Who Eats Organic?

[soontobesix]

Just curious... does anyone on here eat organic food? I'm theorizing that the added hormones in our food may be playing a role in gender outcomes but I have no proof to back it up. It kind of falls into some of the diet theories on here. Example, added hormones are stored in an animal's fat so if you eat the high everything diet you would essentially eat more hormones which would sway for a boy. Anyone else have any research or knowledge to discuss this? Just curious. Thx!

[begonia]

Our family eats majority organic and local when it comes to produce. That said, things with a thick rind that you don't eat, like grapefruit, bananas etc aren't nearly as likely to have absorbed any pesticides as say, a raspberry. There's a list if you google "dirty dozen foods to buy organic" that will show you what you should look for. As far as meat/poultry we also do grass-fed, local for that. Because we can find good local sources (and buy in bulk) it has often been comparable in price to what I find in the grocery store.

My boy sway didn't work, so maybe I should have eaten more hormones :)

My favorite book I read recently on the topic was by Nina Planck; interestingly ... she has 2 sons.
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Food-What-Eat-Why/dp/1596911441

[atomic sagebrush]

Just curious... does anyone on here eat organic food? I'm theorizing that the added hormones in our food may be playing a role in gender outcomes but I have no proof to back it up. It kind of falls into some of the diet theories on here. Example, added hormones are stored in an animal's fat so if you eat the high everything diet you would essentially eat more hormones which would sway for a boy. Anyone else have any research or knowledge to discuss this? Just curious. Thx!

The prob with hormones and swaying is, your body actually physically makes the vast majority of your hormones - you don't EAT estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone, your body builds it out of the fats you eat and it makes them in certain proportions based on cues that it receives from your environment. It just doesn't follow that eating/drinking things with hormones means you'll have higher levels of those hormones (even tho they claim this on some other sites). More likely, eating full-fat dairy sways blue because the fat and cholesterol in the dairy is then converted into testosterone and estrogen by your body.

One thing that may sway in dairy and meat is drug residue. Animals are fed a lot of antibiotics, worm medicines, etc and those things may come through in the meat/milk and may sway in either direction depending on what the medicine is. Interestingly, most of the hormones present in milk are 100% natural cow hormones from lactation and not any added hormones - a lot of the dairy farmers no longer inject their cows with hormones any more because of bad publicity.

Pesticides on fruits and veg are scientifically proven to sway pink when ingested by men - possibly because they raise estrogen and possibly because they lower sperm count/quality or some combo of the two. On another site, people extrapolated this to claim that pesticides sway blue when ingested by women (because they "raise estrogen" which no one even has shown that they do, they've only shown that the gender ratio of offspring of male pesticide operators is girl-heavy) and tell blue swayers not to eat organic because of this, but this has been studied and there has been found to be no change in gender ratio to women exposed to pesticides. (Personally I find the idea that one should eat pesticides to conceive a child of either gender to be a little bit bonkers, but that's just me. ;)) So for women and pesticides, science indicates that they probably don't sway either way...but since I also believe that anything that reduces fertility tends to sway pink, and my brain tells me that pesticide simply can't be good for fertility, I think blue swayers should stick to organic produce and/or wash it well, if they can.