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Episode 117 Content and Overview

Your diet is a big contributor to your health and the health of your baby during pregnancy. It isn’t a secret that you should be eating healthy whole foods. Should you take it a step further and be eating organic during pregnancy? In its simplest form, “organic” certifies food that was produced without synthetic chemicals or fertilizers, genetic engineering, radiation or sewage sludge. One of the biggest reasons some consumers opt for organic foods is to avoid pesticides. This episode breaks down the difference between organic and conventional produce, meat, dairy, and other foods. Also included is some of the research and evidence on whether pesticides affect you or your baby during pregnancy, and what you need to know about GMO foods and pesticides.

Included in This Episode

• Eating Fish During Pregnancy
• Eating Meat During Pregnancy
• What does “organic” mean?
• How organic food products are labeled
• Nutritional differences between organic and conventional
• Nutritional differences of grass fed beef vs. conventional
• Environmental impact of organic vs. conventional produce
• AP Clinical Report, Organic Foods: Health and Environmental Advantages and Disadvantages
• Pesticides
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Urinary Metabolites of Organophosphate Pesticides
• Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticides and IQ in 7-Year-Old Children
• Seven-Year Neurodevelopmental Scores and Prenatal Exposure to Chlorpyrifos, a Common Agricultural Pesticide
• Brain anomalies in children exposed prenatally to a common organophosphate pesticide
• Food patterns and dietary quality associated with organic food consumption during pregnancy; data from a large cohort of pregnant women in Norway
• Reduced risk of pre-eclampsia with organic vegetable consumption: results from the prospective Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study
• Environmental Working Group Dirty Dozen
• Environmental Working Group Clean 15
• Pesticides and washing produce
• GMOs
• Institute for Responsible Technology
• FDA Consumer Info About Food from Genetically Engineered Plants
• Considerations and the downside of buying organic
• Consumer Reports Cost of Organic Food
• Farmer’s markets
• Decoding the labels on meat and dairy
• Environmental Working Group Decoding Meat + Dairy Product Labels
• Eating out
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