I would love raw milk, it apparently has potential to help people with lactose intolerance via the lactobacilli bacteria. Plus pasteurization gets rid of lots of great things in the milk.

As for organic things, you may want to make sure:

Your pork, turkey, chicken = Pastured. Pork that has been pastured has higher Omega-3's, as well as many things, same with chickens. In fact, not only are the animals' meat healthier, free-range/pastured chicken eggs have greater nutrition: Eggs From Pastured Poultry: Surprising (?) Health Benefits!

As for beef, go with grass-fed, organic beef CAN have great CLAs and omega-6:3 ratios, but fail to produce the same amount of beta-carotene (retinol) and vitamin E as grass-fed beef. Of course, there is certified organic grassfed beef, but if it just says "organic beef" then you still may have to worry about E. Coli, which, you don't in grass-fed beef.

Just my two cents.

Eating organic is a good idea but where i live it's expensive.

I live near a organic bulk barn-esque place. fucking rocks.


vegan so I eat around 95% organic anyway lololol

While those are good rules, only the third one is truly a quality of organic food. :confused:

I've heard raw milk has some good stuff in it but it can also potentially carry harmful diseases. It's illegal to sell unpasteurized milk in a lot of places. (Canada, for sure.)

I think you're right in saying "shop healthy". You can eat healthy without eating "organic" (unless you're using this as a general term and not actually referring to foods that are certified organic), but it's a great step to make if you can afford it. There's some foods that are better to buy organic than others - I forget the list but I believe some of them are fruits like apples, cherries, and strawberries.

Farmer's markets are also supercool in the summer when you can get stuff from them, and they're generally decently cheap.

Let's noooottttt. Need junk to function<3

One of the leading causes of fatigue is dehydration if I remember correctly. We need about 3 liters a day. If you drink a dehydrator such as coffee you need more than that. I couldn't resist the impulse to post a health tip, I know.

I'll be sure to get in touch if I ever need advice on becoming unhealthy and getting diabetes.

Give me $400 a month for food and I'll go organic.

Awesome. My advice comes with a surcharge, though.

Apparently basically all the beef here in Australia is grass fed. You guys just get screwed over by all the corn subsidies your bloated federal government hands out.


Is 400 a month excessive? That's about how much I spend.

As far as I am aware, Pasteurisation is done to prevent bacteria from surviving in the milk, and yes whilst it may kill some useful bacteria I would rather them get rid of harmful and non harmful rather than leave it as-is. But that's my opinion, everyone is free to have their own.

And white bread/pasta etc. isn't non-organic, you're just getting organic confused with nutritional value.... Whole-grain is better as it includes the entire grain and most of the nutrients are in the parts not included in regular white bread/pasta... Whether it includes the entire grain or not does not make it organic or non-organic......
Looks like someone needs to research the definitions of words before using them to give advice.

I don't eat solely organic foods, but I do eat some.... but not everybody can afford to live off a purely organic diet... I can but I don't see the point. But people on lower incomes may be low on money and therefor unable to afford organic foods, here some organic foods can cost up to 3x or 4x the price of non-organic.

I love tasting good foods<3 If that's not part of my life, I wouldn't have much pleasure.

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I love tasting good foods<3 If that's not part of my life, I wouldn't have much pleasure.

You're doing something seriously wrong if you can't make healthy food taste nice.

I have to say I would much prefer to eat organic foods also. Although, the price is a lot higher than the usual non-organic products so I can't afford to do it at the moment.

It's not about them 'tasting nice'. It's about tasting all there is to taste.

I've heard raw milk has some good stuff in it but it can also potentially carry harmful diseases. It's illegal to sell unpasteurized milk in a lot of places. (Canada, for sure.)