5 ways to reduce toxins in your diet
Commit to organic meats and dairy.
Many shoppers opt for organic produce to avoid pesticides. But animal fatty tissue can be just as much of a danger, says McKay Jenkins, PhD, author of What’s Gotten Into Us? (Random House, 2011). That’s because many toxic offenders are fat soluble, so animals (including humans) store them in fat cells rather than releasing them in urine. Eating organic meats and dairy minimizes exposure to pesticides, chemical fertilizers, steroids, and other toxins rampant in conventional products.
“It’s worth the extra cost,” Jenkins says. “And basic market forces dictate that as more people buy [organic animal products], the prices will drop, as we’ve seen with produce.”