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Sunday, March 9, 2014

NU 6 # 2 - TEST STRIP FOR PESTICIDES by Arlene A. Panganiban

Now is the bandwagon for healthy living which includes eating and drinking of fresh vegetables and fruits. Popular books are now in the market all explaining how to juice or blend fresh vegetables with fruits,with different healthy benefits.  Fresh is important to be able to get the enzymes which are destroyed in cooking food on high heat.Before, because of the need, the medical industry has develop test strips for several purposes. Sugar testing, pregnancy testing, ketones, urine and other testings were  invented or developed for home use or patients use. Results were easily read and compared to tables provided for the users of the test strips.

Some people who wish to follow these healthy advice of eating fresh vegetables cannot afford organically grown fruits and vegetables. Are the organically advertised foods really organic, inspite of their very expensive prices? Can we afford the price or can we really trust the different growers who claim they are really organic?. And if we can trust them , how about if we cannot afford? 
Pesticides are used to kill insects that destroy crops. People is not safe to ingest pesticides. In short we cannot be healthy if we eat fresh fruits and vegetables with pesticides that we dont even know that we are ingesting too.Its a shame to spend money , plan your meals. make efforts to blend or juice, and changing to a healthy lifestyle and later find out that we are more sick than healthy after all the efforts. I am on the same predicament and wish and pray that this test strip come alive. 3.5 (patulong kay  Dr Edu Tuazon)
If someone can develop the test strip that can check pesticides present in the food we eat, then we can safely eat our fresh vegetable and fruits. It can show us in the guide table what kind of pesticide, how much is present, and how much is safe to eat anyway.
They have done so many test strips before so this is not impossible to happen. 

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