Senior Living / Health, Mind, Body, and Sole - TEL 2022 - Flip Book

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Health Benefits of Organic Diet Planning to start an organic diet and ditch unhealthy processed food? Well, it's about time. Organic food protects you from the pesticides and chemicals that have become the root cause of several health problems. Not only this, but they also support different systems in your body due to their high nutrition. There are several benefits of an organic diet that you should know. Read on to learn how you can improve your health with an organic diet. Supports Overall Health Organic foods are free from chemical fertilizers 8

or pesticides. They are also not processed or produced using unhealthy chemicals. Due to these benefits, organic foods don't harm the human body. Rather, farmers use natural techniques such as crop rotation for pest and disease control and green manure to fertilize the lands. This helps them develop healthy, safer, and tasty food products. Offers Higher Antioxidant Content In some cases, organic foods have higher antioxidant content than GMOs and other foods. These foods are free of

organic chemicals, as they don't contain any chemicals that react with minerals, vitamins, and organic compounds. So, if you are looking for foods rich in antioxidants, adopt an organic diet. Provides Nutrients Well, you might already know that an organic diet is rich in nutrients. Farmers use a natural method of production that allows veggies, fruits, herbs, and other foods to become more nutritious. But with GMO-grown crops, you'll see that chemicals significantly reduce the crops' nutrient profile. Note that your body needs vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients for growth and development. If you don't get them from food, you might experience different problems like vitamin deficiencies. Nutrient-dense organic diet can make your life easy and healthier and prevent many health conditions.

Offer More Healthy Fats Your body needs healthy fats to develop and maintain overall improved health. Organic products like milk and meat offer more than 50% omega-3 fatty acids than inorganic products. Your body needs unsaturated healthy fat to improve cholesterol levels, stabilize heart rhythms, and ease inflammation. This is because organic livestock is raised outdoors on a grass-fed diet. Develop Stronger Immune System Though it was important to increase the industrial farming practices in the world to provide everyone with food, it has led to several problems such as lower immunity. Eating healthy and organic food can help you avoid these problems. You can build stronger immunity that will protect you from several health problems and illnesses. Moreover, Senior Living and Loving It • 2022


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