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What's in that Salad?
If you are what you eat, or if you're just concerned about eating healthy food, you may want to double-check the ingredients of that lettuce. It turns out that some of the fruits and veggies in your local market may contain more than vitamins and minerals. They may contain toxins that are dangerous to your health. Recently the Environmental Working Group ranked pesticide contamination for 46 fruits and vegetables and ranked contamination of the items. The most contaminated items include imported grapes, nectarines, peaches, pears, potatoes, red raspberries, spinach and strawberries. The 12 least contaminated are asparagus, avocados, bananas, broccoli, cauliflower, corn, kiwi, mangoes, onions, papayas, pineapples and sweet peas. As part of the campaign to help consumers not just at home, but in the market aisle, they have put together a wallet-sized list of the most and least pesticide-contaminated items. It is available online at: http://www.foodnews.org/pdf/walletguide.pdf

Fish is Good for You...Sometimes
Eating fish is all the rage for health-conscious Americans. However, some fish stocks are so depleted that continued harvesting can threaten ocean ecosystems. For more information on which species of fish, and from where, are the best to eat, you can download a handy pocket-sized list of the "best" and "worst." Go to Environmental Defense for the list.