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Organic diets aid in weight loss

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Organic foods can help individuals shed unwanted pounds. Since organic food contains no preservatives, additives, pesticides, or growth hormones your body's digestive system works more efficiently.  Many inorganic foods are made up of so many preservatives you are hardly ingesting real food. Too much salt, chemicals and dyes are added to food for fake flavor. This makes it very hard for your body to obtain the proper nutrients and vitamins from food you need to maintain a healthy weight.

  • If you are trying to lose weight, keep your current weight or build lean muscle mass, eating organic foods can definitely help you. Your body will utilize the nutritional content out of organic food and provide the proper type of fuel you need to work out.
  • Eating organic carbohydrates: grains and fruits will help build cardiovascular stamina. Your liver can process carbs into glycogen then glucose more quickly for endurance purposes
  •  Organic vegetables work as antioxidants flushing free radicals out of your system.  Lose excess water weight. Inorganic vegetables are grown with pesticides and may make you retain water.
  • Organic proteins, meats, poultry, fish and eggs give your body the healthy amino acids you need to build lean muscle mass. Some meats have growth hormones injected into them which in return can cause you to build growth hormones and gain weight.

Your body has a natural structure composed of certain x and y chromosomes. Eating organic foods keep unwanted free radicals out of your system which can alter your genetic makeup in the long run. Eat clean, feel clean, look clean. Its a simple motto.

 

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  • random person 2 years ago
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    + organic food just tastes better. if u eat a non-organic bannana and then an organic one u will notice the diference.

  • christine 2 years ago
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    People its high time u realize what harm ur doing to urself and to this planet by conveniently eating non-organic food. Make this world a better place n support organic food:-)

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