Pregnancy tips Organic Food More Important For Kids

There is a good reason to feed your kids organically grown food even if you don't eat it yourself. Kids are at greater risk from toxins. Read more:

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But babies and children are at greater risk than healthy adults for several reasons:

• A child's immature kidneys are less able to break down toxins that can disrupt their growing nervous or endocrine systems. Exposure to pesticides during central nervous system development may lead to long-lasting effects on brain function and behavior.

• Until the age of six, a child's body has more water and less fat than adult's. In an adult, fats trap and store pesticide residues, but in a child they are less able to do so, leaving more toxins circulating in the blood.

• Children have greater exposure to pesticides because they eat and drink far more per kilogram of body weight than adults. They also eat more high-risk foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables, which tend to have more pesticides applied during cultivation. A typical one-year-old child consumes 21 times more apple juice, 11 times more grape juice and 2-7 times more grapes, bananas, pears, carrots and broccoli than the average adult, according to the Consumers Union.

In January 1998, the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization, released a controversial report entitled Overexposed: Organophosphate Insecticides in Children's Food, in which they concluded that 1 million children a day are being exposed to "unsafe levels of toxic pesticides in fruit, vegetables and baby food." Of the 1 million children described in the EWG's report, as many as 40,000-50,000 may ingest pesticides at levels 10 times higher than Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reference doses.