk of breast cancer as well as other cancers, you will want to make the effort to purchase organically produced fruits, vegetables, and grains at every opportunity.

The Benefits of Organic Food by Taniya Maxted-Frost Our daily diet is now reported to contain residues of some 30 different artificial chemicals⁷ and a supermarket apple may have been treated up to 40 times with any of 100 chemicals.⁸

Cancer and Organic Meat by Lisa Saffron Since the 1970s, red meat has been suspected of increasing the risk of cancer. Recently the World Cancer Research Fund published its monumental review of the evidence on nutrition, food and cancer. They confirmed that eating large amounts of red meat increases the risk of several cancers, probably colorectal cancer and possibly pancreatic, breast, prostate and kidney cancers.

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Raw Foodism by Joe Alexander There are dozens and hundreds and thousands of diets, diet books and diet experts in the world today. Most people live on an omnivorous diet – that is, anything that it is possible to chew up and swallow and live long enough to tell about it, they will eat. But for one reason or another, many people have decided to adopt some restrictions.

Toxicless Diet by Paul Bragg and Patricia Bragg I live in biological years. That is what counts. How clean are your arteries and veins? How are your blood pressures? I have blood pressures of 120 over 80. This is the blood pressure of a boy of twenty. I have a steady, strong pulse of sixty. I have the eyes of an eagle and keen ears that can pick up the lightest sounds.

Biogenic Nutrition The idea for this article stemmed from our love of vegetarian cooking and the way it can be used to promote health.

Raw Food Diet for Health by Dr Kristine Nolfi Before I realised the actual importance of raw vegetable food, my attitude was exactly the same as that of other doctors – to treat the symptoms of the disease without thinking of preventing it.