Mothers Milk and WIC

http://ons.wvdhhr.org/Portals/20/pdfs1/2010_shoppersguide_FINAL.pdf  This is a list of products which can be obtained through WIC in WV.  Brand Names?????  This is a list of GMO and non GMO products found in grocery stores:  http://truefoodnow.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/cfs-shoppers-guide.pdf

Do you see a correlation in these two lists?  Have you checked out the shoppersguide for your Appalachian state?  If you aren't outraged, you don't understand the problem.....  According to USDA pesticide detection data, conventional crops were six times as likely as organic to contain multiple pesticide residues. California Dept. of Health found pesticide residues in 31 percent of conventional foods and only 6.5 percent of organic samples, and found multiple residues nine times as often in conventional samples. Consumers’Union tests found pesticide residues in 79 percent of conventional food samples and 27 percent of organic samples, with multiple residues ten times as common in the conventional food. The levels of residues found in organic samples were also consistently lower than levels of the same pesticides found in conventional samples, in all three sets of residue data.Food Additives and Contaminants, May 2002B. P. Baker; C. M. Benbrook; E. Groth; K. Lutz BenbrookResearchers at the University of Washington found that a diet composed of predominantly organic food "provides a dramatic and immediate protective effect against exposures to organophosphorous(OP) pesticides."Twenty-three children were enrolled in the study, which included three phases of testing for OP insecticide metabolites in urine. Phase one -diet of conventionally grown foods.Phase two -five days of a predominantly organic diet.Phase three -return to a conventional diet.All 23 children had OP insecticide metabolites in their urine in phase one, while levels were below the limit of detection during phase two, following the consumption of mostly organic food for just five days. Once the children were back on the conventional food diet, the levels of insecticide metabolites in urine returned to those found in phase one.The researchers concluded that, "consuming food grown using organic production methods can virtually eliminate exposures to a dangerous class of insecticides known to disrupt neurological development in infants and children."Environmental Health Perspectives, Jan.15, 2008http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1289/ehp.10912According to three recent studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, children whose mothers were exposed to common pesticides are more likely to experience problems with cognitive development, including lower IQ and impaired memory and reasoning. The studies examined individuals from a range of ethnic backgrounds, and those who lived in both rural and urban settings. Environmental Health Perspectives, April 21, 2011http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/info:doi/10.1289/ehp.1003185President’s 2010 Cancer Panel ReportUrges consumers to choose foods grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers, antibiotics, and growth hormones to help decrease risks of contracting cancer. "Exposure to pesticides can be decreased by choosing, to the extent possible, foodgrown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers. Similarly, exposure to antibiotics, growth hormones, and toxic run-off from livestock feedlots can be minimized by eating meat raised without these medications.""Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now."Dr. LaSalle Leffall, Jr., Howard University, and Dr. Margaret L. Kripke, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, 2010.And a really big gunOrganic Milk and Meat Enhance the Nutritional Quality of Mom's Breast MilkMothers consuming mostly organic milk and meat products were found to have about 50 percent higher levels of rumenicacid in their breast milk. This Conjugated LinoleicAcid (CLA) is responsible for most of the health benefits of CLAs in milk and meat. The authors report that the greater reliance of organic beef and dairy farmers on pasture and forage grasses increases the levels of CLAs in milk and beef, and in turn in the breast milk of women eating organic animal products.British Journal of Nutrition, June 2007Studies have indicated that conjugated linoleicacids (CLA) naturally present in dairy products may have anti-diabetic, anti-mutagenic, anti-carcinogenic and anti-atherosclerotic effects on human health. Researchers in Germany, comparing the CLA content in organic and conventional milk, showed higher CLA, β-carotene, and α-tocopherolcontent in organic dairy products. The study also found significant differences in the CLA of cream from organic versus conventional milk.3rd Quality Low Input Food (QLIF) Congress: Improving Sustainability in Organic and Low Input Food Production Systems, University of Hohenheim, Germany, March