Are your vegetables beneficial to your health?

This morning I was told by a friend that he has always washed his vegetables thoroughly. When asked why he was so particular about the washing, he told me he had many good friends who were farmers. You know, those farmers, according to him, do not eat the vegetables they produce for sale. They have their own plot of land where they grow vegetables for their own consumption. These vegetables are never sprayed with insecticides or pesticides.

These farmers knew that the vegetables sprayed with insecticides and pesticides are toxic to the body. So, they eat organic vegetables while we eat toxic food unless we soak the vegetables for a long time. Do you know that it takes at least fourteen days to ensure that the pesticide is totally disintergrated. That is only for the ordinary pesticides. Of course, for grade one pesticides which are the most powerful, it may take a longer time. In fact, there are some very strong pesticides which take a few months to disintegrate.

Well, today we have enzymes which when put into water for washing vegetables, the enzyme will be able to remove the toxins. I am not too sure about that as there is no conclusive evidence anywhere.

So, the best thing to do when it comes to vegetables is to grow our own organic vegetables. Growing our own vegetables or greens is not difficult. Quite a number of people who have land or earth roadsides at their houses do plant some kind of vegetables for their own consumption.

Growing our own vegetables has its advantages. Knowing that it is definitely organic, we can eat it raw. That is in fact what I do with the greens I plant. Eating raw vegetables and fruits bring a lot of benefits which i shall go into in my next posting.