Nicole Tomlinson: Synthetic chemicals, pesticides, hormones. Buzz words used to make us go organic. But are these warnings really valid or is it just a lot of hype trying to get us to spend more money? I mean after all living the organic lifestyle really can increase your budget. I am here today to find out exactly what and where we should go organic without busting our wallets.
Our guest today is Patrick Timpone of Timpones Market. Hi Patrick.
Patrick Timpone: Hello there how are you?
Nicole Tomlinson: Could you please tell me why should Americans go organic?
Patrick Timpone: Well, there is no chemicals or pesticides in organic food. So it's -- pesticides are other than the best foods to eat.
Nicole Tomlinson: Which of these three items would normally contain the most pesticides that I should start buying only organically?
Patrick Timpone: Bananas are traditionally sprayed very highly. Grapes are sprayed very highly, strawberries.
Nicole Tomlinson: Now I eat bananas every day, they are one of my favorite fruits. Tell me why it is so important that these we bought only organically.
Patrick Timpone: Well there is a lot of different things about bananas. You see right now they have these little specks of brown things in bananas.
Nicole Tomlinson: Those are the seeds right?
Patrick Timpone: Well that's what seeds used to be, there all pretty neutered, far sterile, or -- so there really not that good of a fruit to eat at all, bananas, because they have no life force or energy or chi in them.
Nicole Tomlinson: I can't really afford to go organic all the way. So what would be another key staple, besides just the bananas and the other grapes and such, to incorporate into my grocery list?
Patrick Timpone: I think lettuce, lettuce and celery and those, the greens.
Nicole Tomlinson: What do you think is going to happen if Americans don't really start to change the way that they eat and what they buy at the stores?
Patrick Timpone: Well I think what's happening is already happening. America is the
sickest country on the planet and we spend more on health care than any country in the world.
Nicole Tomlinson: Healthcare does get expensive.
Patrick Timpone: Well yeah because it doesn't work because they are just going after
the symptoms of all of these diseases, and so people are getting sick with high blood pressure and cholesterol and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and all these things when they are 60 and 70 years old because of pollution and chemicals and plastics and environment and food.
Most people around the country around the world don't really get it, that we are what we eat. And they still don't get it. We don't know the true benefits of not having chemicals in our diet. All we do know is that the chemicals and the preservatives and other things do cause imbalances in the kidneys and the liver and in other areas which cause malfunctions of the body. The trick is to keep as clean as a diet as you possibly can.
Nicole Tomlinson: This is really delicious. That's good, that's really good. Okay Jennifer when I first got over here I thought this was just decoration. But I am guessing that it's not, what is its purpose?
Jennifer Pittman: This is wheat grass. Okay this is ocean grown wheat grass. People use wheat grass for their B-Vitamins, cleans your blood, high in chlorophyll, but this is ocean grown so it has 92 minerals as in the soil because it is grown with the concentrated ocean water.
Nicole Tomlinson: Alright we are ready for the shot.
Jennifer Pittman: Okay, here you go.
Nicole Tomlinson: I am a little nervous, okay so, bottoms up! That taste a little bit like grass. Like I just chewed on my lawn, but there is a sweet after taste, so it wasn't so bad. I was expecting it to be a lot worse.
I hope I have given you a little bit more insight on the benefits of going organic, at least now you know a few key items so you can substitute a little bit here and a little bit there. It can be a little bit more expensive, but in the long run think of all the money you will be saving on doctor bills, perhaps even saving your life.
I would like to thank Patrick Timpone and Jennifer for her delicious smoothies and wheat grass. From all of us here at Zen Living I am Nicole Tomlinson. It has been a pleasure to be here with you today and we will see you next time. See you.
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