A recent Medscape article recounts the link between specific agricultural pesticides and an increased risk of Type 2 Diabetes in wives of farmers using the pesticides.

This was in farming communities in Iowa and Connecticut.

What is the chance, however, that the same does not hold good in our local communities? In fact, during a demonstration of an agricultural product to grape farmers in an unnamed area famous for its grapes, the farmers candidly declared that they never eat their own produce, because they are fully aware of the pesticides they have used during the process!!!

But we buy, eat and relish the same grapes – because we don’t know better or because we don’t have a choice.

So the bottomline is – our food is exposing us to the risk of chronic illness when it is supposed to nourish us. Scary, isn’t it?

Simply underlines the need for protection. We have seen in an earlier post, that what we eat affects our genes and this information is passed on to our offspring and also our grandchildren.

How can we protect ourselves? Through liberal intake of anti-oxidants in fruit and vegetables. By eating organic as far as possible. By avoiding processed foods and GMO foods. By choosing meat and dairy from grass fed animals.

Be sensible, stay healthy, avoid illness!