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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The evidence is that if there is actually any risk from the tiny bits of pesticides they find, it's dwarfed by the health benefits of eating fruits and vegetables. I worry that people are being scared off of eating nutritious food for no reason.

From: https://cuttothechasenutrition.com/buy-the-dirty-dozen-dont-buy-into-it/

"Are YOU at risk? Are Your Kids?

Short answer: NO, ... to assess your own safety, and that of your family, you must know how toxic a pesticide is for the amount you’re eating.

The Alliance for Food and Farming is a non-profit organization that represents both organic AND conventional farmers of fruits and vegetables. Their Safe Fruits and Veggies Calculator is a fabulous tool that calculates how many servings of a fruit or vegetable you’d have to eat in 1 day to reach maximum allowable pesticide residue ever recorded for that food. They have calculations for men,  women, teens, and children.

Let’s take strawberries and apply the calculations to young kids (average weight = 45 lb.):

Strawberries: 181 servings (1/2 cup is a serving) in ONE DAY “without any effect, even if the strawberries have the highest pesticide residue recorded for strawberries by USDA.” An adult woman? Figure 453 servings (226 cups!) before you’d reach that level."
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This calculation makes no sense to me. And why does it have to be eaten in one sitting to be harmful? Also, what if the usda limits are wrong, which they probably are?

This is a group that is promoting the consumption of fruit and vegetables so I wouldn’t necessarily trust them over an independent source.

I agree we should all eat fruits and vegetables but I think we should be seriously questioning all these pesticides. Let’s not hide the problem if there is one.[/quote]

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