Jim: Let me ask you this. With organic food, people see it out there and sometimes think it’s too expensive, is organic food worth the extra money and investment, you know, nutritionally?

Isabel Delos Rios:    It really, really is because — and I’ve done extensive research on the strain of conventional food versus organic food. And I did that because when I started eating organic food, I was living in New York City, barely making any money, and it was really a struggle to buy organic food.

But the amount of pesticide and herbicide that are sprayed on the conventional food, may be a little bit on an apple, a little bit on some broccoli, a little bit on some celery, but all of that little bit adds up to such an incredible amount. Now, adults can handle it a little bit better because our livers are fully functioning and can detoxify some of these things. It’s much, much worse for children, and they’re still developing, their livers are still developing, they don’t need these toxins inside their body, so it’s well, well worth it.

Now, for my clients who, this is a difficult transition, financially, they need to do this one step at a time, I always give them the guidelines. If something has a very thick skin and you’re not going to eat it, well, then, you can keep those conventional until you can get those organics.

So, avocados, if I can only get them conventional, I’ll do that. Bananas, if I can only get them conventional, okay, that’s okay. But things like celery and strawberries and apples and pears, things that I’m actually eating the skin, if it’s not organic, I will not even go near it.

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