If you can not switch entirely to organic produce, focus on avoiding the most heavily contaminated fruits and vegetables.  

Limit your intake of conventionally produced proteins–eggs, dairy products, meats, and poultry, which may contain hormones, antibiotics, and pesticides, along with farm-raised fish, which are often raised in polluted waters using some of the same offenders.

When buying full- or high-fat milk, cheese, and yogurt, it is important to buy organic since chemicals lodge in the fat.  

When you buy conventional produce, wash well or peel. 

Avoid nonorganic dried fruits because the concentration level of pesticides is much higher and you can’t wash them. 

Choose organic baby food for infants whenever possible because small bodies turn over lots of calories and are thus more vulnerable. 

And the damage can be to a child’s actual development rather than “just” health.

Can what we eat come back to haunt us?  The evidence here is not conclusive:  breast cancer rates in industrial countries have risen 1 percent a year since 1940.  Prostate cancer has risen 3.9 percent a year between 1973 and 1991. 

Sperm counts have dropped about 1 percent a year since 1970 for men in Western countries.

Childhood cancer is on the rise. 

And the age of sexual maturity is declining in the United States one in seven Caucasian girls and one in two African-Americal girls star to develop breasts and pubic hair by age eight.

Since human physiology is so complex, scientists will always have a tough time identifying the root cause of these problems. 

Is it food, or other things in our environment, or both? 

No one knows. 

No matter what we do, we are going to be exposed to dangerous chemicals. 

Eating organic is a simple and effective way to drastically reduce your body’s toxic load and free our land from a significant source of contamination.