It's Your Life - Avoiding Harmful Chemicals in Your Food

This book:

1 Identifies harmful pesticides and additives in food and gives advice on how to avoid them; it emphasises the importance of removing such chemicals from the diets of babies, children and pregnant women.

2 Gives details of the rates of pesticide contamination of fruit, vegetables and other types of food using easily interpreted tables.

3 Provides a summary table for identifying the least chemically polluted foods. 4 Gives a list of organic foods that are the most important to buy and an explanation of why, in these financially challenged times, it is unnecessary to eat just organic foods.


Professor Norman Ratcliffe is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and has published over 200 books and research papers on immunology, cancer, influenza, tropical diseases and MRSA. Five years ago Professor Ratcliffe decided to produce a comprehensive but easily accessible book on health and fitness to help people of all different ages lead more healthy and fulfilling lives; the result of this five year project is the 'It's Your Life' series of books. There are six books in the series; five of these offer advice in specific areas, whilst the sixth - It's Your Life: End the confusion from inconsistent health advice - includes all of the advice given in the rest of the series.


Contents

Chapter 1: Are Pesticide Residues Present In Our Food? Are Organic Foods Safer?

UK organizations monitoring pesticide levels in food

origin of pesticides in food

types of pesticides in food

introduction to the "cocktail effect"

pesticide contamination rates in fruit

pesticide contamination rates in vegetables/salad

pesticide contamination rates in other types of food

summary table of foods with highest and lowest contamination rates

which organic foods to buy


Chapter 2: Is Our Food Safe? Additives: Preservatives, Colourants and Sweeteners

types of additives described

summary tables of types of additives and safety concerns

avoidance of toxic additives in diet