How about herbicides and pesticides? Organically grown food is becoming quite popular, but is it actually better for you? Well my brother the doctor would not be impressed with the evidence, since there is no double blind study yet to prove it. Doctors that I have talked to have no opinion other than it "sounds like a good idea." At one lecture I attended, the doctor speaking said that the plants receiving pesticides or herbicides protect themselves by encasing pollutants in cellulose. When we eat those plants, the cellulose passes right through us, so it is questionable whether the pollutants actually affect us.

Dr. Henry Bieler notes that if you are going to cook your food anyway, don't bother spending more for organic. Personally, if I have to choose between a strange colored, wizened organic orange and a bright colored "Sunkist" orange bursting with juice, I'll take the "Sunkist" at half the price. Remember the laughable scene in the "Jetson's" comic strip where they get their food in capsules? Well this is becoming a reality. My family and I are all supplementing our fruit, vegetable, nut and grain intake with capsules of natural fruit and vegetables. (If you're interested, and you are looking for an alternative to eating large quantities of raw fresh fruits and vegetables, print out this MAILER, drop it in the mail, and I'll send you a free SAMPLE.)

90% of the nutritional value of fresh fruits & vegetables comes in just as they are fully ripe. The "fresh" produce that you see on the grocers shelves was picked weeks ago, well before its moment of ultimate ripeness and perfection, shipped hundreds of miles, and then, much of what nutrition it still has is lost when you prepare & cook it. Your average tomato for instance was designed by a geneticist to have a thick tough skin so it cuts beautifully (chefs love to design pretty tomato sculptures), was picked before it had ripened when it was green and hard, shipped on the average 1,500 miles (ask your grocer), then put in a room and gassed to kill it. At that point it has perhaps 12 enzymes versus the 32 found in a vine ripened tomato grown in your garden.

So what do you eat? See MENU.