The reasons for going organic

Everyone I know that is into organic food, healthy living has their own reasons of doing it. For me, it started with the number of cancers in my family, four aunts from my Dad's side and one uncle from my Mom's side. Seeing my aunt going from a healthy woman to losing her battle with cancer within a year really struck me hard. The pain I see her suffered through her treatment coupled with a history of cancer in the family, plus my not so great health since childhood got me researching the causes of cancer. Especially now that I found Mr Organic, I want to live a long and healthy life together with him.

Not surprisingly, I found out that the growth hormones, chemicals used in conventional meat, fruits and vegetables as well as chemicals in everyday products are part of the reasons why people are getting cancer at a much younger age these days. Large drug companies come up with new drugs to treat cancer, but they are just treating the symptoms and not the cause. Why would they as preventing cancer would mean a lost of their revenue? To me, the answer lies in changing the life style - switching to healthy, chemical free food and regular exercise.

I started slowly switching to more natural products slowly over the years. It takes some getting used to. The grocery bill more than double what I pay for conventional products and I need to shop at specialty natural food stores. But since we pack our own lunches and don't eat out that often, we still end up spending less money than the people that buy their lunches.