Vegan Cooking Tips with Ann Gentry

Ann Gentry is a chef, restaurateur, food educator and visionary. She opened Real Food Daily in Los Angeles 1993, a totally vegan and organic restaurant that has since spawned another in West Hollywood. Please visit Real Food Daily to find out more about this truly unique restaurant and to learn more about Ann Gentry.

Question:

Is it safe to use non-organic vegetables to make homemade baby food? Or should I be worried about pesticides?

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Answer:

Let me quote from The Green Guide from Mothers and Others For a Livable Planet: "A toxin has much more devasting effects on a developing nervous system. The child's brain, because it's still growing, is much more vulnerable than an adult's brain," says Herbert Needleman, M.D., a professor of pediatrics at the Un. of Pittsburgh Medical School. "And because children play on floors and on the ground, put their hands in their mouth, and eat more fruits and vegetables per pound of body weight, they receive a greater overall exposure to pesticides."

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